The Iscor Newcastle Classic was a

golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping wi ...

tournament formerly played on the

Sunshine Tour The Sunshine Tour is a men's professional golf tour based in Southern and East Africa. For much of its early history it was known either as the South African Tour or Sunshine Circuit; through sponsorship deals, it has also been known as the Vod ...

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. It was first played in the 1980s when the Tour was known as the South African Winter Tour. The 1991 champion was

Retief Goosen Retief Goosen (born 3 February 1969) is a South African professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour Champions. He has won two U.S. Opens, in 2001 and 2004, headed the European Tour Order of Merit in 2001 and 2002, and was in the top ten of th ...

, who made the Newcastle Classic his first professional win. Goosen would go on to win two U.S. Opens. The last Newcastle Classic was played in the 1996/1997 season.

Winners

*1996 John Nelson *1995

Steve van Vuuren Stephen Daniel van Vuuren (born 26 September 1959) is a South African professional golfer who currently plays on the Sunshine Tour. He won 7 times on the Sunshine Tour between 1994 and 2007. Van Vuuren was born Germiston, Gauteng, South Africa. ...

*1994

Ian Hutchings Ian Guy Hutchings (born 26 March 1968) is a professional golfer from Zimbabwe who lives in South Africa. He is currently a member of the Sunshine Tour and a former member of the Canadian Tour PGA Tour Canada, commonly referred to as the Canad ...

*1993

Brett Liddle Brett Anthony Liddle (born 11 March 1970) 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 The Sunshine Tour is a men's professional golf ...

*1992 Derek James1992 Newcastle final result
*1991

*1990 *1989

Des Terblanche Desmond Terblanche (born 27 October 1965) is a South African professional golfer who plays currently on the Sunshine Tour. He has won 12 times on the Sunshine Tour, along with three wins on the Asian Tour. Terblanche was born in Vryburg, South ...

References

{{reflist Golf tournaments in South Africa Former Sunshine Tour events