The Iscor Newcastle Classic was a golf

Golf

Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....

 tournament formerly played on the Sunshine Tour

Sunshine Tour

The Sunshine Tour is a men's professional golf tour based in Southern Africa. For much of its history it was known either as the South African Tour or the FNB Tour, but it rebranded itself in an attempt to broaden its appeal...

 in South Africa

South Africa

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. It was first played in the 1980s when the Tour was known as the South African Winter Tour. The 1991 champion was Retief Goosen

Retief Goosen

Retief Goosen is a South African professional golfer who has been in the top ten in the Official World Golf Rankings for over 250 weeks between 2001 and 2007. His main achievements have been two U.S...

, who made the Newcastle Classic his first professional win. Goosen would go on to win two U.S. Opens

U.S. Open (golf)

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. The last Newcastle Classic was played in the 1996/1997 season.

Winners

• 1996   John Nelson
• 1995   Steve Van Vuuren
  Steve van Vuuren
  Stephen Daniel van Vuuren is a South African professional golfer who currently plays on the Sunshine Tour. He won 7 times on the Sunshine Tour between 1994 and 2007....
  
  
• 1994     Ian Hutchings
  Ian Hutchings
  Ian Guy Hutchings is a professional golfer from Zimbabwe who currently lives in South Africa. He is currently a member of the Sunshine Tour and a former member of the Canadian Tour. He collected two wins in South Africa in 1994 and 1996, and three wins in Canada, along with three other...
  
  
• 1993   Brett Liddle
  Brett Liddle
  Brett Anthony Liddle is a professional golfer from South Africa.Liddle was born in Boksburg. He turned professional in 1992 and picked up his first win on the Sunshine Tour a year later. He would add five more wins between then and 2000...
  
  
• 1992   Derek James
  Derek James
  Derek James is a South African professional golfer currently playing on the Sunshine Tour.James was born in Durban and currently lives in Southbroom with his wife and two children. He was the 1984 South African Strokeplay champion, his biggest amateur win. He turned professional later that year...
  
  
• 1991   Retief Goosen
  Retief Goosen
  Retief Goosen is a South African professional golfer who has been in the top ten in the Official World Golf Rankings for over 250 weeks between 2001 and 2007. His main achievements have been two U.S...
  
  
• 1990
• 1989   Des Terblanche
  Des Terblanche
  Desmond Terblanche is a South African professional golfer who plays currently on the Sunshine Tour. He has won 12 times on the Sunshine Tour, along with three wins on the Asian Tour....