Alfred Dunhill Championship

VENUE: Leopard Creek GC DATE: Thursday 26th – 29th November 2020 CLOSING DATE: Thursday 5th November 2020 FIELD: 156 Players ET TOURNAMENT DIRECTOR: TBC ST TOURNAMENT DIRECTOR: Pauli van Meersbergen ([email protected]) QUALIFYING ROUND DATE: Tuesday 24th November 2020 QUALIFYING ROUND VENUE: ERPM GC PRIZE MONEY: R29 000 000 PRE Q SPOTS: 10 Spots (The Pre Q is only open to Sunshine Tour members)

ELIGIBILITY: a) The leading 70 available players from the Exemption Category list; b) The leading 71 available players from the 2020/21 Sunshine Tour Exemption Categories, with the exception of invitations; c) A maximum of 5 invitations by the Sunshine Tour to Transformation Players under the terms of the Sunshine Tour Members General Regulations; d) The leading available Ranked Member or European Ranked Member not otherwise exempt above from within the top 100 of the 2020 Race to Dubai Rankings as of the conclusion of the . e) A maximum of 9 Invitations nominated by the sponsor;

Eligibility Notes: (i) The following policy will be adopted at close of entries for players who are members of and exempt through both the Sunshine Tour and the European Tour: The highest ranked dual Member on the European Tour Exemption Category list will be allocated to (b) above, the second highest ranked dual Member will be allocated to (a) above. This alternate allocation will be repeated until all such exempt dual Members are allocated to one Tour or the other. (ii) If there are less than 71 Players entered through (a) above, then the remaining spots will be made available to (b) (iii) If there are less than 9 players entered through (e) above then the remaining spots will be added to each Tour’s allocation in (a) or (b) above, with the first spot being allocated to (b) and the next spot being allocated to (a). This alternate allocation will be repeated until all unused invite spots have been allocated to one Tour or the other (iv) In the event of a tie in (d) above, this will be determined using the following criteria in order. (a) Highest 2020 European Tour Exemption Category list ranking; if no tied Player has such a ranking then (b) Highest 2020 European Challenge Tour Exemption Category list ranking. (v) If the spot in (d) is unused this will be returned to (a) above. (vi) When a Player who is a member of both Tours becomes exempt he will remain allocated to the Tour under which he first became Exempt, even if he subsequently becomes Exempt through his “home” Tour.

PRO-AM: Pre-tournament pro-am on Tuesday 24th November

FORMAT: 72 holes stroke play with a cut after 2 rounds to the leading 65 professionals and ties