That inaugural 1981 edition saw Johny Miller get the better of Seve Ballesteros in a playoff in a field that included Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player and Lee Trevino. It became a Sunshine Tour event in 2006 – by which time the field size had risen to twelve – and earned a further upgrade in status in 2013, when it became a part of the DP World Tour schedule at which point the fields increased to thirty participants and have been sixty-plus since 2016. The Nedbank Golf Challenge started off life as the Nedbank Million Dollar Challenge in 1981 - an unofficial and exclusive five-man stroke play event.
The tournament provides a final chance for players to position themselves well inside that top 50 on the Race to Dubai, that will get them into the season-ending DP World Tour Championship next week.
This week, the DP World Tour reaches its penultimate event of the 2022/23 season, as we head to Gary Player Country Club at Sun City in South Africa, for the 41 st edition of the Nedbank Golf Challenge.
