The final tournament of the Sunshine Ladies Tour’s 12th season has drawn a strong field, including winners from both tours this season, who will compete for the most historic trophy in South African women’s professional golf.

The prize money for this year’s tournament has also been increased by €20 000, making it one of Africa’s richest women’s sports events. And the growing interest in this year’s event and women’s golf overall is reflected in the fact that for the first time in Sunshine Ladies Tour history there will be a double pro-am.

Apart from the title of Investec South African Women’s Open champion, this week’s field will also be chasing several added incentives.

With this being the final event of the Sunshine Ladies Tour season, the top-ranked player on the Investec Order of Merit at the end of the season will earn a R200 000 bonus.

Should the winner of this week’s tournament be a South African, she will also earn a R100 000 bonus on top of her first-placed prize money as part of the Investec Homegrown Award celebrating local talent in the game.

And the leading South African on the Investec Order of Merit at the end of this season will win the use of a Renault for a year.

These are all titles South Africa’s Casandra Alexander will be chasing as the current leader on the Investec Order of Merit and the in-form golfer this season, having not finished outside the top five in her past six tournaments on the Sunshine Ladies Tour, including a win and two runners-up finishes.

Alexander has twice finished second on the Investec Order of Merit in 2021 and 2023 and third in 2022, and her consistency this season has brought her to Erinvale in easily the best form of her career.