The 2018 Big Easy Tour was the eighth season of the Big Easy Tour, the official development tour to the Sunshine Tour.
| Duration | 16 April 2018 – 14 December 2019 |
|---|---|
| Number of official events | 16 |
| Most wins |  Matt Bright (2) Cameron Moralee (2) Dylan Mostert (2) |
| Order of Merit | Dylan Kok |
← 2017 2019 → | |
OWGR inclusion
editIn August 2017, the Official World Golf Ranking announced that all Big Easy Tour events would be awarded points, beginning with the Big Easy Challenge 1.[1]
Schedule
editThe following table lists official events during the 2018 season.[2]
| Date | Tournament | Location | Purse (R) |
Winner[a] | OWGR points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 Apr | Big Easy Challenge 1 | Gauteng | 75,000 | Dylan Mostert (1)
|
3 |
| 16 May | Big Easy Challenge 2 | North West | 75,000 | Duane Keun (1)
|
3 |
| 23 May | Big Easy Challenge 3 | Gauteng | 75,000 | Dylan Mostert (2)
|
3 |
| 6 Jun | Big Easy Challenge 4 | Gauteng | 75,000 | Otto van Buynder (a) (1)
|
3 |
| 27 Jun | Big Easy Challenge 5 | Gauteng | 75,000 | Matt Bright (1)
|
3 |
| 4 Jul | Big Easy Challenge 6 | Gauteng | 75,000 | Matt Bright (2)
|
3 |
| 8 Aug | Big Easy Challenge 7 | Gauteng | 75,000 | Paul Boshoff (1)
|
3 |
| 22 Aug | Big Easy Challenge 8 | Gauteng | 75,000 | Cameron Moralee (1)
|
3 |
| 5 Sep | Big Easy Challenge 9 | Gauteng | 75,000 |  Benjamin Follett-Smith (1)
|
3 |
| 19 Sep | Big Easy Challenge 10 | Gauteng | 75,000 |  Stuart Smith (1)
|
3 |
| 10 Oct | Big Easy Challenge 11 | Gauteng | 75,000 | Albert Venter (1)
|
3 |
| 24 Oct | Big Easy Challenge 12 | Gauteng | 75,000 | Juran Dreyer (1)
|
3 |
| 31 Oct | Big Easy Challenge 13 | Gauteng | 75,000 | Cameron Moralee (2)
|
3 |
| 14 Nov | Big Easy Challenge 14 | Gauteng | 75,000 | Eric Nel (1)
|
3 |
| 28 Nov | Big Easy Challenge 15 | Gauteng | 75,000 | Thriston Lawrence (1)
|
3 |
| 14 Dec | Big Easy Tour Championship | Gauteng | 200,000 | Luke Brown (1)
|
3 |
Order of Merit
editThe 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 2019–20 Sunshine Tour.[4]
| Position | Player | Prize money (R) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dylan Kok |
58,789 |
| 2 | Luke Brown |
51,114 |
| 3 | Matt Bright |
50,274 |
| 4 | Juran Dreyer |
47,857 |
| 5 | Dylan Mostert |
37,073 |
| 6 | Ruan Korb |
35,805 |
| 7 |  Kim Dong-kwan |
34,792 |
| 8 | Cameron Moralee |
33,967 |
| 9 | Paul Boshoff |
32,921 |
| 10 | Hendrikus Stoop |
32,443 |
Notes
edit- ^ 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
edit- ^ "OWGR Board Announcement". Official World Golf Ranking. 7 August 2017. Retrieved 13 June 2023.
- ^ "Tournament schedule 2018 season". Big Easy Tour. Retrieved 21 June 2023.
- ^ "2018 Big Easy Tour Order of Merit". Big Easy Tour. Retrieved 19 February 2023.
- ^ "Double joy for Brown and Kok in Tour Champs". Big Easy Tour. Retrieved 16 December 2018.