2022 Investec South African Open Championship: Field, schedule, prize money and more

Modified Nov 28, 2022 13:46 GMT

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The 2022 Investec South African Open is slated to begin on Thursday, December 1. The latest event on the European Tour is expected to be extremely competitive and will be one of the final European Tour events of 2022.

It will begin on December 1 and last through December 4. It will take place at the Gary Player Golf Course. Here's what you need to know about the upcoming event, including how much money is at stake.

Player field for the South African Open

125 golfers are slated to take part in this event. Here's the full field of participants for the Investec South African Open:

Jaco Ahlers
Thomas Aiken
Louis Albertse
Marcus Armitage
John Axelsen
Nick Bachem
Matthew Baldwin
Oliver Bekker
Jacques Blaauw
Merrick Bremner
Christoffer Bring
Jonathan Broomhead
Daniel Brown
Luke Brown
Heinrich Bruiners
Dean Burmester
Jorge Campillo
Todd Clements
Aaron Cockerill
George Coetzee
Estiaan Conradie
Ruan Conradie
Sean Crocker
Mj Daffue
Jens Dantorp
Keenan Davidse
Kyle De Beer
Louis De Jager
Alejandro Del Rey
Wynand Dingle
Cj Du Plessis
Hennie Du Plessis
James Hart Du Preez
Bryce Easton
Tobias Edén
Rhys Enoch
Philip Eriksson
Stephen Ferreira
Darren Fichardt
Ross Fisher
Grant Forrest
Simon Forsström
Jeremy Freiburghaus
Dylan Frittelli
Daniel Gavins
Deon Germishuys
Branden Grace
Mateusz Gradecki
Alex Haindl
Chase Hanna
Joachim B Hansen
Angel Hidalgo
Jean Hugo
Oliver Hundebøll
Gary Hurley
Sam Hutsby
Scott Jamieson
Luke Jerling
Kristian Krogh Johannessen
Andrew Johnston
Rupert Kaminski
Anton Karlsson
Nathan Kimsey
Alexander Knappe
Jeong Weon Ko
Ruan Korb
Jbe Kruger
Jacques Kruyswijk
Romain Langasque
Thriston Lawrence
Joshua Lee
Mikael Lindberg
Zander Lombard
Herman Loubser
Joost Luiten
Christian Maas
Tom Mckibbin
Anthony Michael
Edoardo Molinari
Pieter Moolman
James Morrison
Dylan Mostert
Dylan Naidoo
Lukas Nemecz
Wilco Nienaber
Shaun Norris
Adrian Otaegui
Hennie Otto
Michael G Palmer
Aldrich Potgieter
Yurav Premlall
Jaco Prinsloo
Tapio Pulkkanen
David Ravetto
Jc Ritchie
Martin Rohwer
Lyle Rowe
Jayden Schaper
Matti Schmid
Freddy Schott
Charl Schwartzel
Robin Sciot-Siegrist
Martin Simonsen
Combrinck Smit
Clément Sordet
Matthew Southgate
Richard Sterne
Brandon Stone
Graeme Storm
Jean-Paul Strydom
Ockie Strydom
Tristen Strydom
Santiago Tarrio
Sami Välimäki
Rourke Van Der Spuy
Darius Van Driel
Erik Van Rooyen
Daniel Van Tonder
Jaco Van Zyl
Albert Venter
Mj Viljoen
Justin Walters
Marc Warren
Dale Whitnell
Ashun Wu

None of these golfers are currently ranked in the world's top 50.

Prize money for the South African Championship

The reported prize purse for this European Tour event is €1,084,353, which translates to roughly $1,311,861 USD.

This is a fairly hefty prize purse, though it pales in comparison to some of the top competitions on the PGA Tour, which can carry prize purses of more than $5 million.

It also doesn't compare to the money handed out for LIV Golf events, but even the PGA Tour pales in comparison to the money over there.

The prize will be split among top performers. However, there are 125 players and many will walk away without much. On the other hand, those who do well can receive a solid prize for their efforts in the 2022 South African Championship.

Edited by Ankush Das