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England's Tyrrell Hatton tees off the 4th , during day three of the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship at the Old Course, St. Andrews, Scotland, Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024.
The tournament was founded in 2000, but its origins lie in Dunhill's sponsorship of the South African PGA Championship between 1995 and 1999. Following the 1999 Alfred Dunhill PGA Championship, the company decided to discontinue their association with the South African PGA, and create their own stand alone tournament.
Originally called the Dunhill Links Championship, the event was introduced in 2001 as a replacement for the Alfred Dunhill Cup, a three-man team tournament which became marginalised when the long established World Cup of Golf was given enhanced status as part of the World Golf Championships in 2000, becoming the WGC-World Cup.
The Dunhill Cup was in competition with the World Cup, a similar event for two-man teams. [1] In 2000, the World Cup's status was enhanced by its inclusion in the World Golf Championships series, and in 2001 the promoters of the Alfred Dunhill Cup replaced it with the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship , which is a celebrity pro-am tournament ...
His most recent start was a T24 at the Alfred Dunhill Championship to close out 2024, but McKibbin did finish T10 at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship and T11 at the DP World Tour Championship.
The Alfred Dunhill Links Championship is played over three courses – the Old Course at St Andrews, the Championship Course, Carnoustie Golf Links and Kingsbarns Golf Links. The tournament has a format incorporating two separate competitions – an individual professional tournament and a team competition where amateur golfers play alongside ...
Strydom won the 2019 Vodacom Origins of Golf at Sishen that was part of the 2019–20 Sunshine Tour. [1]In December 2022, Strydom won the Alfred Dunhill Championship, part of the 2023 European Tour and the 2022–23 Sunshine Tour, where he set a course record in the third round.
The championship was initially contested over just 36 holes until 1908, when it was extended to become a 72-hole tournament. [1] Although non-whites had played in the South African Open before, most notably when Papwa Sewgolum finished second in 1963, it was not until 1972 that black golfers were allowed to compete.