2022 Big Easy Tour

2022 Big Easy Tour season
Duration10 May 2022 (2022-05-10) – 17 November 2022 (2022-11-17)
Number of official events10
Most winsSouth Africa Gerhard Pepler (3)
Order of MeritSouth Africa Gerhard Pepler

The 2022 Big Easy Tour, titled as the 2022 Altron Big Easy Tour for sponsorship reasons, was the 11th season of the Big Easy Tour, the official development tour to the Sunshine Tour.

Altron title sponsorship

In April, it was announced that the tour had signed a title sponsorship agreement with South African technology company Altron, being renamed as the Altron Big Easy Tour.[1]

Schedule

The following table lists official events during the 2022 season.[2]

Date Tournament Location Purse
(R)		 Winner[a] OWGR
points
12 May Altron Big Easy Tour 1 Gauteng 150,000 South Africa Christiaan Maas (a) (1) 3
8 Jun Altron Big Easy Tour 2 Gauteng 150,000 South Korea Kim Dong-kwan (1) 3
15 Jun Altron Big Easy Tour 3 Gauteng 150,000 South Africa Gregory McKay (1) 3
23 Jun Altron Big Easy Tour 4 Gauteng 150,000 South Africa Adam Breen (1) 3
30 Jun Altron Big Easy Tour 5 Gauteng 150,000 South Africa Ricky Hendler (1) 3
6 Jul Altron Big Easy Tour 6 Gauteng 150,000 South Africa Casey Jarvis (a) (1) 3
14 Jul Altron Big Easy Tour 7 Gauteng 150,000 South Africa Gerhard Pepler (2) 3
1 Sep Altron Big Easy Tour 8 Gauteng 150,000 South Africa Ruan de Smidt (2) 0.34
6 Oct Altron Big Easy Tour Play Off Gauteng 150,000 South Africa Gerhard Pepler (3) 0.22
17 Nov Altron Big Easy Tour Final Gauteng 150,000 South Africa Gerhard Pepler (4) 0.17

Order of Merit

The Order of Merit was based on prize money won during the season, calculated in South African rand.[3] The top 10 players on the Order of Merit earned status to play on the 2023–24 Sunshine Tour.[4]

Position Player Prize money (R)
1 South Africa Gerhard Pepler 133,940
2 South Africa Ricky Hendler 99,568
3 South Africa Ruan de Smidt 68,713
4 South Korea Kim Dong-kwan 55,928
5 South Africa Reinhardt Blaauw 54,873
6 South Africa Keelan van Wyk 53,190
7 South Africa Gregory McKay 48,838
8 South Africa Nicholaus Frade 48,793
9 South Africa L. B. Boshoff 46,413
10 South Africa Leon Visser 45,295

Notes

  1. ^ The number in brackets after each winner's name is the number of Big Easy Tour events they had won up to and including that tournament. It is rare for someone to accumulate many wins on the Big Easy Tour as success at this level usually leads to promotion to the Sunshine Tour.

References

  1. ^ "Altron Big Easy Tour a major boost for SA pro golf development". SuperSport. 19 April 2022. Retrieved 8 August 2023.
  2. ^ "Tournament schedule 2022 season". Big Easy Tour. Retrieved 21 June 2023.
  3. ^ "2022 Big Easy Tour Order of Merit". Big Easy Tour. Retrieved 19 February 2023.
  4. ^ "Victorious Pepler leads the way to Sunshine Tour". SuperSport. 17 November 2022. Retrieved 17 November 2022. The other players who have earned their Sunshine Tour playing cards for the new season are Ricky Hendler, Ruan de Smidt, DK Kim, Reinhardt Blaauw, Keelan Van Wyk, Gregory McKay, Nicholaus Frade, LB Boshoff, Adam Breen, Leon Visser and Jonathan Waschefort.