With 12 top 10s and two wins last season, Jonathan Broomhead was on a roll. He goes into this week’s Blu Label Unlimited Challenge to defend the title he won in 2024 with one win and three other top 10s and ready to roll again.

It’s a measure of the consistency he produces that the two missed cuts he has this season in nine tournaments seem to indicate that all is not firing for the man who finished fourth in last season’s Sunshine Tour Order of Merit.

But he’s fifth in the Order of Merit this year, and playing in this week’s tournament in a pro-am environment in which he clearly thrives, he could be ready to break out again after his share of fifth in last week’s Fortress Invitational at Glendower.

With the modified stableford format which encourages risk-taking on a course which rewards bravery as much as it punishes waywardness, Broomhead will be relishing a return to the scene of a composed triumph last year.

Broomhead completed a wire-to-wire triumph (pictured above) and won by four points on a total of 45 points overall, where there were five points for an eagle, two for a birdie, zero for par, minus-one for a bogey, and minus-three for a double bogey or worse.

He’ll be up against some hot oppositions, as Sunshine Tour players always are. Perhaps the hottest of them, and the one who will relish the pro-am environment, is Kyle Barker. The gregarious Barker finished in a share of second at Glendower last week for his best finish in 12 tournaments on the tour this season, and his fourth top-10. He’s a risk-taker by nature in golf, and he loves nothing more than being faced with a challenge. If the opportunities arise, you can bet that he will need very little encouragement from his pro-am partners to take on the seemingly impossible.

And the man who won the first two titles of the 2025-26 Sunshine Tour season, Mexico’s Luis Carrera, is rounding back into some form after that hot start. With two top 10s in the last two starts, he shared second with Barker at Glendower with some good scoring over the weekend on a tough course.

So the stage is set for the latest iteration of one of the oldest tournaments on the Sunshine Tour, one one of the most intriguing. Picking a winner is no easy task, but that’s the Sunshine Tour for you as more and more good players keep emerging.