Take a look at the history of the Alfred Dunhill Championship through some of the numbers that matter.
15 – The number of different names that have been crowned Alfred Dunhill Championship winners in the 19 tournaments to date.
2 – Only two players have won the tournament on more than one occasion. Spaniard Pablo Martin registered back-to-back triumphs in 2009 and 2010, while South African Charl Schwartzel has come out on top no less than four times, first winning in December 2004 and then taking the title in 2012, 2013 and 2015.
264 – The tournament record score which is held by Schwartzel. He also boasts the biggest margin of victory in the history of the tournament, winning by 12 shots in 2012.
4 – Number of Major winners who have also won the Alfred Dunhill Championship. Schwartzel and Australian Adam Scott have both added The Masters to their successes at Leopard Creek. The 2002 champion Justin Rose has gone on to amass several titles to complement his 2013 US Open victory. The most decorated of all Alfred Dunhill Championship winners is local favourite Ernie Els. The Big Easy has four Majors to his name, winning both the US Open and Open Championship on two occasions.
6 – South Africans have half a dozen local wins with Richard Sterne, Garth Mulroy, Branden Grace and Brandon Stone joining fellow countrymen Schwartzel and Els in lifting the iconic Leopard trophy.
1 – Only Branden Grace has won both the Alfred Dunhill Championship and its sister event, the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship.
3 – The Alfred Dunhill Championship been decided by a playoff on three occasions, while a further five tournaments have been won by just a single stroke.
7,287 – The total distance in yards of the Leopard Creek Country Club course. By way of comparison, the Old Course at St Andrews, home of the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship, is almost exactly the same distance – at 7,305 yards.
3 – 2012 was a special year with a trio of holes-in-one recorded and all of them on the same par-three 12th hole. South African Keith Horne claimed two aces in successive days, using the same club – an 8-iron. And in the final round that year, Magnus Carlsson pulled off the third hole-in-one.
100 – Garth Mulroy’s triumph in the 2011 event made him the 100th South African to win in European Tour history.
14 – The number of months it took for sculptor Dylan Lewis to cast all 18 of the bronze leopards that adorn each tee at Leopard Creek.
