The Sunshine Ladies Tour has announced another strong addition to its 2024 season, with Konica Minolta South Africa becoming an official sponsor of the Tour as the company seeks to drive a powerful message of supporting women in sports.
The €300 000 Joburg Ladies Open will tee off as the first of two Sunshine Ladies Tour events co-sanctioned with the Ladies European Tour at Modderfontein Golf Club from 18-21 April, and with a powerful message to the world of how this tournament continues to fight for “Dignity for a Girl Child”.
Judging by her two previous appearances on the Sunshine Ladies Tour, one could tell young Gabrielle Venter was poised for big things and the 19-year-old duly delivered on Friday when she won the Standard Bank Ladies Open in a thrilling battle with the experienced Kylie Henry at Royal Cape Golf Club.
The Sunshine Ladies Tour returns to the Western Cape this week with the Standard Bank Ladies Open hosted by the City of Cape Town at Royal Cape Golf Club, and stalwart Stacy Bregman is eager to continue the steady improvement she has shown this season and mount a strong defence of her title.
Renault South Africa, a subsidiary of Motus Group, has signed a new three-year deal as the Official Vehicle Partner of the Sunshine Ladies Tour.
South Africa’s Sunshine Ladies Tour professionals are eager to grab the silverware after the overseas contingent’s conquest of the opening two tournaments this season when the new Fidelity ADT Ladies Challenge gets underway at Blue Valley Golf Estate from Wednesday. (more…)
The influx of international golfers on the Sunshine Ladies Tour is making it harder for South Africa’s women professionals to contend at home, but it’s a challenge that Lee-Anne Pace has welcomed.
South African golf will have one of its most inclusive seasons in history with the 2024 Sunshine Ladies Tour set to feature a strong schedule of its own as well as representation on the men’s Sunshine Tour.
Cara Gorlei struck an early blow for the Sunshine Ladies Tour professionals when she won the Vodacom Origins of Golf Zebula Pro-Am, and she’ll take this confidence into the main tournament as she joins her fellow women’s professionals when they tee it up alongside their Sunshine Tour counterparts in the same tournament, for the same prize money, and for the first time in South African professional golf on Friday.
There could be no better celebration in the week of National Women’s Day than the presence of the Sunshine Ladies Tour professionals in the field alongside their Sunshine Tour counterparts and making history by competing for the same R2 million prize money at this week’s first Vodacom Origins of Golf tournament at Zebula Country Club.