Wales Open

ISPS Handa Wales Open

Tournament information
Location	Newport, Wales, U.K.
Established	2000
Course(s)	Celtic Manor Resort Twenty-Ten Course
Par	71
Length	7,352 yards (6,723 m)[1]
Tour(s)	European Tour
Format	Stroke play
Prize fund	£1,800,000
Month played	September
Final year	2014
Tournament record score
Aggregate	260 Robert Karlsson (2006)
To par	−22 Scott Strange (2008)
Final champion
Joost Luiten

The Wales Open was a professional golf tournament on the European Tour. It was founded in 2000 and played annually through 2014. The event was hosted at the Celtic Manor Resort in the city of Newport, South Wales, also the venue for the 2010 Ryder Cup. The tournament was originally played over the resort's Wentwood Hills course, through 2004. While that course was being redeveloped for the Ryder Cup, the Wales Open was played for three years (2005–07) on the Roman Road course, a par-69 venue. Since 2008, the event has been played on the Ryder Cup Twenty-Ten course. The tournament has previously been known as the Saab Wales Open and the Celtic Manor Wales Open due to past sponsorship deals.

ISPS Handa (International Sports Promotion Society) became the title sponsor in 2012 and the prize fund that year was £1.8 million.^[2]

Records

In 2006, Sweden's Robert Karlsson broke the European Tour's 36-hole and 54-hole scoring records by shooting 124 for the first two rounds and 189 for the first three. However, as the Roman Road course was a par-69, rare at the professional level, his to-par scores were slightly less remarkable 14-under after two rounds and 18-under after three. Karlsson shot two-over-par for the final round, but still won. In the same year, Phillip Archer posted a score of 60 in the first round, which would have been a 59 but for a missed birdie putt on the 18th green.

Course

The 2013 course layout, at the Twenty-Ten Course of the Celtic Manor Resort^[1]

Winners

Year	Winner	Country	Score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up	Purse (€)	Winner's share (€)
ISPS Handa Wales Open
2014	Joost Luiten	Netherlands	270	−14	1 stroke	Tommy Fleetwood Shane Lowry	2,254,680	375,780
2013	Grégory Bourdy	France	276	−8	2 strokes	Peter Uihlein	2,101,373	348,660
2012	Thongchai Jaidee	Thailand	278	−6	1 stroke	Thomas Bjørn Gonzalo Fernández-Castaño Joost Luiten Richard Sterne	2,229,228	372,720
Saab Wales Open
2011	Alexander Norén	Sweden	275	−9	2 strokes	Grégory Bourdy Anders Hansen	2,040,689	344,358
Celtic Manor Wales Open
2010	Graeme McDowell	Netherlands	269	−15	3 strokes	Rhys Davies	2,118,254	350,940
2009	Jeppe Huldahl	Denmark	275	−9	1 stroke	Niclas Fasth	2,073,926	343,086
2008	Scott Strange	Australia	262	−22	4 strokes	Robert Karlsson	2,270,187	376,671
2007	Richard Sterne	South Africa	263	−13	1 stroke	Bradley Dredge Søren Kjeldsen Mardan Mamat Mads Vibe-Hastrup	2,216,194	368,812
2006	Robert Karlsson	Sweden	260	−16	3 strokes	Paul Broadhurst	2,177,968	364,352
2005	Miguel Ángel Jiménez	Spain	262	−14	4 strokes	Martin Erlandsson José Manuel Lara	2,207,900	362,568
2004	Simon Khan	England	267	−21	Playoff	Paul Casey	2,274,124	375,092
Celtic Manor Resort Wales Open
2003	Ian Poulter	England	270	−18	3 strokes	Darren Fichardt Jonathan Lomas Jarrod Moseley	2,112,186	347,360
2002	Paul Lawrie	Scotland	272	−16	5 strokes	John Bickerton	1,753,869	291,432
2001	Paul McGinley	Ireland	138*	−6	Playoff	Paul Lawrie Daren Lee	1,228,125	201,685
2000	Steen Tinning	Denmark	273	−15	1 stroke	David Howell	1,213,353	199,839

* - Tournament was reduced to 36 holes in 2001 due to bad weather.

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See also

• Wales Seniors Open – a European Seniors Tour event.
• Wales Ladies Championship of Europe – a former event on the Ladies European Tour

References

External links

• Official website
• Coverage on the European Tour's official site
• Celtic Manor Resort - golf
• ISPS Golf

Coordinates: 51°36′27″N 2°56′00″W / 51.60750°N 2.93333°W / 51.60750; -2.93333