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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.
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 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 ...
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.
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.
Winning score Margin of victory Runner(s)-up 1 20 Mar 2022: Steyn City Championship 1: −25 (64-62-67-70=263) 3 strokes Dean Burmester: 2 15 Dec 2024 (2025 season) Alfred Dunhill Championship 1: −13 (67-70-71-67=275) 1 stroke Marcus Kinhult, John Parry, Ryan van Velzen
In 2021, the Alfred Dunhill Championship was scheduled to be the flagship event for the second consecutive year. However due to the cancellation of the tournament, the South African Open regained its flagship event status for the first time since the January 2020 event.