Challenge Tour Grand Final

Golf tournament

Rolex Challenge Tour Grand FinalTournament information

Location| Port d'Alcúdia, Mallorca, Spain
Established| 1995
Course(s)| Club de Golf Alcanada
Par| 72
Length| 7,128 yards (6,518 m)
Tour(s)| Challenge Tour
Format| Stroke play
Prize fund| €500,000
Month played| October/November
Tournament record score
Aggregate| 265 Espen Kofstad (2012)
265 Kristoffer Reitan (2024)
To par| −23 Kristoffer Reitan (2024)
Current champion
Kristoffer Reitan
Location map

Club de Golf Alcanada

Location in Spain

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Club de Golf Alcanada

Location in the Balearic Islands

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Club de Golf Alcanada

Location in Mallorca

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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

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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

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| Challenge Tour (Tour Championship)  | 1995–2009, 2022–
# | Year | Winner | Score | To par | Margin of
victory | Runner(s)-up | Venue

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

## External links

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* Coverage on the Challenge Tour's official site

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(C) - co-sanctioned by the China Tour; (I) - co-sanctioned by the Professional Golf Tour of India; (S) - co-sanctioned by the Sunshine Tour.
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