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Belgian Open (golf)

Coordinates: 51°16′51″N 4°34′25″E / 51.2807°N 4.5737°E / 51.2807; 4.5737
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Belgian Knockout
Tournament information
Location Belgium
Established1910
Course(s)Rinkven International GC
Tour(s)European Tour
FormatStroke play & match play
Prize fund€1,000,000
Month playedMay
Tournament record score
Aggregate266 Lee Westwood (2000)
Current champion
Spain Adrián Otaegui
Rinkven International GC is located in Belgium
Rinkven International GC
Rinkven
International GC
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Location in Belgium

The Belgian Open is a men's golf tournament which has been played intermittently from 1910 to 2000. All editions since 1978 have been part of the European Tour. After not having been played since 2000, it returned in 2018 as the Belgian Knockout, hosted by Belgian professional golfer Thomas Pieters and featuring 36 holes of stroke play followed by 9-hole match play for the top 64 finishers from the stroke-play rounds.[1][2]

The first ever Belgian Open was won by Arnaud Massy, the only Frenchman to win a major championship. Other distinguished champions included Walter Hagen, Henry Cotton, José María Olazábal, Nick Faldo and Lee Westwood. Belgium's most successful 20th century golfer, Flory Van Donck, won his home open five times between 1939 and 1956.

Winners

As a stroke play and match play event
Year Winner Country Venue Score Runner-up Ref
Belgian Knockout
2018 Adrián Otaegui  Spain Rinkven International GC −3 to −1 France Benjamin Hébert
As a stroke play event
Year Winner Country Venue Score Margin of
victory		 Runner(s)-up Ref
2001–2017: No tournament
2000 Lee Westwood  England Royal Zoute GC 266 (−18) 4 strokes Argentina Eduardo Romero
1999 Robert Karlsson  Sweden Royal Zoute GC 272 (−12) 1 stroke South Africa Retief Goosen
England Jamie Spence
1998 Lee Westwood  England Royal Zoute GC 268 (−16) Playoff Sweden Fredrik Jacobson
Alfred Dunhill Open
1995–1997: No tournament
1994 Nick Faldo  England Royal Zoute GC 279 (−5) Playoff Sweden Joakim Haeggman
1993 Darren Clarke  Northern Ireland Royal Zoute GC 270 (−14) 2 strokes England Nick Faldo
Fiji Vijay Singh
Piaget Belgian Open
1992 Miguel Ángel Jiménez  Spain Royal Zoute GC 274 (−10) 3 strokes England Barry Lane
Renault Belgian Open
1991 Per-Ulrik Johansson  Sweden Royal Waterloo GC 276 (−12) Playoff England Paul Broadhurst
Peugeot-Trends Belgian Open
1990 Ove Sellberg  Sweden Royal Waterloo GC 272 (−16) 4 strokes Wales Ian Woosnam
Volvo Belgian Open
1989 Gordon J. Brand  England Royal Waterloo GC 273 (−11) 4 strokes England Kevin Dickens
1988 José María Olazábal  Spain Golf du Bercuit 269 (−15) 4 strokes United States Mike Smith
1987 Eamonn Darcy  Ireland Royal Waterloo GC 200 (−13) 1 stroke England Nick Faldo
Northern Ireland Ronan Rafferty
Wales Ian Woosnam
Belgian Open
1980–1986: No tournament
1979 Gavan Levenson  South Africa Royal Waterloo GC 279 (−5) 3 strokes South Africa Bobby Cole
England Nick Faldo
England Michael King
1978 Noel Ratcliffe  Australia Royal Golf Club of Belgium 280 (−12) 1 stroke Australia Chris Tickner
1959–1977: No tournament
1958 Ken Bousfield  England Royal Golf Club of Belgium 271 3 strokes Argentina Antonio Cerdá [3]
1957 Bernard Hunt  England Royal Latem GC 280 Playoff
(36 holes)		 Wales Dai Rees [4]
1956 Flory Van Donck  Belgium Royal Latem GC 269 8 strokes Spain Ángel Miguel [5]
1955 Dave Thomas  Wales Royal Golf Club des Fagnes 290 1 stroke Belgium Arthur Devulder [6]
1954 Dai Rees  Wales Royal Antwerp GC 287 1 stroke Italy Aldo Casera
Australia Norman Von Nida		 [7]
1953 Flory Van Donck  Belgium Royal Waterloo GC 270 9 strokes France Henri de Lamaze (a) [8]
1952 Antonio Cerdá  Argentina Royal Golf Club des Fagnes 286 4 strokes South Africa Brian Wilkes [9]
1951 Albert Pelissier  France Royal Latem GC 279 5 strokes Belgium Flory Van Donck
Egypt Hassan Hassanein		 [10]
1950 Roberto De Vicenzo  Argentina Royal Zoute GC 282 4 strokes Argentina Antonio Cerdá [11]
1949 Jimmy Adams  Scotland Royal Golf Club des Fagnes 283 2 strokes England Max Faulkner [12]
1948 Willie Forrester  Scotland Royal Golf Club of Belgium 288
1947 Flory Van Donck  Belgium Royal Golf Club des Fagnes 283
1946 Flory Van Donck  Belgium Royal Waterloo GC 289 4 strokes Scotland Willie Forrester
1940–1945: No tournament due to World War II
1939 Flory Van Donck  Belgium Royal Golf Club of Belgium 291 1 stroke England Max Faulkner [13]
1938 Henry Cotton  England Royal Waterloo GC 277 13 strokes England Arthur Lacey [14]
1937 Marcel Dallemagne  France Royal Zoute GC 285 4 strokes Wales Dai Rees [15]
1936 Auguste Boyer  France Royal Golf Club des Fagnes 285 1 stroke England Henry Cotton [16]
1935 Bill Branch  England Royal Golf Club of Belgium 283 Playoff
(36 holes)		 Belgium Flory Van Donck [17]
1934 Henry Cotton  England Royal Waterloo GC 279 3 strokes England Percy Alliss [18]
1933 Auguste Boyer  France Royal Golf Club des Fagnes 282 3 strokes England Henry Cotton [19]
1932 Arthur Lacey  England Royal Golf Club of Belgium 291 2 strokes France Auguste Boyer [20]
1931 Arthur Lacey  England Royal Golf Club des Fagnes 301 1 stroke France Marcel Dallemagne
France Pierre Hirogoyen		 [21]
1930 Henry Cotton  England Royal Golf Club of Belgium 281 11 strokes England Archie Compston [22]
1929 Sid Brews  South Africa Royal Antwerp GC 300 1 stroke Jersey Aubrey Boomer [23]
1928 Albert Tingey Jr.  England Royal Golf Club of Belgium 297 3 strokes England Jack Taylor [24]
1927 Marcel Dallemagne  France Royal Zoute GC 140
1926 Aubrey Boomer  Jersey Royal Zoute GC 137 9 strokes Jersey Percy Boomer [25]
1925 Eugène Lafitte  France Royal Antwerp GC 142 1 stroke England Arthur Havers [26]
1924 Walter Hagen  United States Royal Zoute GC 142 Jersey Aubrey Boomer
1923 Percy Boomer  Jersey Royal Golf Club of Belgium 143
1922 Aubrey Boomer  Jersey Royal Golf Club of Belgium 150 1 stroke Isle of Man Charles Corlett
France Marius Cavallo		 [27]
1921 Eugène Lafitte  France Royal Golf Club of Belgium 145 10 strokes England George Pannell
1920 Rowland Jones  England Royal Zoute GC 154 Playoff Jersey Aubrey Boomer
England Henry Burrows		 [28]
1915–1919: No tournament due to World War I
1914 Tom Ball  England Royal Antwerp GC 144 4 strokes England Charles Mayo [29]
1913 Tom Ball  England Lombardsijde GC 145 1 stroke Scotland James Braid [30]
1912 George Duncan  Scotland Royal Golf Club of Belgium 144 Playoff England Tom Ball
Jersey Ted Ray		 [31]
1911 Charles Mayo  England Royal Golf Club of Belgium 144 3 strokes France Arnaud Massy [32]
1910 Arnaud Massy  France Royal Golf Club of Belgium 139 5 strokes Scotland Sandy Herd
England Harry Vardon		 [33]

In 1957 Hunt (137) beat Rees (145) by 8 strokes in a 36-hole playoff. In 1935 Branch (145) beat Van Donck (149) by 4 strokes in a 36-hole playoff. In 1912 Duncan (70) beat Ray (71) and Ball (78) in an 18-hole playoff, played the same evening.

References

  1. ^ "Thomas Pieters to host Belgian Knockout in 2018". European Tour. 25 September 2017.
  2. ^ "Belgian Knockout Tournament History". European Tour. Retrieved 27 April 2018.
  3. ^ "Belgian Open title for Bousfield". The Times. 11 July 1958. p. 4.
  4. ^ "Rees and Hunt tie for first place". The Times. 27 May 1957. p. 3.
  5. ^ "Belgian Open". The Times. 11 June 1956. p. 3.
  6. ^ "British golf win". The Glasgow Herald. 13 August 1955. p. 2.
  7. ^ "Belgian Open golf title for Rees". The Times. 19 July 1954. p. 3.
  8. ^ "Belgian Open championship". The Times. 12 August 1953. p. 9.
  9. ^ "Belgian Open championship". The Times. 11 August 1952. p. 4.
  10. ^ "British open golf championship". The Glasgow Herald. 7 August 1951. p. 2.
  11. ^ "Ostend, July 24". The Times. 25 July 1950. p. 7.
  12. ^ "Adams wins in Belgian". The Times. 15 August 1949. p. 6.
  13. ^ "The Belgian Open championship". The Times. 12 August 1939. p. 4.
  14. ^ "Cotton wins Belgian "Open"". The Glasgow Herald. 14 July 1938. p. 2.
  15. ^ "Belgian Open title for Dellamagne". The Glasgow Herald. 23 July 1937. p. 4.
  16. ^ "The Belgian Open championship". The Times. 11 August 1936. p. 6.
  17. ^ "Belgian Open championship". The Times. 9 July 1935. p. 7.
  18. ^ "Cotton wins the Belgian Open". The Glasgow Herald. 15 August 1934. p. 7.
  19. ^ "Boyer wins Belgian Open championship". The Times. 9 August 1933. p. 5.
  20. ^ "Lacey wins Belgian championship". The Times. 20 June 1932. p. 6.
  21. ^ "Belgian Open championship". The Times. 22 July 1931. p. 6.
  22. ^ "Belgian championship". The Times. 30 June 1930. p. 4.
  23. ^ "Belgian Open championship". The Times. 1 June 1929. p. 5.
  24. ^ "Belgian championship". The Times. 19 June 1928. p. 7.
  25. ^ "Belgian Open golf championship". The Times. 14 July 1926. p. 6.
  26. ^ "Belgian Open golf championship". The Times. 5 October 1925. p. 16.
  27. ^ "Golf - Belgian open championship". The Times. 3 July 1922. p. 19.
  28. ^ "Golf - Belgian professional championship". The Times. 14 July 1920. p. 6.
  29. ^ "Belgian Open golf championship - Tom Ball's victory". The Times. 13 July 1914. p. 13.
  30. ^ "Belgian Open championship - Victory of Tom Ball". The Times. 18 October 1913. p. 13.
  31. ^ "Open championship of Belgium - Victory of Duncan". The Times. 6 July 1912. p. 13.
  32. ^ "Belgian Open championship - Victory of C.H. Mayo". The Times. 1 June 1911. p. 14.
  33. ^ "Open championship of Belgium - Victory of Arnaud Massy". The Times. 3 June 1910. p. 18.

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