Dates: Thursday, October 28th through Sunday, October 31st Site: Montecastillo 
Hotel & Golf Resort, Jerez, Spain Course Architect: Jack Nicklaus (1992) Par: 
72 Yardage: 7,058 Hole-by-Hole: 1 - Par 4 385 Yds 10 - Par 4 410 Yds 2 - Par 3 
221 Yds 11 - Par 3 234 Yds 3 - Par 5 564 Yds 12 - Par 5 522 Yds 4 - Par 4 381 
Yds 13 - Par 4 424 Yds 5 - Par 4 416 Yds 14 - Par 3 172 Yds 6 - Par 4 413 Yds 
15 - Par 4 464 Yds 7 - Par 4 432 Yds 16 - Par 5 517 Yds 8 - Par 3 190 Yds 17 - 
Par 4 374 Yds 9 - Par 5 517 Yds 18 - Par 4 422 Yds ------------- ------------- 
36 3,519 Yds 36 3,539 Yds Annual: 12th Defending Champion: Darren Clarke Runner-Up: 
Andrew Coltart Tournament Record: 271 (Darren Clarke, 1998) 54-Hole Record: 200 
(Lee Westwood, 1997) 36-Hole Record: 132 (Lee Westwood, Patrik Sjoland, 1997) 
18-Hole Record: 62 (Bernhard Langer, 1994) Course Record: 63 (Per-Ulrik Johansson, 
1997; Darren Clarke, 1998) Total Purse: 1,820,000 (euros) Shares: 1st Place - 
303,350; 2nd Place - 202,300; 3rd Place - 113,930 1998 Finish ----------- Player 
Score Player Score ------ ----- ------ ----- Darren Clarke 271 Bernhard Langer 
276 Andrew Coltart 273 Jose Maria Olzabal 278 Colin Montgomerie 274 Craig Hainline 
278 Peter O'Malley 275 Robert Allenby 279 Peter Baker 275 Sam Torrance 279 Ernie 
Els 279 Past Volvo Masters Winners and Runners-up ----------------------------------------- 
1998 -- Darren Clarke (271) -- Andrew Coltart 1997 -- #Lee Westwood (200) -- Padraig 
Harrington 1996 -- Mark McNulty (276) -- J.Coceres, S.Torrance, W.Westner, L.Westwood 
1995 -- Alex Cejka (282) -- Colin Montgomerie 1994 -- Bernhard Langer (276) -- 
Seve Ballesteros, Vijay Singh 1993 -- Colin Montgomerie (274) -- Darren Clarke 
1992 -- *Sandy Lyle (287) -- Colin Montgomerie 1991 -- Rodger Davis (280) -- Nick 
Faldo 1990 -- Mike Harwood (286) -- Steven Richardson, Sam Torrance 1989 -- Ronan 
Rafferty (282) -- Nick Faldo 1988 -- Nick Faldo (284) * - Won in Playoff. # - 
Shortened to 54 holes. Top players competing this week ------------------------------- 
Player 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 ------ ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- Darren Clarke 
T-18 T-33 T-25 T-15 Won Andrew Coltart T-44 T-19 T-34 T-24 2nd Colin Montgomerie 
T-4 2nd T-29 8th 3rd Peter O'Malley dnp T-24 dnp T-5 4th Bernhard Langer Won T-5 
T-16 T-15 6th Jose Maria Olazabal T-8 dnp dnp 3rd 7th Lee Westwood 53rd dnp dnp 
Won T-12 Alex Cejka dnp Won T-60 60th T-12 Padraig Harrington dnp dnp T-29 2nd 
T-15 Miguel Angel Jimenez T-4 T-16 T-34 T-24 T-15 Jarmo Sandelin dnp T-46 64th 
T-29 23rd Jean Van de Velde dnp dnp T-55 dnp T-24 Angel Cabrera dnp dnp dnp T-29 
T-26 Eduardo Romero T-42 dnp T-34 T-9 T-29 Costantino Rocca 7th T-12 T-43 T-9 
T-36 Ian Woosnam T-8 T-5 T-25 T-9 T-41 Thomas Bjorn dnp dnp T-20 T-14 T-41 Per-Ulrik 
Johansson T-13 T-5 T-45 T-15 T-49 David Howell dnp dnp T-34 T-21 T-49 Retief Goosen 
52nd dnp T-51 T-42 T-49 Paul Lawrie dnp dnp T-25 T-21 dnp Sergio Garcia dnp dnp 
dnp dnp dnp Bob May dnp dnp dnp dnp dnp dnp - Did not play wd - Withdrew