Big Easy Tour Big Easy Tour The Big Easy Tour is a golf tour based in Southern Africa, founded in 2011. It is a developmental tour for the Sunshine Tour. The top five players earn Sunshine Tour cards, with those 6th–30th earning entry into the final stage of Sunshine Tour qualifying school. The tour is named after the nickname of South African golfer Ernie Els. In 2017, three tournaments were co-sanctioned with the MENA Golf Tour. From the start of 2018, tournaments attract Official World Golf Ranking points. Winners receive a minimum of 3 points for 54-hole tournaments and 5 points for 72-hole
Ricardo Santos (golfer) took him to the top of the tour rankings. He is the first Portuguese-born golfer to win at this level, as José-Filipe Lima and Daniel Silva, despite representing Portugal, were born in France and South Africa respectively. In 2012, he bettered this feat by winning on the European Tour for the first time, on home soil at the Madeira Islands Open. He was named the European Tour's 2012 Sir Henry Cotton Rookie of the Year. Amateur Professional Ricardo Santos (golfer) Ricardo Santos (born 7 September 1982) is a Portuguese professional golfer. Santos was born in Faro, Portugal. He turned professional