George - Volvo Tournament of Champions - January 2012

The European Golf Tour's first-ever true 'tournament of champions' event has been confirmed for South Africa's number-one golf course, The Links at Fancourt, from 19th – 22nd January 2012, with the prospect of the finest field ever assembled for a European Tour event on African soil chasing the €350,000 (Approximately R3,500,000) first prize.

 With a prize fund of €2million (Approximately R20,000,000) the Volvo Golf tournament of Champions is the first solely-sanctioned European Tour event of 2012 and offers the circuit's most valuable purse on the African continent.

The Volvo Golf Tournament of Champions is open only to European Tour players who have won an event on the previous year's European Tour International Schedule and current Tour Members with ten or more European Tour wins to their name.

Guy Kinnings, Managing Director, IMG Golf, the promoter and event co-owner with Volvo said in a press release that, "The 2012 Volvo Golf Tournament of Champions will deliver an exclusive, international line-up of proven champions to South Africa, where their countrymen's golfing achievements speak for themselves. It is not before time that the European Tour has a tournament of champions and given the current health of the European Tour we will clearly be putting together an enviable group of players into the field at Fancourt in January."

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