2022 Big Easy Tour

The 2022 Big Easy Tour, titled as the 2022 Altron Big Easy Tour for sponsorship reasons, was the 11th season of the Big Easy Tour, the official development tour to the Sunshine Tour.

2022 Big Easy Tour season

Duration	10 May 2022 (2022-05-10) – 17 November 2022 (2022-11-17)
Number of official events	10
Most wins	Gerhard Pepler (3)
Order of Merit	Gerhard Pepler
← 2020–21 2023–24 →

Altron title sponsorship

In April, it was announced that the tour had signed a title sponsorship agreement with South African technology company Altron, being renamed as the Altron Big Easy Tour.^[1]

Schedule

The following table lists official events during the 2022 season.^[2]

Date	Tournament	Location	Purse (R)	Winner[a]	OWGR points
12 May	Altron Big Easy Tour 1	Gauteng	150,000	Christiaan Maas (a) (1)	3
8 Jun	Altron Big Easy Tour 2	Gauteng	150,000	Kim Dong-kwan (1)	3
15 Jun	Altron Big Easy Tour 3	Gauteng	150,000	Gregory McKay (1)	3
23 Jun	Altron Big Easy Tour 4	Gauteng	150,000	Adam Breen (1)	3
30 Jun	Altron Big Easy Tour 5	Gauteng	150,000	Ricky Hendler (1)	3
6 Jul	Altron Big Easy Tour 6	Gauteng	150,000	Casey Jarvis (a) (1)	3
14 Jul	Altron Big Easy Tour 7	Gauteng	150,000	Gerhard Pepler (2)	3
1 Sep	Altron Big Easy Tour 8	Gauteng	150,000	Ruan de Smidt (2)	0.34
6 Oct	Altron Big Easy Tour Play Off	Gauteng	150,000	Gerhard Pepler (3)	0.22
17 Nov	Altron Big Easy Tour Final	Gauteng	150,000	Gerhard Pepler (4)	0.17

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 2023–24 Sunshine Tour.^[4]

Position	Player	Prize money (R)
1	Gerhard Pepler	133,940
2	Ricky Hendler	99,568
3	Ruan de Smidt	68,713
4	Kim Dong-kwan	55,928
5	Reinhardt Blaauw	54,873
6	Keelan van Wyk	53,190
7	Gregory McKay	48,838
8	Nicholaus Frade	48,793
9	L. B. Boshoff	46,413
10	Leon Visser	45,295

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.