Zambia Masters

The Zambia Masters, currently known for sponsorship reasons as the Zanaco Masters, is a golf tournament on the Sunshine Tour. It was first played in June 2014 as the Zambia Sugar Open.^[1] A tournament called the Zambia Sugar Open was played in 2013 but was a different event, the Zambia Open.

Zanaco Masters

Tournament information
Location	Lusaka, Zambia
Established	2014
Course(s)	Lusaka Golf Club
Par	73
Length	7,225 yards (6,607 m)
Tour(s)	Sunshine Tour
Format	Stroke play
Prize fund	R 2,200,000
Month played	May
Tournament record score
Aggregate	272 Vaughn Groenewald (2015)
To par	−20 as above
Current champion
Robson Chinhoi
Location map
Lusaka GC Location in Zambia

No tournaments took place in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[2] The 2021 tournament was again removed from the Sunshine Tour schedule and was played as a local event for Zambian professionals.^[3]

The event returned in 2023 after a three-year hiatus from the Sunshine Tour schedule.^[4]

Winners

Year	Tour[a]	Winner	Score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up
Zambia Masters
2024	AFR	Postponed[5]
Zanaco Masters
2023	AFR	Robson Chinhoi	271	−17	Playoff	Neil Schietekat
2022: No tournament
2021	AFR[b]	Sydney Wemba	219	E	1 stroke	Dayne Moore
2020	AFR	No tournament due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2019	AFR	J. C. Ritchie	274	−18	Playoff	Rhys Enoch
2018	AFR	J. J. Senekal	274	−14	Playoff	Jaco Ahlers Andre de Decker Alex Haindl
Zambia Sugar Open
2017	AFR	Oliver Bekker	273	−19	2 strokes	Jared Harvey
2016	AFR	Christofer Blomstrand	276	−16	3 strokes	CJ du Plessis
2015	AFR	Vaughn Groenewald	272	−20	4 strokes	Jean Hugo
2014	AFR	Lyle Rowe	279	−13	4 strokes	Neil Schietekat

Notes

1. AFR − Sunshine Tour.
2. Tournament held without Sunshine Tour sanctioning due to the COVID-19 pandemic.