MTC Namibia PGA Championship
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The MTC Namibia PGA Championship 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 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 ...
. It was founded in 2004, the year after the PGA of Namibia was formed, and played at the
Windhoek Country Club The Windhoek Country Club Resort is a multi-use resort outside of Windhoek, Namibia owned by Legacy Hotels and Resorts International. The Resort was opened in May 1995 and was home to the 1995 Miss Universe Pageant. The resort's golf course is ho ...
, to the south of
Windhoek Windhoek (, , ) is the capital and largest city of Namibia. It is located in central Namibia in the Khomas Highland plateau area, at around above sea level, almost exactly at the country's geographical centre. The population of Windhoek in 20 ...
,
Namibia Namibia (, ), officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa. Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Zambia and Angola to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and ea ...
until 2009 when it moved to Rossmund Golf Club in
Swakopmund Swakopmund (german: Mouth of the Swakop) is a city on the coast of western Namibia, west of the Namibian capital Windhoek via the B2 main road. It is the capital of the Erongo administrative district. The town has 44,725 inhabitants and covers ...
. 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
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, making it the richest event on the winter swing of the tour.


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Sunshine Tour
– official site Former Sunshine Tour events Golf tournaments in Namibia Recurring sporting events established in 2004 Recurring sporting events disestablished in 2011 {{golf-tournament-stub