The Platinum 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 on the
Sunshine Tour. It was founded in 1995, and was played at the nine-hole Mooinooi Golf Club,
North West Province
North West is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Mahikeng. The province is located to the west of the major population centre of Gauteng and south of Botswana.
History
North West was incorporated after the end of Apartheid in 1994, an ...
,
South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countri ...
, although the first event had to be moved to Rustenburg when the greens at Mooinooi were vandalised.
The tournament was traditionally held in October but was moved to March in 2012 and September in 2013. The prize fund was
R500,000.
Winners
References
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External links
Sunshine Tour- official site
Mooinooi Golf Club
Former Sunshine Tour events
Golf tournaments in South Africa
Sport in North West (South African province)
Recurring sporting events established in 1995
Recurring sporting events disestablished in 2013