Portuguese Open
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The Portuguese Open, currently known for sponsorship reasons as the Estoril Open de Portugal Caixa Geral de Depositos, is an annual tournament on men's golf's European Tour. It has been played since 1953, with a few skipped years, and has been part of the European Tour's schedule since the Tour's first official season in 1972. It is played in late March or early April each year, and is one of the first European Tour events of the season to be played in Europe, after the season has spent the northern winter in Asia, Australasia and South Africa. In 2006 the prize fund was €1.25 million, which is one of the smaller purses on the European Tour.
[edit] Winners
Algarve Open de Portugal Caixa Geral de Depositos
- 2006 Paul Broadhurst - England
Estoril Open de Portugal Caixa Geral de Depositos
- 2005 Paul Broadhurst - England
Algarve Open de Portugal Caixa Geral de Depositos
- 2004 Miguel Angel Jiménez - Spain
Algarve Open de Portugal
- 2003 Fredrik Jacobson - Sweden
- 2002 Carl Pettersson - Sweden
- 2001 Phillip Price - Wales
Algarve Portuguese Open
- 2000 Gary Orr - Scotland
- 1999 Van Phillips - England
Portuguese Open
- 1998 Peter Mitchell - England
- 1997 Michael Jonzon - Sweden
- 1996 Wayne Riley - Australia
- 1995 Adam Hunter - Scotland
- 1994 Phillip Price - Wales
- 1993 David Gilford - England
- 1992 Ronan Rafferty - Northern Ireland
- 1991 Steven Richardson - England
Portuguese Open TPC
- 1990 Michael McLean - England
- 1989 Colin Montgomerie - Scotland
Portuguese Open
- 1988 Mike Harwood - Australia
- 1987 Robert Lee - England
- 1986 Mark McNulty - Zimbabwe (later became an Irish citizen)
- 1985 Warren Humphreys - England
- 1984 Tony Johnstone - Zimbabwe
- 1983 Sam Torrance - Scotland
- 1982 Sam Torrance - Scotland
- 1981 No tournament
- 1980 No tournament
- 1979 Brian Barnes - Scotland
- 1978 Howard Clark - England
- 1977 Manuel Ramos - Spain
- 1976 Salvador Balbuena - Spain
- 1975 Hal Underwood - United States
- 1974 Brian Huggett - Wales
- 1973 Jaime Benito - Spain
- 1972 German Garrido - Spain
(Victories before 1972 are not official European Tour wins)
- 1971 Lionel Platts - England
- 1970 Ramón Sota - Spain
- 1969 Ramón Sota - Spain
- 1968 Max Faulkner - England
- 1967 Angel Gallardo - Spain
- 1966 Alfonso Angelini - Italy
- 1965 No tournament
- 1964 Angel Miguel - Spain
- 1963 Ramón Sota - Spain
- 1962 Alfonso Angelini - Italy
- 1961 Ken Bousfield - England
- 1960 Ken Bousfield - England
- 1959 Sebastian Miguel - Spain
- 1958 Peter Alliss - England
- 1957 No tournament
- 1956 Angel Miguel - Spain
- 1955 Flory Van Donck - Belgium
- 1954 Angel Miguel - Spain
- 1953 Eric Brown - Scotland
[edit] External links
- Coverage on the European Tour's official site - use the schedule browser on the right to access other years.
