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Tournament History - SA Open Championship
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Tournament History - SA Open Championship

In December 2011 Ernie Els held off the challenge of Retief Goosen to capture the South African Open Championship for the fifth time in the 100th staging of the event at Durban Country Club. Richie Ramsay won his first European Tour title at the 2010 South African Open Championship, beating Shiv Kapur in a play-off at Pearl Valley Golf Estates, where the championship had been since 2008. Ramsay’s triumph broke the eight-year stranglehold South Africans had on the tournament as it had had a home winner every year since 2002. Richard Sterne was the champion in 2009 and before him were James Kingston, Ernie Els, Retief Goosen, Tim Clark (twice, in 2005 and 2002) and Trevor Immelman (2003 and 2004).