2024–25 Big Easy Tour
| Duration | 25 June 2024 – 14 March 2025 |
|---|---|
| Number of official events | 12 |
| Most wins | Paul Boshoff (2) Warwick Purchase (2) |
| Order of Merit | Warwick Purchase |
← 2023–24 2025–26 → | |
The 2024–25 Big Easy Tour, titled as the 2024–25 Betway Big Easy Tour for sponsorship reasons, was the 13th season of the Big Easy Tour, the official development tour to the Sunshine Tour.
Betway title sponsorship
In June 2024, it was announced that the tour had signed a title sponsorship agreement with Betway, being renamed as the Betway Big Easy Tour.[1]
Schedule
The following table lists official events during the 2024–25 season.[2]
| Date | Tournament | Location | Purse (R) |
Winner[a] | OWGR points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 Jun | Betway Big Easy Tour 1 | Gauteng | 150,000 | Leon Vorster (2) | 0.37 |
| 18 Jul | Betway Big Easy Tour 2 | Gauteng | 150,000 | Marcel Steyn Scholtz (1) | 0.57 |
| 7 Aug | Betway Big Easy Tour 3 | Gauteng | 150,000 | Warwick Purchase (1) | 0.46 |
| 26 Sep | Betway Big Easy Tour 4 | Gauteng | 150,000 | Slade Pickering (3) | 0.30 |
| 24 Oct | Betway Big Easy Tour 5 | Gauteng | 150,000 | Graham van der Merwe (1) | 0.33 |
| 7 Nov | Betway Big Easy Tour 6 | Gauteng | 150,000 | Musiwalo Nethunzwi (2) | 0.32 |
| 21 Nov | Betway Big Easy Tour 7 | Gauteng | 150,000 | Paul Boshoff (2) | 0.24 |
| 28 Nov | Betway Big Easy Tour 8 | Gauteng | 150,000 | Paul Boshoff (3) | 0.35 |
| 16 Jan | Betway Big Easy Tour 9 | Gauteng | 150,000 | Luke Mayo (1) | 0.37 |
| 23 Jan | Betway Big Easy Tour 10 | Gauteng | 150,000 | Ryan van der Klis (1) | 0.40 |
| 21 Feb | Betway Big Easy Tour Play Off | Gauteng | 150,000 | Joe Knox (1) | 0.25 |
| 14 Mar | Betway Big Easy Tour Final | Gauteng | 300,000 | Warwick Purchase (2) | 0.28 |
Order of Merit
The Order of Merit was based on tournament results during the season, calculated using a points-based system.[3] The top 12 players on the Order of Merit (not otherwise exempt) earned status to play on the 2025–26 Sunshine Tour.[4]
| Position | Player | Points |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Warwick Purchase | 888 |
| 2 | Joe Knox | 799 |
| 3 | Graham van der Merwe | 742 |
| 4 | Paul Boshoff | 694 |
| 5 | Xander Basson | 640 |
| 6 | Ulrich van den Berg | 621 |
| 7 | Slade Pickering | 610 |
| 8 | Luke Mayo | 577 |
| 9 | Ryan van der Klis | 599 |
| 10 | Musiwalo Nethunzwi | 452 |
| 11 | Leon Vorster | 427 |
| 12 | Eric Wowor | 405 |
| 13 | Marcel Steyn Scholtz | 386 |
Notes
- ^ The number in brackets after each winner's name is the number of Big Easy Tour events they had won up to and including that tournament. It is rare for someone to accumulate many wins on the Big Easy Tour as success at this level usually leads to promotion to the Sunshine Tour.
References
- ^ "Betway takes over Big Easy Tour naming rights". Big Easy Tour. 24 June 2024. Retrieved 25 June 2024.
- ^ "2024/25 Tournament schedule". Big Easy Tour. Retrieved 3 June 2024.
- ^ "2024/25 Order of Merit". Big Easy Tour. Retrieved 15 March 2025.
- ^ Golf Africa [@golf.africa]; (14 March 2025). "Class of 2025... congratulations to the top 12 golfers on the 2025 Betway Big Easy Tour Order of Merit who secured tour cards on next season's Sunshine Tour led by Warwick Purchase 🇿🇦 (888.08 points) who secured top spot". Retrieved 15 March 2025 – via Instagram.