Open de España
Encyclopedia
The Open de España is the national open golf
Golf
Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....

 championship of Spain. It was founded in 1912 and has been part of the European Tour
PGA European Tour
The PGA European Tour is an organization which operates the three leading men's professional golf tours in Europe: the elite European Tour, the European Seniors Tour and the developmental Challenge Tour. Its headquarters are at Wentworth Club in Virginia Water, Surrey, England...

's schedule since the inception of the Tour in 1972. Except for a five year period in the early 1980s, the tournament has been played in April or May. In 2005 it was one of five European Tour events to be held in Spain. Former champions include Arnold Palmer
Arnold Palmer
Arnold Daniel Palmer is an American professional golfer, who is generally regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of men's professional golf. He has won numerous events on both the PGA Tour and Champions Tour, dating back to 1955...

, Seve Ballesteros, Bernhard Langer
Bernhard Langer
Bernhard Langer is a German professional golfer. He is a two-time Masters champion, and was one of the world's leading golfers throughout the 1980s and 90s, being the first official number one ranked player in 1986...

, and Nick Faldo
Nick Faldo
Sir Nicholas Alexander "Nick" Faldo, MBE is an English professional golfer on the European Tour who now mainly works as an on air golf analyst. Over his career, he has won six majors: three Open Championships and three Masters. He was ranked the World No...

.

Winners

YearWinnerCountryScoreRunner(s)-up
Open de España
2011 Thomas Aiken
Thomas Aiken
Thomas Edward Aiken is a South African professional golfer who plays on the European Tour.Following a successful amateur career, which included being named the South African Amateur of the Year in 2001, Aiken turned professional at the start of 2002. In 2004, he won three times on the Sunshine...

 
278   Anders Hansen
Anders Hansen
Anders Rosenberg Hansen is a Danish professional golfer.Hansen was born in Sønderborg, Denmark. He turned professional in 1995...

2010 Álvaro Quirós
Álvaro Quirós
Álvaro Quirós García is a Spanish professional golfer.Quirós was born in Guadiaro, a borough of San Roque, Cádiz. He turned professional in 2004.-Professional career:...

 
277PO   James Morrison
James Morrison (golfer)
James Ian Morrison is an English professional golfer.Morrison played in the same England youth cricket teams as Alastair Cook, Ravi Bopara and Tim Bresnan, with whom he remains friends. At the age of 16, he switched to golf and his handicap fell from 18 to scratch in less than a year. He...

2009 Thomas Levet
Thomas Levet
Thomas Levet is a French professional golfer who is a member of the European Tour and former member of the PGA Tour.Levet was born in Paris, France...

 
270   Fabrizio Zanotti
Fabrizio Zanotti
Fabrizio Zanotti is a Paraguayan professional golfer.Zanotti was born in Asunción. He was Paraguay's top ranked amateur golfer for six straight years before turning professional in 2003....

2008 Peter Lawrie
Peter Lawrie
Peter Lawrie is an Irish professional golfer.Lawrie was born in Dublin and educated at University College Dublin where he took up a golf scholarship. He won the 1996 Irish Amateur Closed Championship and turned professional in 1997...

 
273PO   Ignacio Garrido
Ignacio Garrido
Ignacio Garrido is a Spanish professional golfer. He is the eldest son of Antonio Garrido who won five times on the European Tour and who played in the 1979 Ryder Cup.His uncle, German Garrido, also has won on the European Tour....

2007 Charl Schwartzel
Charl Schwartzel
Charl Adriaan Schwartzel is a South African professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour, European Tour, and the Sunshine Tour. He won the 2011 Masters Tournament. Schwartzel's highest world ranking has been number seven, in May 2011....

 
272   Jyoti Randhawa
Jyoti Randhawa
Jyoti Singh Randhawa is an Indian professional golfer who was ranked in the top 100 of the world and is the third-highest Indian in the world rankings.-Career:...

Andalucía Open de España Valle Romano
2006 Niclas Fasth
Niclas Fasth
Niclas Fasth is a Swedish professional golfer.Fasth was born in Gothenburg. He turned professional in 1993 and won three events on the second tier European Challenge Tour that year. Since 1994 he has been a member of the European Tour for every season except for 1999. He qualified for the U.S...

 
270PO   John Bickerton
John Bickerton
John Edward Bickerton is an English golfer.Bickerton was born in Redditch, England. He turned professional in 1991....

Jazztel Open de España en Andalucía
2005 Peter Hanson
Peter Hanson
Peter Hanson is a Swedish professional golfer.Hanson was born in Svedala, Sweden. He turned professional in 1998 and has played on the Challenge Tour and the European Tour. His professional wins include the 1998 Gunther Hamburg Classics on the Challenge Tour and the 2005 Open de España on the...

 
280PO   Peter Gustafsson
Peter Gustafsson
Peter Gustafsson is a Swedish professional golfer.Gustafsson was born in Orust, Sweden. He turned professional in 1999....

Canarias Open de España
2004 Christian Cévaër
Christian Cévaër
Christian Georges Cévaër is a French professional golfer.Cévaër was born in Nouméa, New Caledonia, attended Stevenson School in Pebble Beach, California, and then took a golf scholarship at Stanford University in California, U.S., where he twice won the Pac-10 Championship. He also won the 1989...

 
271   Ricardo González,   Peter Hedblom
Peter Hedblom
Peter Mikael Hedblom is a Swedish professional golfer.-Amateur career:Hedblom was born in Gävle, Sweden. He won the 1986 Swedish Boys Championship when he was 16. The following year he won the Doral Junior Classic in the United States and the Scandinavian Amateur Open...

,   David Park
David Park (golfer)
David Park is a Welsh professional golfer.Park was born in London to Welsh parents and represents Wales. In 1997, he won the 1997 Brabazon Trophy and was a member of the Great Britain & Ireland Walker Cup team before turning professional late in the year.Park was a rookie on the European Tour in...

2003 Kenneth Ferrie
Kenneth Ferrie
Kenneth Ferrie is an English professional golfer.Ferrie was born in Ashington, Northumberland. He won the British Boys Championship in 1996 and made his first appearance in a European Tour event that year as an invitee at his local event, the Slaley Hall Northumberland Challenge...

 
266PO   Peter Hedblom
Peter Hedblom
Peter Mikael Hedblom is a Swedish professional golfer.-Amateur career:Hedblom was born in Gävle, Sweden. He won the 1986 Swedish Boys Championship when he was 16. The following year he won the Doral Junior Classic in the United States and the Scandinavian Amateur Open...

,   Peter Lawrie
Peter Lawrie
Peter Lawrie is an Irish professional golfer.Lawrie was born in Dublin and educated at University College Dublin where he took up a golf scholarship. He won the 1996 Irish Amateur Closed Championship and turned professional in 1997...

2002 Sergio García
Sergio García
Sergio García Fernández is a Spanish professional golfer who plays on both the United States PGA Tour and the European Tour. He has spent much of his career in the top 10 of the Official World Golf Rankings...

 
275   Emanuele Canonica
Emanuele Canonica
Emanuele Canonica is an Italian professional golfer.Canonica was born at Moncalieri in the province of Turin in the Piedmont region. He won the Italian National Juniors Championship in 1990 and was part of the gold medal winning Italian team at the European Youths' Championship that year...

Via Digital Open de España
2001 Robert Karlsson
Robert Karlsson
Robert Karlsson is a Swedish professional golfer who plays on the European Tour and as of 2011 on the PGA Tour.-Career:...

 
277   Jean-François Remésy
Jean-François Remésy
Jean-François Remésy is a French professional golfer.Remésy was born in Nîmes, Occitania. He won the French Amateur Championship in 1985 and turned professional in 1987. For much of his career he has struggled to establish himself as a tour golfer, and he has made over a dozen trips to the...

Peugeot Open de España
2000 Brian Davis  274   Markus Brier
Markus Brier
Markus Brier is one of relatively few Austrian touring professional golfers, and as of 2008 is his country's highest ranked player....

1999 Jarmo Sandelin
Jarmo Sandelin
Jarmo Sakari Sandelin is a Swedish professional golfer.Sandelin was born in Imatra, Finland but grew up in Sweden, and is now a Swedish citizen...

 
267   Ignacio Garrido
Ignacio Garrido
Ignacio Garrido is a Spanish professional golfer. He is the eldest son of Antonio Garrido who won five times on the European Tour and who played in the 1979 Ryder Cup.His uncle, German Garrido, also has won on the European Tour....

,   Miguel Ángel Jiménez
Miguel Angel Jiménez
Miguel Ángel Jiménez Rodríguez is a Spanish professional golfer. He has won 18 times on the European Tour.-Early years:...

,   Paul McGinley
Paul McGinley
Paul McGinley is an Irish golfer who plays on the European Tour. He is most famous for holing the winning putt for the European team in the 2002 Ryder Cup. He currently resides in Sunningdale, England....

1998 Thomas Bjørn
Thomas Bjørn
Thomas Bjørn is a professional golfer from Denmark who plays on the European Tour. He is the most successful Danish golfer to have played the game having won thirteen tournaments worldwide on the European Tour. In 1999 he also became the first Dane to qualify for a European Ryder Cup team...

 
267   Greg Chalmers
Greg Chalmers
Greg J. Chalmers is an Australian professional golfer who has played on both the European Tour and currently the PGA Tour.Chalmers was born in Sydney...

,   José María Olazábal
José María Olazábal
José María Olazábal Manterola is a Spanish professional golfer who has enjoyed success on both the European Tour and the PGA Tour, and has won two major championships.-Career outline:...

1997 Mark James  277PO   Greg Norman
Greg Norman
Gregory John Norman AO is an Australian professional golfer and entrepreneur who spent 331 weeks as the world's Number 1 ranked golfer in the 1980s and 1990s...

Peugeot Spanish Open
1996 Pádraig Harrington
Padraig Harrington
Pádraig P. Harrington is an Irish professional golfer who plays on The European Tour and The PGA Tour. He has won three major championships: The Open Championship in 2007 and 2008 and the PGA Championship, also in 2008.-Background:...

 
272   Gordon Brand, Jnr
Gordon Brand, Jnr
Gordon Brand, Jnr is a Scottish professional golfer who plays on the European Tour.Brand was born in Kirkcaldy. He turned professional in 1981 and quickly achieved success. He won that year's European Tour Qualifying School, and went on to win two European Tour events in his rookie season...

1995 Seve Ballesteros  274   Ignacio Garrido
Ignacio Garrido
Ignacio Garrido is a Spanish professional golfer. He is the eldest son of Antonio Garrido who won five times on the European Tour and who played in the 1979 Ryder Cup.His uncle, German Garrido, also has won on the European Tour....

,   José Rivero
José Rivero
José Rivero is a Spanish golfer. He started his golf career as a caddie and turned professional in 1973. He was a full member of the European Tour from 1983 to 2001 and he won four European Tour events...

1994 Colin Montgomerie
Colin Montgomerie
Colin Stuart Montgomerie, OBE is a Scottish professional golfer, often referred to by one of his nicknames 'Monty'. He has had one of the finest careers in European Tour history, having won a record eight Order of Merit titles, including a streak of seven consecutively from 1993 to 1999, and 31...

 
277   Richard Boxall
Richard Boxall
Richard Boxall is an English professional golfer.-Golf career:Boxall turned professional in 1982 and won a place on the European Tour at that year's final qualifying school. He played on the Tour until 2000, and won one Tour event, the 1990 Lancia Martini Italian Open...

,   Mark McNulty
Mark McNulty
Mark William McNulty is an Irish/Zimbabwean professional golfer currently playing on the Champions Tour. He was one of the leading players on the European Tour from the mid 1980s to the mid 1990s, and cracked the top 10 of the Official World Golf Rankings for 83 weeks from 1987 to 1992.McNulty...

,   Mark Roe
Mark Roe
Mark Adrian Roe is an English professional golfer, best known for being disqualified from the 2003 Open Championship for a scorecard error....

1993 Joakim Haeggman
Joakim Haeggman
Karl Sven Joakim Haeggman is a Swedish European Tour golfer. He turned professional in 1989 and won his place on the Tour at that year's qualifying school. He has won three events on the European Tour, and several other professional events...

 
275   Ernie Els
Ernie Els
Theodore Ernest "Ernie" Els is a South African professional golfer, who has been one of the top professional players in the world since the mid-1990s. A former World No. 1, he is known as "The Big Easy" due to his imposing physical stature along with his fluid, seemingly effortless golf swing...

,   Nick Faldo
Nick Faldo
Sir Nicholas Alexander "Nick" Faldo, MBE is an English professional golfer on the European Tour who now mainly works as an on air golf analyst. Over his career, he has won six majors: three Open Championships and three Masters. He was ranked the World No...

1992 Andrew Sherborne
Andrew Sherborne
Andrew Sherborne is an English professional golfer.Sherborne was born in Bristol. He was the leading amateur at The Open Championship in 1984 and turned professional later that year. He played on the European Tour for nearly twenty years, winning the 1991 Madrid Open and the 1992 Peugeot Spanish...

 
271   Nick Faldo
Nick Faldo
Sir Nicholas Alexander "Nick" Faldo, MBE is an English professional golfer on the European Tour who now mainly works as an on air golf analyst. Over his career, he has won six majors: three Open Championships and three Masters. He was ranked the World No...

1991 Eduardo Romero
Eduardo Romero
Eduardo Alejandro Romero is an Argentine professional golfer.Romero was born in Córdoba. He turned professional in 1982 at a relatively advanced age...

 
275PO   Seve Ballesteros
1990 Rodger Davis
Rodger Davis
Rodger Miles Davis is an Australian professional golfer.Davis was born in Sydney. He turned professional in 1974 and spent his regular career playing mainly on the PGA Tour of Australasia and the European Tour. He won the PGA Tour of Australasia Order of Merit in 1990 and 1991...

 
277   Nick Faldo
Nick Faldo
Sir Nicholas Alexander "Nick" Faldo, MBE is an English professional golfer on the European Tour who now mainly works as an on air golf analyst. Over his career, he has won six majors: three Open Championships and three Masters. He was ranked the World No...

,   Peter Fowler
Peter Fowler
Peter Randall Fowler is an Australian golfer.Fowler was born in Hornsby, New South Wales. He turned professional in 1977 and won the Australian Open in 1983. He has spent a large part of his career playing on the European Tour, where he made the top one hundred on the Order of Merit every year...

,   Bernhard Langer
Bernhard Langer
Bernhard Langer is a German professional golfer. He is a two-time Masters champion, and was one of the world's leading golfers throughout the 1980s and 90s, being the first official number one ranked player in 1986...

1989 Bernhard Langer
Bernhard Langer
Bernhard Langer is a German professional golfer. He is a two-time Masters champion, and was one of the world's leading golfers throughout the 1980s and 90s, being the first official number one ranked player in 1986...

 
281   José Maria Cañizares,   Paul Carrigill
1988 Mark James  262   Nick Faldo
Nick Faldo
Sir Nicholas Alexander "Nick" Faldo, MBE is an English professional golfer on the European Tour who now mainly works as an on air golf analyst. Over his career, he has won six majors: three Open Championships and three Masters. He was ranked the World No...

1987 Nick Faldo
Nick Faldo
Sir Nicholas Alexander "Nick" Faldo, MBE is an English professional golfer on the European Tour who now mainly works as an on air golf analyst. Over his career, he has won six majors: three Open Championships and three Masters. He was ranked the World No...

 
286   Hugh Baiocchi
Hugh Baiocchi
Hugh John Baiocchi is a South African professional golfer who has won more than twenty professional tournaments around the world....

,   Seve Ballesteros
1986 Howard Clark  272   Ian Baker-Finch
Ian Baker-Finch
Ian Michael Baker-Finch is an Australian professional golfer, who is best known for winning The Open Championship in 1991.-Early years:...

1985 Seve Ballesteros  266   Gordon Brand, Jnr
Gordon Brand, Jnr
Gordon Brand, Jnr is a Scottish professional golfer who plays on the European Tour.Brand was born in Kirkcaldy. He turned professional in 1981 and quickly achieved success. He won that year's European Tour Qualifying School, and went on to win two European Tour events in his rookie season...

Benson & Hedges Spanish Open
1984 Bernhard Langer
Bernhard Langer
Bernhard Langer is a German professional golfer. He is a two-time Masters champion, and was one of the world's leading golfers throughout the 1980s and 90s, being the first official number one ranked player in 1986...

 
275   Howard Clark
1983 Eamonn Darcy
Eamonn Darcy
Eamonn Darcy is one of the most successful golfers produced by the Republic of Ireland.Darcy was born in Delgany, County Wicklow. He turned professional in 1968 and played on the European Tour from 1972, winning four European Tour tournaments. His best years were 1975, when he came third on the...

 
277   Manuel Piñero
Manuel Piñero
Manuel Piñero Sanchez is a Spanish professional golfer.Piñero was born in Badajoz. He turned professional in 1968 and established himself on the European Tour in the early 1970s. He won nine titles on the Tour, the most prestigious of them the 1977 British PGA Championship...

1982 Sam Torrance
Sam Torrance
Sam Torrance OBE is a Scottish professional golfer and sports commentator. He was one of the leading players on the European Tour from the mid 1970s to the late 1990s, with 21 Tour wins. Torrance was a member of European Ryder Cup teams on eight occasions, from 1981 to 1995 consecutively; he was...

 
273   Roger Chapman
Roger Chapman (golfer)
Roger M. Chapman is an English professional golfer.Chapman was born in Nakuru, Kenya. He won the English Amateur in 1979 and represented Great Britain & Ireland in the 1981 Walker Cup, beating Hal Sutton twice in one day....

,   Sandy Lyle
Sandy Lyle
Alexander Walter Barr "Sandy" Lyle, MBE is a Scottish professional golfer. Lyle has won two major championships during his career. Along with Nick Faldo and Ian Woosnam, he became one of Britain's top golfers during the 1980s...

,   Ian Woosnam
Ian Woosnam
Ian Harold Woosnam OBE is a Welsh professional golfer.Nicknamed 'Woosie', 'Woosers', or the 'Wee Welshman', Woosnam was one of the "Big Five" generation of European golfers, all born within 12 months of one another, all of whom have won majors, and made Europe competitive in the Ryder Cup...

1981 Seve Ballesteros  273   Steve Martin
1980 Eddie Polland
Eddie Polland
Edward Polland is a Northern Irish professional golfer.Polland was born in Newcastle, County Down. He turned professional in 1968 and won four times on the European Tour between 1973 and 1980. He played in the Ryder Cup in 1973....

 
276   Seve Ballesteros,   Mark James
Spanish Open
1979 Dale Hayes
Dale Hayes
Dale Hayes is a South African professional golfer.-Career outline:Hayes won the 15–17 Boys category at the Junior World Golf Championships in 1969. He turned professional the following year and quickly became a successful pro. He won more than a dozen events in South Africa, and was runner up on...

 
 South Africa 278   Brian Barnes
Brian Barnes (golfer)
Brian Barnes is a professional golfer. He was born in Addington, Surrey, England, and lives in England, but he represented Scotland at the international level...

1978 Brian Barnes
Brian Barnes (golfer)
Brian Barnes is a professional golfer. He was born in Addington, Surrey, England, and lives in England, but he represented Scotland at the international level...

 
276   Howard Clark
1977 Bernard Gallacher
Bernard Gallacher
Bernard Gallacher, OBE is a Scottish professional golfer.Gallacher was born in Bathgate, Scotland. He took up golf at the age of eleven. In 1965 he won the Lothians Golf Assocation Boys Championship. He won the 1967 Scottish Amateur Open Stroke Play Championship and turned professional the same...

 
277   Francisco Abreu
Francisco Abreu
Francisco Abreu is a Spanish professional golfer.Abreu turned professional in 1968 and played on the European Tour from its first official season in 1972 until 1980. He won the 1973 German Open and the 1976 Madrid Open. His best Order of Merit finish of ninth came in 1977...

1976 Eddie Polland
Eddie Polland
Edward Polland is a Northern Irish professional golfer.Polland was born in Newcastle, County Down. He turned professional in 1968 and won four times on the European Tour between 1973 and 1980. He played in the Ryder Cup in 1973....

 
282   Bob Shearer
Bob Shearer
Robert A. Shearer is an Australian professional golfer and golf course architect.Shearer was born in Melbourne, Victoria. He won the 1969 Australian Amateur and turned pro in 1970....

1975 Arnold Palmer
Arnold Palmer
Arnold Daniel Palmer is an American professional golfer, who is generally regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of men's professional golf. He has won numerous events on both the PGA Tour and Champions Tour, dating back to 1955...

 
283   John Fourie
John Fourie
Jonathan Adriaan Fourie is a South African professional golfer.Fourie was born in Johannesburg. He turned professional in 1970 and spent his career playing mainly on the Southern Africa Tour and the European Tour. He won ten times on the Southern Africa Tour, including one win as an amateur...

1974 Jerry Heard
Jerry Heard
Jerry M. Heard is an American professional golfer who won several PGA Tour events in the 1970s.Heard was born in Visalia, California. He became a professional golfer in 1968 and joined the PGA Tour in 1969. His first professional win came in the American Golf Classic at the Firestone Country Club...

 
279   Gary Player
Gary Player
Gary Player DMS; OIG is a South African professional golfer. With his nine major championship victories, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of golf. He was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1974. Player has won 165 tournaments on six continents over six...

1973 Neil Coles
Neil Coles
Neil Chapman Coles, MBE is an English professional golfer. As of 2005, Coles is only the second man to win a professional golf tournament in six different decades, starting in the 1950s and extending into the 21st century.Coles was born in England...

 
282   Tienie Britz
Tienie Britz
Tienie Britz is a South African golfer.Britz was born in Johannesburg. He won the South African PGA Championship in 1971 and he has played extensively on the European Tour and the European Seniors Tour...

,   Craig Defoy
1972 Antonio Garrido  293   Valentin Barrios
1971 Dale Hayes
Dale Hayes
Dale Hayes is a South African professional golfer.-Career outline:Hayes won the 15–17 Boys category at the Junior World Golf Championships in 1969. He turned professional the following year and quickly became a successful pro. He won more than a dozen events in South Africa, and was runner up on...

 
 South Africa 275   Roberto De Vicenzo
1970 Ángel Gallardo
Angel Gallardo
Ángel Gallardo is a Spanish professional golfer.Gallardo was a member of the European Tour from its first official season in 1972 until 1982. He finished in the top one hundred of the European Tour Order of Merit in each of those eleven seasons, with a best ranking of tenth in 1977...

 
284
1969 Jean Garaïalde
Jean Garaïalde
Jean Garaïalde is a French professional golfer.Garaïalde was born in Ciboure, Pyrénées-Atlantiques. He turned professional in 1952. In 1969, he became the first French golfer since Firmin Cavalo in 1948 to claim his own national open...

 
283
1968 Bob Shaw
Bob Shaw (golfer)
Robert J. Shaw is an Australian professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour in the 1970s.Shaw was born in Sydney. He turned professional in 1965.Shaw played in Europe in the 1960s, winning the Spanish Open in 1968...

 
286
1967 Sebastián Miguel
Sebastián Miguel
Sebastián Miguel was a Spanish professional golfer.Miguel was born in Madrid. He won several major tournaments around Europe during the 1950s and 60s, including the Spanish Open in 1954, 1960 and 1967 and the Portuguese Open in 1959...

 
265
1966 Roberto De Vicenzo  279   Bernard Hunt
Bernard Hunt
Bernard John Hunt, MBE is an English professional golfer.Hunt was born in Atherstone, Warwickshire. He turned professional in 1946 and was a leading player on the European circuit in the 1950s and 1960s. He topped the Order of Merit, which was then points-based, in 1958, 1960 and 1965...

1965 No tournament
1964 Ángel Miguel
Ángel Miguel
Ángel Miguel was a Spanish professional golfer. He is often regarded as one of the pioneers of golf in Spain....

 
272
1963 Ramón Sota
Ramón Sota
Ramón Sota Ocejo is a Spanish professional golfer.Sota was born in Pedreña, Cantabria. He won many professional tournaments around the world including some of the major national opens around Europe that formed the basis of the European Tour when it was formed in 1972. Those wins included his own...

 
287
1962 No tournament
1961 Ángel Miguel
Ángel Miguel
Ángel Miguel was a Spanish professional golfer. He is often regarded as one of the pioneers of golf in Spain....

 
267
1960 Sebastián Miguel
Sebastián Miguel
Sebastián Miguel was a Spanish professional golfer.Miguel was born in Madrid. He won several major tournaments around Europe during the 1950s and 60s, including the Spanish Open in 1954, 1960 and 1967 and the Portuguese Open in 1959...

 
286
1959 Peter Thomson  286
1958 Peter Alliss
Peter Alliss
Peter Alliss is an English professional golfer, BBC television presenter and commentator, author and golf course designer. Alliss is known for his charismatic and unique style of commentary, often displaying a witty demeanour...

 
268
1957 Max Faulkner
Max Faulkner
Herbert Gustavus Max Faulkner, OBE was an English professional golfer who won The Open Championship in 1951 and was renowned for his colourful dress sense....

 
283
1956 Peter Alliss
Peter Alliss
Peter Alliss is an English professional golfer, BBC television presenter and commentator, author and golf course designer. Alliss is known for his charismatic and unique style of commentary, often displaying a witty demeanour...

 
285
1955 Conde de Lamaze (am) 271   Ángel Miguel
Ángel Miguel
Ángel Miguel was a Spanish professional golfer. He is often regarded as one of the pioneers of golf in Spain....

1954 Sebastián Miguel
Sebastián Miguel
Sebastián Miguel was a Spanish professional golfer.Miguel was born in Madrid. He won several major tournaments around Europe during the 1950s and 60s, including the Spanish Open in 1954, 1960 and 1967 and the Portuguese Open in 1959...

 
268
1953 Max Faulkner
Max Faulkner
Herbert Gustavus Max Faulkner, OBE was an English professional golfer who won The Open Championship in 1951 and was renowned for his colourful dress sense....

 
271
1952 Max Faulkner
Max Faulkner
Herbert Gustavus Max Faulkner, OBE was an English professional golfer who won The Open Championship in 1951 and was renowned for his colourful dress sense....

 
275
1951 Mariano Provencio  281   Henry de Lamaze (am)
1950 Antonio Cerdá
Antonio Cerdá
Antonio Cerdá is an Argentine professional golfer.Cerdá finished second in the 1951 British Open to Max Faulkner, and second in the 1953 British Open to Ben Hogan, among seven consecutive top-ten finishes in the championship. He won several national opens in Europe in the 1950s and won the first...

 
1949 Marcelino Morcillo  280
1948 Marcelino Morcillo  268
1947 Mario Gonzalez (am) 277   Marcelino Morcillo
1946 Marcelino Morcillo  281
1945 Carlos Celles  274
1944 Nicasio Sagardia 
1943 Mariano Provencio  286
1942 Gabriel Gonzalez  264
1941 Mariano Provencio  283
1940 Gabriel González 
1936-39 No tournament
1935 Tomás Cayarga  279   Mariano Provencio
1934 Mariano Provencio  276   Francisco Alonso
1933 Gabriel Gonzalez  270   Francisco Alonso
1932 Gabriel Gonzalez  272   Tomás Cayarga
1931 No tournament
1930 Joaquin Bernardino  291   Gabriel Gonzalez
1929 Eugène Lafitte  285   R. Golias
1928 Arnaud Massy
Arnaud Massy
Arnaud Massy was one of France's most successful professional golfers.Massy was born in Biarritz, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France...

 
278   Ernesto Céspedes
1927 Arnaud Massy
Arnaud Massy
Arnaud Massy was one of France's most successful professional golfers.Massy was born in Biarritz, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France...

 
1926 Joaquin Bernardino  283   Emilio Cayarga
1925 Angel de la Torre
Angel de la Torre
Angel de la Torre was a Spanish professional golfer and golf instructor. He was Spain's first golf professional and his five victories in the Spanish Open between 1916 and 1925 still stands as an unequalled record....

 
1924 No tournament
1923 Angel de la Torre
Angel de la Torre
Angel de la Torre was a Spanish professional golfer and golf instructor. He was Spain's first golf professional and his five victories in the Spanish Open between 1916 and 1925 still stands as an unequalled record....

 
1922 No tournament
1921 Eugène Lafitte  296   Angel de la Torre
Angel de la Torre
Angel de la Torre was a Spanish professional golfer and golf instructor. He was Spain's first golf professional and his five victories in the Spanish Open between 1916 and 1925 still stands as an unequalled record....

1920 No tournament
1919 Angel de la Torre
Angel de la Torre
Angel de la Torre was a Spanish professional golfer and golf instructor. He was Spain's first golf professional and his five victories in the Spanish Open between 1916 and 1925 still stands as an unequalled record....

 
304   Jean Gassiat
1918 No tournament
1917 Angel de la Torre
Angel de la Torre
Angel de la Torre was a Spanish professional golfer and golf instructor. He was Spain's first golf professional and his five victories in the Spanish Open between 1916 and 1925 still stands as an unequalled record....

 
288   Claude Gassiat
1916 Angel de la Torre
Angel de la Torre
Angel de la Torre was a Spanish professional golfer and golf instructor. He was Spain's first golf professional and his five victories in the Spanish Open between 1916 and 1925 still stands as an unequalled record....

 
293   Richard Aitken
1913-15 No tournament
1912 Arnaud Massy
Arnaud Massy
Arnaud Massy was one of France's most successful professional golfers.Massy was born in Biarritz, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France...

 

Multiple winners

Thirteen men have won the tournament more than once through 2011.
  • 5 wins
    • Angel de la Torre
      Angel de la Torre
      Angel de la Torre was a Spanish professional golfer and golf instructor. He was Spain's first golf professional and his five victories in the Spanish Open between 1916 and 1925 still stands as an unequalled record....

      : 1916, 1917, 1919, 1923, 1925
  • 4 wins
    • Mariano Provencio: 1934, 1941, 1943, 1951
    • Gabriel Gonzalez: 1932, 1933, 1940, 1942
  • 3 wins
    • Arnaud Massy
      Arnaud Massy
      Arnaud Massy was one of France's most successful professional golfers.Massy was born in Biarritz, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France...

      : 1912, 1927, 1928
    • Joaquin Bernardino: 1926, 1930, 1934
    • Marcelino Morcillo: 1946, 1948, 1949
    • Mariano Provencio: 1941, 1943, 1951
    • Max Faulkner
      Max Faulkner
      Herbert Gustavus Max Faulkner, OBE was an English professional golfer who won The Open Championship in 1951 and was renowned for his colourful dress sense....

      : 1952, 1953, 1957
    • Sebastián Miguel
      Sebastián Miguel
      Sebastián Miguel was a Spanish professional golfer.Miguel was born in Madrid. He won several major tournaments around Europe during the 1950s and 60s, including the Spanish Open in 1954, 1960 and 1967 and the Portuguese Open in 1959...

      : 1954, 1960, 1967
    • Seve Ballesteros: 1981, 1985, 1995
  • 2 wins
    • Eugène Lafitte: 1921, 1929
    • Peter Alliss
      Peter Alliss
      Peter Alliss is an English professional golfer, BBC television presenter and commentator, author and golf course designer. Alliss is known for his charismatic and unique style of commentary, often displaying a witty demeanour...

      : 1956, 1958
    • Ángel Miguel
      Ángel Miguel
      Ángel Miguel was a Spanish professional golfer. He is often regarded as one of the pioneers of golf in Spain....

      : 1961, 1964
    • Dale Hayes
      Dale Hayes
      Dale Hayes is a South African professional golfer.-Career outline:Hayes won the 15–17 Boys category at the Junior World Golf Championships in 1969. He turned professional the following year and quickly became a successful pro. He won more than a dozen events in South Africa, and was runner up on...

      : 1971, 1979
    • Eddie Polland
      Eddie Polland
      Edward Polland is a Northern Irish professional golfer.Polland was born in Newcastle, County Down. He turned professional in 1968 and won four times on the European Tour between 1973 and 1980. He played in the Ryder Cup in 1973....

      : 1976, 1980
    • Bernhard Langer
      Bernhard Langer
      Bernhard Langer is a German professional golfer. He is a two-time Masters champion, and was one of the world's leading golfers throughout the 1980s and 90s, being the first official number one ranked player in 1986...

      : 1984, 1989
    • Mark James: 1988, 1997

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