The Cock of The North was a golf tournament held in

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. It was part of 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 Southern Africa Tour or Sunshine Circuit; through sponsorship deals, it has also been known as the F ...

in 2000 and 2001. The tournament was founded in 1954 and was held at the Ndola Golf Club in

Ndola Ndola is the third largest city in Zambia in terms of size and population, with a population of 627,503 (''2022 census''), after the capital, Lusaka, and Kitwe, and the second largest in terms of infrastructure development after Lusaka. It is the I ...

. Founded in 1954, the tournament was held annually until 1977, when the European Tournament Players Division took over running of the

Safari Circuit The Safari Circuit, or Safari Tour, was a small professional golf tour based in West and East Africa that ran from the 1970s through into the 1990s. From 1977, the tour was organised by the PGA European Tour and from 1991 the tournaments were incl ...

. It was then only held every other year, alternating on the schedule with the

Mufulira Open The Mufulira Open was a men's professional golf tournament played at Mufulira Golf Club in Mufulira, Zambia between 1970 and 1984. It was one of three Zambian events on the Safari Circuit schedule. The Mufulira Open was founded a year after the L ...

, until 1985, although it was incorporated with the

Zambia Open The Zambia Open is a men's professional golf tournament played in Zambia, that has been part of the Sunshine Tour since 1996, and was co-sanctioned by the European-based Challenge Tour from 2001 to 2004. It was also an event on the Challenge Tou ...

in 1977 and 1979, and not held in 1983. The tournament was revived in 2000 as part of the Sunshine Tour, before being cancelled in 2002 due to lack of sponsorship. ''Note: The records from the Ndola Golf Club show that

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Tommy Horton Thomas Alfred Horton, (16 June 1941 – 7 December 2017) was an English professional golfer. He finished in the top ten of the Open Championship four times, won a number of important tournaments both before and after the founding of the Europe ...

, and Brian Barnes won the tournament in 1972, 1975, 1977, and 1979 respectively. However, in those years the

was held at the Ndola Golf Club and there was no separate Cock o' the North tournament.''

Winners

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Ndola Golf Club history
Former Sunshine Tour events Safari Circuit events Golf tournaments in Zambia Recurring sporting events established in 1954 Recurring sporting events disestablished in 2001 1954 establishments in Northern Rhodesia 2001 disestablishments in Zambia