Mount Edgecombe Trophy
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The Mount Edgecombe Trophy 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 that was 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...

. Formed in 1993, it included a deep international field of not only Africans, but drawing names like Vijay Singh
Vijay Singh
Vijay Singh, CF , nicknamed "The Big Fijian", is a Fijian professional golfer who was Number 1 in the Official World Golf Rankings for 32 weeks in 2004 and 2005. He has won three major championships and was the leading PGA Tour money winner in 2003, 2004 and 2008...

, whose best finish in the event was a tie for 3rd in 1993. It was one of the richest purses on the Sunshine Tour at the time with a first place winners share of R
South African rand
The rand is the currency of South Africa. It takes its name from the Witwatersrand , the ridge upon which Johannesburg is built and where most of South Africa's gold deposits were found. The rand has the symbol "R" and is subdivided into 100 cents, symbol "c"...

71,100. The inaugural champions 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...

. The 1994 champion was Bruce Vaughan
Bruce Vaughan
Bruce Lloyd Vaughan is an American professional golfer.Vaughan was born in Kankakee, Illinois. He didn't start playing golf until he was 20 and working as a firefighter in Hutchinson, Kansas....

, the first American to win the event. Vaughan would go on to win the 2008 Senior British Open.

Winners

The list may be incomplete
YearWinnerCountryScore
Mount Edgecombe Trophy
2008 Mark Murless  275 (-13)
2007 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....

 
276 (-12)
Autopage Mount Edgecombe Trophy
1994 Bruce Vaughan
Bruce Vaughan
Bruce Lloyd Vaughan is an American professional golfer.Vaughan was born in Kankakee, Illinois. He didn't start playing golf until he was 20 and working as a firefighter in Hutchinson, Kansas....

 
275 (-13)
Mount Edgecombe Trophy
1993 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...

 South Africa 279 (-9)
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