Open de Portugal

Coordinates: 37°11′50″N 8°34′02″W / 37.1973°N 8.56731°W / 37.1973; -8.56731
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Open de Portugal
Tournament information
LocationÓbidos, Portugal
Established1953
Course(s)Royal Óbidos Spa & Golf Resort
Par72
Length7,283 yards (6,660 m)
Tour(s)European Tour
Challenge Tour
FormatStroke play
Prize fund250,000
Month playedSeptember
Tournament record score
Aggregate264 Colin Montgomerie (1989)
To par−24 as above
Current champion
England Marco Penge
Location map
Royal Óbidos Spa & Golf Resort is located in Portugal
Royal Óbidos Spa & Golf Resort
Royal Óbidos Spa & Golf Resort
Location in Portugal

The Open de Portugal, previously the Portuguese Open, is an annual professional golf tournament, currently played on the Challenge Tour.

History[edit]

It was first played in 1953, and was part of the European Tour's schedule from 1973 to 2010. After a hiatus, the tournament returned in 2017 as a dual-ranking event on both the European Tour and the second-tier Challenge Tour. Matt Wallace won the event claiming his first European Tour victory.[1] Since 2017 it continued as Challenge Tour-only event. However, in 2020, as part of major changes to the season due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it returned to the European Tour schedule as a dual-ranking event.[2] Garrick Higgo won the 2020 event for his maiden European Tour win.[3]

In 2021, the event returned as a sole-sanctioned Challenge Tour event.

Winners[edit]

Year Tour(s)[a] Winner Score To par Margin of
victory
Runner(s)-up Venue
Open de Portugal
2023 CHA England Marco Penge 272 −16 4 strokes Italy Lorenzo Scalise
United States Julian Suri
Royal Óbidos
2022 CHA France Pierre Pineau 273 −15 Playoff France Félix Mory
France David Ravetto
Royal Óbidos
2021 CHA Germany Marcel Schneider 269 −19 1 stroke France Frédéric Lacroix Royal Óbidos
2020 CHA, EUR South Africa Garrick Higgo 269 −19 1 stroke Spain Pep Anglès Royal Óbidos
2019 CHA Poland Adrian Meronk 273 −15 2 strokes Spain Sebastián García Rodríguez Morgado
2018 CHA Australia Dimitrios Papadatos 281 −7 2 strokes Portugal José-Filipe Lima
France Antoine Rozner
Morgado
2017 CHA, EUR England Matt Wallace 271 −21 3 strokes United States Julian Suri Morgado
2011–2016: No tournament
Estoril Open de Portugal
2010 EUR Denmark Thomas Bjørn 265 −23 5 strokes Australia Richard Green Penha Longa
2009 EUR Northern Ireland Michael Hoey 277 −7 Playoff Spain Gonzalo Fernández-Castaño Oitavos Dunes
2008 EUR France Grégory Bourdy 266 −18 Playoff Scotland Alastair Forsyth
England David Howell
Oitavos Dunes
2007 EUR Spain Pablo Martín (a) 277 −7 1 stroke France Raphaël Jacquelin Oitavos Golfe
Algarve Open de Portugal Caixa Geral de Depositos
2006 EUR England Paul Broadhurst (2) 271 −17 1 stroke England Anthony Wall Le Meridien Penina
Estoril Open de Portugal Caixa Geral de Depositos
2005 EUR England Paul Broadhurst 271 −13 1 stroke Scotland Paul Lawrie Oitavos Golfe
Algarve Open de Portugal Caixa Geral de Depositos
2004 EUR Spain Miguel Ángel Jiménez 272 −16 2 strokes Australia Terry Price Le Meridien Penina
Algarve Open de Portugal
2003 EUR Sweden Freddie Jacobson 283 −5 1 stroke England Brian Davis
Wales Jamie Donaldson
Wales Bradley Dredge
Vale do Lobo
2002 EUR Sweden Carl Pettersson 142[b] −2 Playoff England David Gilford Vale do Lobo
2001 EUR Wales Phillip Price (2) 273 −15 2 strokes Republic of Ireland Pádraig Harrington
Germany Sven Strüver
Quinta do Lago
Algarve Portuguese Open
2000 EUR Scotland Gary Orr 275 −13 1 stroke Wales Phillip Price Le Meridien Penina
1999 EUR England Van Phillips 276 −12 Playoff England John Bickerton Le Meridien Penina
Portuguese Open
1998 EUR England Peter Mitchell 274 −18 1 stroke England David Gilford
Sweden Jarmo Sandelin
Le Meridien Penina
1997 EUR Sweden Michael Jonzon 269 −19 3 strokes Spain Ignacio Garrido Aroeira
1996 EUR Australia Wayne Riley 271 −13 2 strokes England Mark Davis
England Martin Gates
Aroeira
1995 EUR Scotland Adam Hunter 277 −11 Playoff Northern Ireland Darren Clarke Penha Longa
1994 EUR Wales Phillip Price 278 −6 4 strokes England Paul Eales
England David Gilford
South Africa Retief Goosen
Penha Longa
1993 EUR England David Gilford 275 −13 Playoff Argentina Jorge Berendt Vila-Sol
1992 EUR Northern Ireland Ronan Rafferty 273 −15 1 stroke Sweden Anders Forsbrand Vila-Sol
1991 EUR England Steven Richardson 283 −5 3 strokes Argentina Vicente Fernández Estela
Portuguese Open TPC
1990 EUR England Michael McLean 274 −14 1 stroke Scotland Gordon Brand Jnr
Australia Mike Harwood
Quinta do Lago
1989 EUR Scotland Colin Montgomerie 264 −24 11 strokes Australia Rodger Davis
Spain Manuel Moreno
United States Mike Smith
Quinta do Lago
Portuguese Open
1988 EUR Australia Mike Harwood 280 −8 1 stroke Republic of Ireland Eamonn Darcy Quinta do Lago
1987 EUR England Robert Lee 195[c] −12 1 stroke Scotland Sam Torrance Estoril
1986 EUR Zimbabwe Mark McNulty 270 −18 4 strokes England Ian Mosey Quinta do Lago
1985 EUR England Warren Humphreys 279 −9 1 stroke South Africa Hugh Baiocchi Quinta do Lago
1984 EUR Zimbabwe Tony Johnstone 274 −14 3 strokes England Michael King Quinta do Lago
1983 EUR Scotland Sam Torrance (2) 286 −2 3 strokes England Chris Moody Troia
1982 EUR Scotland Sam Torrance 207[c] −12 4 strokes England Nick Faldo Penina
1980–81: No tournament
1979 EUR Scotland Brian Barnes 287 −5 2 strokes Spain Francisco Abreu Vilamoura
1978 EUR England Howard Clark 291 −1 1 stroke Scotland Brian Barnes
South Africa Simon Hobday
Penina
1977 EUR Spain Manuel Ramos 287 −5 2 strokes South Africa Hugh Baiocchi Penina
1976 EUR Spain Salvador Balbuena 283 −6 4 strokes Scotland Sam Torrance Quinta do Lago
1975 EUR United States Hal Underwood 292 E 3 strokes Argentina Vicente Fernández Penina
1974 EUR Wales Brian Huggett 272 −4 4 strokes South Africa John Fourie Estoril
1973 EUR Spain Jaime Benito 294 +2 Playoff Scotland Bernard Gallacher Penina
1972 Spain Germán Garrido
1971 England Lionel Platts
1970 Spain Ramón Sota (3)
1969 Spain Ramón Sota (2) 270 England Jack Wilkshire [4]
1968 England Max Faulkner
1967 Spain Ángel Gallardo
1966 Italy Alfonso Angelini (2)
1965: No tournament
1964 Spain Ángel Miguel (3)
1963 Spain Ramón Sota
1962 Italy Alfonso Angelini
1961 England Ken Bousfield (2)
1960 England Ken Bousfield
1959 Spain Sebastián Miguel
1958 England Peter Alliss
1957: No tournament
1956 Spain Ángel Miguel (2)
1955 Belgium Flory Van Donck
1954 Spain Ángel Miguel
1953 Scotland Eric Brown

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ CHA − Challenge Tour; EUR − European Tour.
  2. ^ Shortened to 36 holes due to strong winds.
  3. ^ a b Shortened to 54 holes due to weather.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Matt Wallace: World number 242 wins Portugal Open for first European Tour title". BBC Sport. 14 May 2017. Retrieved 14 May 2017.
  2. ^ "Open de Portugal at Royal Óbidos completes three-event Iberian Swing". European Tour. 10 July 2020. Retrieved 10 July 2020.
  3. ^ "Open de Portugal: Garrick Higgo claims maiden European Tour win". Sky Sports. 20 September 2020. Retrieved 21 September 2020.
  4. ^ Davies, David (25 November 1969). "Portugal setback for Jim Rhodes". The Birmingham Post. p. 15. Retrieved 17 January 2023 – via Newspapers.com.

External links[edit]

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