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MTC Namibia PGA Championship

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MTC Namibia PGA Championship
Tournament information
LocationWindhoek, Namibia
Established2004
Course(s)Windhoek Country Club
Par71
Length7,187 yards (6,572 m)
Tour(s)Sunshine Tour
FormatStroke play
Prize fundR 1,200,000
Month playedNovember
Final year2011
Tournament record score
Aggregate54 holes:
195 Keith Horne (2008)
72 holes:
268 J. G. Claassen (2011)
To par54 holes:
−18 as above
72 holes:
−16 as above
Final champion
South Africa J. G. Claassen
Location map
Windhoek CC is located in Namibia
Windhoek CC
Windhoek CC
Location in Namibia

The MTC Namibia PGA Championship was a golf tournament on the Sunshine Tour. It was founded in 2004, the year after the PGA of Namibia was formed, and played at the Windhoek Country Club, to the south of Windhoek, Namibia until 2009 when it moved to Rossmund Golf Club in Swakopmund. After not being played in 2010, it moved back to Windhoek in 2011.

In 2008, the event was played over 72 holes for the first time, having previously been contested over just three rounds, with a prize fund of 1 million rand, making it the richest event on the winter swing of the tour.[1]

Winners

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Year Winner Score To par Margin of
victory
Runner(s)-up
2011 South Africa J. G. Claassen 268 −16 1 stroke South Africa Christiaan Basson
2010: No tournament
2009 South Africa Hennie Otto 280 −8 Playoff South Africa Titch Moore
2008 Zimbabwe Tongoona Charamba 270 −14 Playoff South Africa Merrick Bremner
South Africa Nic Henning
2007 South Africa Keith Horne 195 −18 5 strokes Scotland Doug McGuigan
South Africa Hennie Otto
South Africa Ulrich van den Berg
2006 South Africa Anton Haig 196 −17 1 stroke South Africa Thomas Aiken
2005 South Africa Thomas Aiken 198 −15 4 strokes South Africa Michiel Bothma
Zimbabwe Sean Farrell
South Africa Werner Geyer
South Africa Keith Horne
2004 South Africa Mark Murless 202 −11 2 strokes South Africa Bradley Davison
Zimbabwe Sean Farrell

References

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  1. ^ "R1-million beckons for field in MTC Namibia PGA Championship". Sunshine Tour. 4 November 2008. Archived from the original on 4 February 2013. Retrieved 8 November 2008.
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