The DP World Tour continues its 13-month global odyssey on the 2026 Race to Dubai with its first visit to South Africa this season for the Nedbank Golf Challenge in honour of Gary Player.
Year on year, the Nedbank Golf Challenge features a strong international field of dual DP World Tour and PGA TOUR members, alongside some invites welcomed by South African great Gary Player. The headline act is Viktor Hovland, with the European Ryder Cup star – the first Norwegian to win on both the DP World Tour and PGA TOUR – set for his debut on South African soil this week. Another player who is making his first trip to Sun City is Canada’s Nick Taylor, a five-time PGA TOUR winner.
England’s Marco Penge, who finished runner-up to Rory McIlroy in last season’s Race to Dubai Rankings, makes his second start of the Opening Swing on the DP World Tour after playing in the season-opening BMW Australian PGA Championship. Penge is one of seven players who won dual membership with the PGA TOUR at the end of last season to tee it up, joined by Laurie Canter, Kristoffer Reitan, Adrien Saddier, John Parry, Haotong Li and Jordan Smith. Of the 66 players in the field, 58 have won the DP World Tour.
Over the 44 years since its inaugural edition, six South Africans have won the Nedbank Golf Challenge. Three-time winner Ernie Els is the most successful, while Branden Grace was the most recent after claiming the title while it was a Rolex Series event in 2017. This week, 13 home hopes are out to join that list.
First staged in 1981 as the Million Dollar Challenge, the Nedbank Golf Challenge has featured on the DP World Tour schedule since 2014. Since its inception, Gary Player Country Club has played host to the tournament, which today boasts a US $6 million prize fund.
See below the prize money breakdown and check back on Sunday for the final list.
Here’s the prize money breakdown for each golfer at the 2025 Nedbank Golf Challenge
1st – $1,025,000
2nd – $665,000
3rd – $381,000
4th – $302,000
5th – $256,000
6th – $212,000
7th – $182,000
8th – $152,000
9th – $136,000
10th – $121,000
11th – $111,000
12th – $104,000
13th – $98,000
14th – $93,000
15th – $89,000
16th – $85,000
17th – $82,000
18th – $78,000
19th – $75,000
20th – $73,000
21st – $71,000
22nd – $69,000
23rd – $67,000
24th – $65,000
25th – $63,000
26th – $61,000
27th – $59,200
28th – $57,400
29th – $55,600
30th – $53,800
31st – $52,000
32nd – $50,200
33rd – $48,400
34th – $46,600
35th – $44,800
36th – $43,000
37th – $41,700
38th – $40,400
39th – $39,200
40th – $38,000
41st – $36,800
42nd – $35,600
43rd – $34,400
44th – $33,200
45th – $32,000
46th – $30,800
47th – $29,600
48th – $28,400
49th – $27,200
50th – $26,000
51st – $24,800
52nd – $23,600
53rd – $22,400
54th – $21,200
55th – $20,600
56th – $20,000
57th – $19,400
58th – $18,800
59th – $18,200
60th – $17,600
61st – $17,000
62nd – $16,400
63rd – $15,800
64th – $15,200
65th – $14,600
66th – $14,100
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