The Platinum Classic is a golf

Golf

Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....

 tournament on the Sunshine Tour

Sunshine Tour

The Sunshine Tour is a men's professional golf tour based in Southern Africa. For much of its history it was known either as the South African Tour or the FNB Tour, but it rebranded itself in an attempt to broaden its appeal...

. It was founded in 1995, and is played at the nine hole Mooinooi Golf Club, North West Province

North West (South African province)

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, South Africa

South Africa

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, although the first event had to be moved to Rustenburg when the greens at Mooinooi were vandalised.

The tournament is currently held in October every year, with a prize fund in 2011 of R

South African rand

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500,000.

Winners

Year	Season	Winner	Score
Platinum Classic
2011	2011	Hennie Otto Hennie Otto Hendrik Johannes "Hennie" Otto is a South African professional golfer.Otto was born in Boksburg. He has played golf on the European Tour since 2000 having graduated from the Challenge Tour, but has only finished within the top 100 on the Order of Merit twice, in 2003 when he finished tied for...	199 (-17)
2010	2010	Jean Hugo	196 (-20)
2009	2009	Darren Fichardt Darren Fichardt Darren Clive Fichardt is a South African professional golfer.Fichardt was born in Pretoria and grew up in Centurion, Gauteng. He attended Sutherland High School from 1988 to 1993, where his talent for golf was nurtured...	201 (-15)
2008	2008	Thomas Aiken Thomas Aiken Thomas Edward Aiken is a South African professional golfer who plays on the European Tour.Following a successful amateur career, which included being named the South African Amateur of the Year in 2001, Aiken turned professional at the start of 2002. In 2004, he won three times on the Sunshine...	197 (-19)
2007	2007	Louis Oosthuizen Louis Oosthuizen Lodewicus Theodorus "Louis" Oosthuizen is a South African professional golfer, who won the 2010 Open Championship.-Early life and career:...	205 (-11)
2006	2006–07	Vaughn Groenewald	202 (-14)
2005	2005–06	Jaco van Zyl Jaco van Zyl Jaco Phillipus van Zyl is a professional golfer from South Africa.Van Zyl was born in Pretoria. He won the South African Amateur Championship in 2000 and turned professional the following year, immediately joining the Sunshine Tour...	198 (-18)
2004	2004–05	Titch Moore Titch Moore Trevor Richard "Titch" Moore is a South African professional golfer. He currently plays on the Sunshine Tour, where he has won seven times between 2000 and 2007....	200 (-16)
2003	2003–04	Doug McGuigan Doug McGuigan Douglas Gordon McGuigan is a professional golfer from South Africa. He has won four times on the Sunshine Tour between 2003 and 2009.McGuigan was born in Durban, and currently resides in Johannesburg...	199 (-17)
2002	2002–03	Titch Moore Titch Moore Trevor Richard "Titch" Moore is a South African professional golfer. He currently plays on the Sunshine Tour, where he has won seven times between 2000 and 2007....	198 (-18)
2001	2001–02	Roger Wessels Roger Wessels Roger Mark Wessels is a South African professional golfer.Wessels was born in Port Elizabeth. He turned professional at a relatively late age in 1987, without having had any major successes as an amateur. Despite that, he won several times on the Southern Africa Tour, latterly the Sunshine Tour,...	201 (-15)
2000	2000–01	Desvonde Botes Desvonde Botes Desvonde Pierre Botes is a South African professional golfer.Botes was born in Pretoria. After winning the South African Amateur Championship in 1991 at the age of 16 years and 5 months, 20 days younger than the record set by Ernie Els, Botes turned professional at the start of 1992...	202 (-14)
1999	1999–00	Bobby Lincoln Bobby Lincoln Robert James Lincoln is a South African professional golfer who was a regular winner on the Southern African Tour from 1985 to 2000, and now plays on the European Seniors Tour....	201 (-15)
1998	1998–99	Bobby Lincoln Bobby Lincoln Robert James Lincoln is a South African professional golfer who was a regular winner on the Southern African Tour from 1985 to 2000, and now plays on the European Seniors Tour....	202 (-14)
1998	1997–98	Desvonde Botes Desvonde Botes Desvonde Pierre Botes is a South African professional golfer.Botes was born in Pretoria. After winning the South African Amateur Championship in 1991 at the age of 16 years and 5 months, 20 days younger than the record set by Ernie Els, Botes turned professional at the start of 1992...	199 (-17)
1996	1996–97	Mark Murless	204 (-12)
Rustenburg Classic
1995	1995–96	Brett Liddle Brett Liddle Brett Anthony Liddle is a professional golfer from South Africa.Liddle was born in Boksburg. He turned professional in 1992 and picked up his first win on the Sunshine Tour a year later. He would add five more wins between then and 2000...	208 (-8)

External links

• Sunshine Tour - official site
• Mooinooi Golf Club