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Challenge Tour Grand Final

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Rolex Challenge Tour Grand Final
Tournament information
LocationPort d'Alcúdia, Mallorca, Spain
Established1995
Course(s)Club de Golf Alcanada
Par72
Length7,128 yards (6,518 m)
Tour(s)Challenge Tour
FormatStroke play
Prize fund500,000
Month playedOctober/November
Tournament record score
Aggregate265 Espen Kofstad (2012)
To par−21 Bernd Ritthammer (2016)
Current champion
England Marco Penge
Location map
Club de Golf Alcanada is located in Spain
Club de Golf Alcanada
Club de Golf Alcanada
Location in Spain
Club de Golf Alcanada is located in Balearic Islands
Club de Golf Alcanada
Club de Golf Alcanada
Location in the Balearic Islands
Club de Golf Alcanada is located in Majorca
Club de Golf Alcanada
Club de Golf Alcanada
Location in Mallorca

The Rolex Challenge Tour Grand Final is the season-ending tour championship on the Challenge Tour. The field currently consists of the top 45 players on the Challenge Tour rankings vying for twenty European Tour cards. It has been played annually since 1995. Initially it was played in Portugal, but has since been held in Cuba, France, Italy, the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Spain.

Since 2010, the Challenge Tour Grand Final has been designated by the Official World Golf Ranking as the Challenge Tour's flagship event. Initially awarding a minimum of 16 ranking points to the winner, compared to 12 for most events, this was increased to 17 points in 2014.[1]

Venues

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Venue Location First Last Times
Quinta do Peru Sesimbra, Portugal 1995 1996 2
Clube de Golf do Montado Setúbal, Portugal 1997 1997 1
Belas Clube de Campo Sintra, Portugal 1998 1998 1
Varadero Golf Club Varadero, Cuba 1999 2000 2
Golf du Médoc Bordeaux, France 2001 2004 4
San Domenico Golf Apulia, Italy 2005 2012 8
Al Badia Golf Club Dubai, United Arab Emirates 2013 2014 2
Al Mouj Golf Muscat, Oman 2015 2017 3
Al Hamra Golf Club Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates 2018 2018 1
Club de Golf Alcanada Port d'Alcúdia, Mallorca, Spain 2019 2024 4
T-Golf & Country Club Calvià, Mallorca, Spain 2020 2021 2

Winners

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Challenge Tour (Flagship event) 2010–2021
Challenge Tour (Tour Championship) 1995–2009, 2022–
# Year Winner Score To par Margin of
victory
Runner(s)-up Venue
Rolex Challenge Tour Grand Final
30th 2024 Alcanada
29th 2023 England Marco Penge 278 −10 6 strokes France Tom Vaillant Alcanada
28th 2022 England Nathan Kimsey 279 −9 1 stroke South Africa Bryce Easton
England John Parry
Alcanada
27th 2021 Denmark Marcus Helligkilde 276 −8 1 stroke France Julien Brun
Portugal Ricardo Gouveia
France Frédéric Lacroix
Germany Yannik Paul
T-Golf
Challenge Tour Grand Final
26th 2020 Czech Republic Ondřej Lieser 273 −11 1 stroke Sweden Christofer Blomstrand
Germany Alexander Knappe
Spain Santiago Tarrío
T-Golf
25th 2019 Italy Francesco Laporta 278 −6 2 strokes Germany Sebastian Heisele
France Robin Sciot-Siegrist
Alcanada
Ras Al Khaimah Challenge Tour Grand Final
24th 2018 Spain Adri Arnaus 271 −17 1 stroke France Victor Perez Al Hamra
NBO Golf Classic Grand Final
23rd 2017 France Clément Sordet 273 −15 2 strokes Sweden Marcus Kinhult Al Mouj Golf
22nd 2016 Germany Bernd Ritthammer 267 −21 1 stroke Sweden Jens Dantorp Al Mouj Golf
21st 2015 Portugal Ricardo Gouveia 275 −13 1 stroke Denmark Joachim B. Hansen Al Mouj Golf
Dubai Festival City Challenge Tour Grand Final
20th 2014 France Benjamin Hébert 276 −12 5 strokes France Jérôme Lando-Casanova Al Badia
19th 2013 India Shiv Kapur 272 −16 4 strokes Portugal José-Filipe Lima
Scotland Jamie McLeary
Al Badia
Apulia San Domenico Grand Final
18th 2012 Norway Espen Kofstad 265 −19 1 stroke England James Busby
Denmark Joachim B. Hansen
San Domenico Golf
17th 2011 Italy Andrea Pavan 267 −17 1 stroke England Tommy Fleetwood San Domenico Golf
16th 2010 England Matt Haines 276 −8 1 stroke Australia Daniel Gaunt San Domenico Golf
15th 2009 Scotland Peter Whiteford 279 −5 Playoff Australia Andrew Tampion San Domenico Golf
14th 2008 Argentina Estanislao Goya 267 −17 1 stroke England Richard Bland
England John E. Morgan
San Domenico Golf
13th 2007 France Mike Lorenzo-Vera 269 −15 1 stroke Wales Jamie Donaldson
Netherlands Joost Luiten
Wales Stuart Manley
Scotland Eric Ramsay
San Domenico Golf
12th 2006 England James Hepworth 271 −13 2 strokes Argentina Rafael Echenique
Sweden Alex Norén
Wales Mark Pilkington
San Domenico Golf
11th 2005 Spain Carl Suneson 273 −15 1 stroke Argentina Daniel Vancsik
Scotland Marc Warren
San Domenico Golf
Bouygues Telecom Grand Final
10th 2004 Scotland David Drysdale 271 −13 Playoff Sweden Mattias Eliasson Golf du Médoc
Challenge Tour Grand Final
9th 2003 Spain José Manuel Carriles 273 −11 Playoff Sweden Johan Edfors Golf du Médoc
8th 2002 Republic of Ireland Peter Lawrie 272 −12 4 strokes France Julien van Hauwe Golf du Médoc
7th 2001 England Richard Bland 266 −18 5 strokes England Philip Golding Golf du Médoc
Cuba Challenge Tour Grand Final
6th 2000 Sweden Henrik Stenson 270 −18 5 strokes Sweden Mikael Lundberg
England Andrew Raitt
Italy Michele Reale
Varadero
Cuba European Challenge Tour Grand Final
5th 1999 New Zealand Stephen Scahill 277 −11 2 strokes Spain José Manuel Lara
Sweden Henrik Stenson
Varadero
AXA Grand Final
4th 1998 Argentina Jorge Berendt 275 −13 Playoff England Warren Bennett Belas Clube de Campo
Estoril Grand Final
3rd 1997 France Nicolas Joakimides 198[a] −18 1 stroke Sweden Mikael Lundberg Clube de Golf do Montado
UAP Grand Final
2nd 1996 England Ian Garbutt 272 −16 2 strokes England Van Phillips
Denmark Ben Tinning
Quinta do Peru
1st 1995 Spain Francisco Valera 275 −13 1 stroke France Tim Planchin Quinta do Peru

Notes

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  1. ^ Shortened to 54 holes due to weather.

References

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  1. ^ "How the ranking evolved". Official World Golf Ranking. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
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