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Dates: Thursday, April 19th through Sunday, April 22nd
Site: Campo del Golf El Saler, Valencia, Spain.
Par: 72
Yardage: 6,952
Hole-By-Hole: 1 - Par 4 428 Yds 10 - Par 4 399 Yds
2 - Par 4 376 Yds 11 - Par 5 570 Yds
3 - Par 5 531 Yds 12 - Par 3 198 Yds
4 - Par 3 189 Yds 13 - Par 4 348 Yds
5 - Par 5 515 Yds 14 - Par 4 413 Yds
6 - Par 4 442 Yds 15 - Par 5 564 Yds
7 - Par 4 358 Yds 16 - Par 4 427 Yds
8 - Par 4 359 Yds 17 - Par 3 213 Yds
9 - Par 3 156 Yds 18 - Par 4 466 Yds
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36 3,354 Yds 36 3,598 Yds
Annual: 75th
Defending Champion: Brian Davis
Runner-Up: Markus Brier
Tournament Record: 262 (Mark James, 1988)
18-Hole Record: 61 (Wayne Riley, 1988)
Total Purse: $1,056,385
Shares: 1st Place - $176,590; 2nd Place - 117,724 ; 3rd Place - 66,330
2000 Finish
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Player Score Player Score
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Brian Davis 274 Gary Orr 280
Markus Brier 277 Carlos Rodiles 281
Eduardo Romero 278 Gary Evans 281
Peter Baker 278 Niclas Fasth 281
Colin Montgomerie 279 Paolo Quirici 282
Van Phillips 282
Past Via Digital Open de Espana Winners and Runners-up
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2000 -- Brian Davis (274) -- Markus Brier
1999 -- Jarmo Sandelin (267) -- Miguel Angel Jimenez, Paul McGinley,
Ignacio Garrido
1998 -- Thomas Bjorn (267) -- Greg Chalmers, Jose Maria Olazabal
1997 -- *Mark James (277) -- Greg Norman
1996 -- Padraig Harrington (272) -- Gordon Brand, Jr.
1995 -- Seve Ballesteros (274) -- Jose Rivero, Ignacio Garrido
1994 -- Colin Montgomerie (277) -- Richard Boxall, Mark Roe, Mark McNulty
1993 -- Joakim Haeggman (275) -- Nick Faldo, Ernie Els
1992 -- Andrew Sherborne (271) -- Nick Faldo
1991 -- *Eduardo Romero (275) -- Seve Ballesteros
1990 -- Rodger Davis (277) -- Nick Faldo, Bernhard Langer, Peter Fowler
1989 -- Bernhard Langer (281) -- Paul Carrigill, Jose Maria Canizares
1988 -- Mark James (262) -- Nick Faldo
1987 -- Nick Faldo (286) -- Hugh Baiocchi, Seve Ballesteros
1986 -- Howard Clark (272) -- Ian Baker-Finch
1985 -- Seve Ballesteros (266) -- Gordon Brand, Jr.
1984 -- Bernhard Langer (275) -- Howard Clark
1983 -- Eamonn Darcy (277) -- Manuel Pinero
1982 -- Sam Torrance (273) -- Roger Chapman, Sandy Lyle, Ian Woosnam
1981 -- Seve Ballesteros (273) -- Steve Martin
1980 -- Eddie Polland (276) -- Seve Ballesteros, Mark James
1979 -- Dale Hayes (278) -- Brian Barnes
1978 -- Brian Barnes (276) -- Howard Clark
1977 -- Bernard Gallacher (277) -- Francisco Abreu
1976 -- Eddie Polland (282) -- Bob Shearer
1975 -- Arnold Palmer (283) -- John Fourie
1974 -- Jerry Heard (279) -- Gary Player
1973 -- Neil Coles (282) -- Tienie Britz, Craig Defoy
1972 -- *Antonio Garrido (293)
1971 -- D.Hayes (275) -- Robert de Vicenzo
1970 -- A.Gallardo (284)
1969 -- J.Garaialde (283) 1968 -- R.Shaw (286)
1967 -- S.Miguel (265) 1966 -- Roberto de Vicenzo (279)
1965 -- Not Held 1964 -- A.Miguel (272)
1963 -- R.Sota (287) 1962 -- Not Held
1961 -- A.Miguel (267) 1960 -- S.Miguel (286)
1959 -- Peter Thomson (286) 1958 -- Peter Alliss (268)
1957 -- Max Faulkner (283) 1956 -- Peter Alliss (285)
1955 -- H.de Lamaze (271) (amateur) 1954 -- S.Miguel (268)
1953 -- Max Faulkner (NA) 1952 -- Max Faulkner (275)
1951 -- M.Provencio (281) 1950 -- A.Cerda (NA)
1949 -- M.Morcillo (280) 1948 -- M.Morcillo (268)
1947 -- M.Gonzalez (272) (amateur) 1946 -- M.Morcillo (281)
1945 -- C.Celles (274) 1944 -- N.Sagardia (NA)
1943 -- M.Provencio (286) 1942 -- G.Gonzalez (264)
1941 -- M.Provencio (283) 1940 -- Not Held
1939 -- Not Held 1938 -- Not Held
1937 -- Not Held 1936 -- Not Held
1935 -- A. de la Torre (NA) 1934 -- J.Bernardino (NA)
1933 -- G.Gonzalez (NA) 1932 -- G.Gonzalez (NA)
1931 -- Not Held 1930 -- J.Bernardino (NA)
1929 -- E.Lafitte (NA) 1928 -- Arnaud Massy (NA)
1927 -- A.Massy (NA) 1926 -- J.Bernardino (NA)
1925 -- A. de la Torre (NA) 1924 -- Not Held
1923 -- A. de la Torre (NA) 1922 -- Not Held
1921 -- E.Lafitte (NA) 1920 -- Not Held
1919 -- A. de la torre (NA) 1918 -- Not Held
1917 -- A. de la torre (NA) 1916 -- A. de la Torre (NA)
1915 -- Not Held 1914 -- Not Held
1913 -- Not Held 1912 -- Arnaud Massy (NA)
* - won in playoff.
NA - Total score not available.
Note: Formerly called Peugeot Open de Espana (1994, 97-2000), Peugeot
Spanish Open (1986-93, 95-96), Benson & Hedges Spanish Open
(1980-85), Spanish Open (1971-79).
Top Contenders in the Field
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Brian Davis - Defending champion, 39th on money list, 2 top-10's
Seve Ballesteros - Three time winner and runner-up at this event
Darren Clarke - Seven-time winner on European Tour, no top-10's in 2001
Sergio Garcia - Has only 1 top-10 finish in US in seven events
Miguel A Jimenez - Has made only 4 of 9 cuts on PGA Tour this season
Peter Lonard - Shot 66-68 over the weekend in Morocco to place 3rd
Jose M Olazabal - Made 7 of 9 US cuts with no top-10's, 46th in money
Ian Poulter - Won last week's Moroccan Open, 12th on money list
Phillip Price - 43rd on Order of Merit with only 1 top-10 finish
Justin Rose - Two-time runner-up this season, 9th on money list
Sam Torrance - Ryder Cup captain playing in his 2nd event of 2001
Ian Woosnam - Made 2 of 3 cuts this year with one top-10 finish
Golftoday Network Selections
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Pick to Win - Darren Clarke
Darkhorse - Diego Borrego
Last Week's Pick to Win (Paul McGinley) - Finished tied for 8th
Last Week's Darkhorse (Nic Henning) - Finished tied for 48th
NOTES:
Brian Davis became the ninth first-time winner on the European Tour
last year when he captured the Peugeot Open de Espaņa at the PGA Golf de
Catalunya in Girona, Spain. The 25-year-old Londoner from Enfield fired a
closing three-under par 69 for a total of 274, to win his first title and
also the biggest check of his career. Markus Brier finished alone in second,
three strokes behind Davis. 1991 champion Eduardo Romero and Peter Baker
tied for third as Baker fired a course-record 64 and Romero closed with 71.
Sergio Garcia made his professional debut at this event in 1999, tying for
25th. Max Faulkner was the last player to win this event two straight years,
accomplishing the feat in 1952-53. Seve Ballesteros is a three-time winner
of this event, which began in 1912 and has been runner-up three times. Nick
Faldo captured this tournament in 1987 and has finished second three times.
El Saler, sculpted out of rugged linksland close to the Mediterranean, last
hosted a European Tour event in 1996 when Diego Borrego of Spain captured his
first Tour victory in the Turespaņa Masters Open Comunitat Valenciana
Paradores de Turismo. The man from Malaga shot rounds of 66-67-69-69 for a 17
under par total of 271, which tied Zimbabwe's Tony Johnstone. Borrego went on
to claim the title at the second hole of a sudden-death play-off. The European
Tour moves to Portugal next week for the Algarve Portuguese Open won last year
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