Italian Open (golf)

Italian Open

Tournament information
Location	Turin, Italy
Established	1925
Course(s)	Golf Club Torino
Par	72
Length	7,208 yards (6,591 m)
Tour(s)	European Tour
Format	Stroke play
Prize fund	€1,500,000
Month played	September
Tournament record score
Aggregate	262 Percy Alliss (1935)
To par	–25 Hennie Otto (2008)
Current champion
Julien Quesne

The Italian Open is the Italian national open golf championship for men. It was founded in 1925 and has been part of the European Tour's schedule since the tour's first season in 1972.

The Italian Open is currently played in September at the Golf Club Torino near Turin. In 2013 it had a prize fund of €1.5 million, which was one of the smaller purses among the European Tour events played in Europe itself.

In 2008, South African Hennie Otto was just one stroke away from the tournament aggregate record of 262, set by Percy Alliss in 1935 on the course at Sanremo, which even by the standards of the day was relatively short, at just 5,200 yards.^[1]

Winners

Year	Winner	Score	Venue
Italian Open Lindt
2013	Julien Quesne	276 (–12)	GC Torino
BMW Italian Open
2012	Gonzalo Fernández-Castaño	264 (−24)	Royal Park i Roveri
2011	Robert Rock	267 (−21)	Royal Park i Roveri
2010	Fredrik Andersson Hed	268 (−16)	Royal Park i Roveri
2009	Daniel Vancsik	267 (−17)	Royal Park i Roveri
Methorios Capital Italian Open
2008	Hennie Otto	263 (−25)	Castello di Tolcinasco Golf & CC
Telecom Italia Open
2007*	Gonzalo Fernández-Castaño	200 (−16)PO	Castello di Tolcinasco Golf & CC
2006	Francesco Molinari	265 (−23)	Castello di Tolcinasco Golf & CC
2005	Steve Webster	270 (−18)	Castello di Tolcinasco Golf & CC
2004*	Graeme McDowell	197 (−19)PO	Castello di Tolcinasco Golf & CC
Italian Open Telecom Italia
2003	Mathias Grönberg	271 (−17)	Gardagolf Country Club
2002*	Ian Poulter	197 (−19)	Olgiata GC
Atlanet Italian Open
2001	Grégory Havret	268 (−20)	Is Molas
Italian Open
2000	Ian Poulter	267 (−21)	Is Molas
Fiat and Fila Italian Open
1999	Dean Robertson	271 (−17)	GC Torino
Italian Open
1998*	Patrik Sjöland	195 (−21)	GC Castelconturbia
Conte of Florence Italian Open
1997	Bernhard Langer	273 (−15)	Gardagolf Country Club
1996	Jim Payne	275 (−9)	Golf Club Bergamo
Italian Open
1995	Sam Torrance	269 (−19)	GC Le Rovedine
Tisettanta Italian Open
1994	Eduardo Romero	272 (−16)	Golf Marco Simone
Lancia Martini Italian Open
1993	Greg Turner	267 (−21)	Modena Golf & CC
1992	Sandy Lyle	270 (−18)	GC Monticello
1991	Craig Parry	279(−9)	GC Castelconturbia
1990	Richard Boxall	267 (−21)	GC Milano
Lancia Italian Open
1989	Ronan Rafferty	273 (−15)	GC Monticello
1988	Greg Norman	270 (−18)	GC Monticello
1987	Sam Torrance	271 (−17)PO	GC Monticello
Italian Open
1986	David Feherty	270 (−10)PO	Albarella GC
1985	Manuel Piñero	267 (−21)	Molinetto CC
1984	Sandy Lyle	277 (−11)	GC Milano
1983	Bernhard Langer	271 (−17)PO	GC Ugolino
1982	Mark James	280 (−8)	Is Molas Resort
1981	José Maria Cañizares	280 (−8)PO	GC Milano
1980	Massimo Mannelli	276 (−8)	CG Roma
1979	Brian Barnes	281 (−7)PO	GC Monticello
1978	Dale Hayes	293 (+5)	Pevero GC
1977	Ángel Gallardo	286 (−2)PO	GC Monticello
1976	Baldovino Dassù	280 (−8)	Is Molas Resort
1975	Billy Casper	286 (−2)	GC Monticello
1974**	Peter Oosterhuis	249	CG Venezia
1973	Tony Jacklin	284 (−4)	CG Roma
1972	Norman Wood	271	CG Villa d'Este
1971	Ramón Sota	282	CG Garlenda
1961–70	No tournament
1960	Brian Wilkes	285	CG Venezia
1959	Peter Thomson	269	CG Villa d'Este
1958	Peter Alliss	282	CG Varese
1957	Harold Henning	273	CG Villa d'Este
1956	Antonio Cerdá	284	GC Milano
1955	Flory Van Donck	287	CG Venezia
1954	Ugo Grappasonni	272	CG Villa d'Este
1953	Flory Van Donck	267	CG Villa d'Este
1952	Eric Brown	273	GC Milano
1951	Jimmy Adams	289	GC Milano
1950	Ugo Grappasonni	281	CG Roma
1949	Hassan Hassanein	263	CG Villa d'Este
1948	Aldo Casera	267	CG degli Ulivi Sanremo
1947	Flory Van Donck	263	CG degli Ulivi Sanremo
1939–46	No tournament due to World War II
1938	Flory Van Donck	276	CG Villa d'Este
1937	Marcel Dallemagne	276	CG degli Ulivi Sanremo
1936	Henry Cotton	268	CG Sestriere
1935	Percy Alliss	262	CG degli Ulivi Sanremo
1934	N. Nutley	132	CG degli Ulivi Sanremo
1933	No tournament
1932	Aubrey Boomer	143	CG Villa d'Este
1931	Auguste Boyer	141	CG Villa d'Este
1930	Auguste Boyer	140	CG Villa d'Este
1929	René Golias	143	CG Villa d'Este
1928	Auguste Boyer	145	CG Villa d'Este
1927	Percy Alliss	145	Alpino GC
1926	Auguste Boyer	147	Alpino GC
1925	Francesco Pasquali	154	Alpino GC

* – 2002, 2004, and 2007 tournaments shortened to three rounds because of rain.
** – Just nine holes played in the first round of the 1974 tournament.

Multiple winners

• 4 wins
  • Auguste Boyer: 1926, 1928, 1930, 1931
  • Flory Van Donck: 1938, 1947, 1953, 1955
• 2 wins
  • Percy Alliss: 1927, 1935
  • Ugo Grappasonni: 1950, 1954
  • Sandy Lyle: 1984, 1992
  • Sam Torrance: 1987, 1995
  • Ian Poulter: 2000, 2002
  • Gonzalo Fernández-Castaño: 2007, 2012

References

External links

• Coverage on the European Tour's official site