2018 Big Easy Tour

The 2018 Big Easy Tour was the eighth season of the Big Easy Tour, the official development tour to the Sunshine Tour.

2018 Big Easy Tour season

Duration	16 April 2018 (2018-04-16) – 14 December 2019 (2019-12-14)
Number of official events	16
Most wins	Matt Bright (2) Cameron Moralee (2) Dylan Mostert (2)
Order of Merit	Dylan Kok
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OWGR inclusion

In August 2017, the Official World Golf Ranking announced that all Big Easy Tour events would be awarded points, beginning with the Big Easy Challenge 1.^[1]

Schedule

The following table lists official events during the 2018 season.^[2]

Date	Tournament	Location	Purse (R)	Winner[a]	OWGR points
18 Apr	Big Easy Challenge 1	Gauteng	75,000	Dylan Mostert (1)	3
16 May	Big Easy Challenge 2	North West	75,000	Duane Keun (1)	3
23 May	Big Easy Challenge 3	Gauteng	75,000	Dylan Mostert (2)	3
6 Jun	Big Easy Challenge 4	Gauteng	75,000	Otto van Buynder (a) (1)	3
27 Jun	Big Easy Challenge 5	Gauteng	75,000	Matt Bright (1)	3
4 Jul	Big Easy Challenge 6	Gauteng	75,000	Matt Bright (2)	3
8 Aug	Big Easy Challenge 7	Gauteng	75,000	Paul Boshoff (1)	3
22 Aug	Big Easy Challenge 8	Gauteng	75,000	Cameron Moralee (1)	3
5 Sep	Big Easy Challenge 9	Gauteng	75,000	Benjamin Follett-Smith (1)	3
19 Sep	Big Easy Challenge 10	Gauteng	75,000	Stuart Smith (1)	3
10 Oct	Big Easy Challenge 11	Gauteng	75,000	Albert Venter (1)	3
24 Oct	Big Easy Challenge 12	Gauteng	75,000	Juran Dreyer (1)	3
31 Oct	Big Easy Challenge 13	Gauteng	75,000	Cameron Moralee (2)	3
14 Nov	Big Easy Challenge 14	Gauteng	75,000	Eric Nel (1)	3
28 Nov	Big Easy Challenge 15	Gauteng	75,000	Thriston Lawrence (1)	3
14 Dec	Big Easy Tour Championship	Gauteng	200,000	Luke Brown (1)	3

Order of Merit

The Order of Merit was based on prize money won during the season, calculated in South African rand.^[3] The top 10 players on the Order of Merit earned status to play on the 2019–20 Sunshine Tour.^[4]

Position	Player	Prize money (R)
1	Dylan Kok	58,789
2	Luke Brown	51,114
3	Matt Bright	50,274
4	Juran Dreyer	47,857
5	Dylan Mostert	37,073
6	Ruan Korb	35,805
7	Kim Dong-kwan	34,792
8	Cameron Moralee	33,967
9	Paul Boshoff	32,921
10	Hendrikus Stoop	32,443

Notes

1. 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.