01역사와 전통을 자랑하는 스페인 골프의 자부심, 오픈 드 에스파냐의 모든 것
1912년 창설되어 유럽 골프 역사에서 독보적인 위상을 차지하고 있는 '오픈 드 에스파냐 presented by Madrid'가 이번 주 스페인 마드리드의 클럽 데 캄포 빌라 데 마드리드에서 화려하게 개최된다. 이번 대회는 긴 역사만큼이나 화려한 우승자 명단을 자랑하며 DP 월드투어의 상징적인 이벤트로 자리매김하고 있다.
특히 고국 팬들의 압도적인 지지를 받는 욘 람 등 세계적인 스타들이 대거 출전하여 우승 트로피를 두고 치열한 접전을 펼칠 예정이다. 욘 람은 이 대회에서 여러 차례 정상에 오르며 스페인의 전설 세베 발레스테로스의 기록과 어깨를 나란히 하기 위한 새로운 도전에 나선다.
경기가 펼쳐지는 클럽 데 캄포 빌라 데 마드리드는 마드리드의 전경이 내려다보이는 아름다운 풍광과 함께, 정교한 코스 매니지먼트가 필수적인 레이아웃으로 잘 알려져 있다. 좁은 페어웨이와 까다로운 그린은 선수들에게 고도의 집중력과 샷 메이킹 능력을 요구하며 경기의 변별력을 높일 것으로 기대된다.
또한 이번 대회는 DP 월드투어 시즌 막바지 일정인 '백 9 스윙(Back 9 Swing)'의 일환으로, 선수들에게는 레이스 투 두바이 랭킹 포인트를 대거 획득할 수 있는 결정적인 기회다. 시즌 최종전 출전권 확보를 위한 치열한 순위 다툼이 이번 주 마드리드에서 더욱 뜨겁게 달아오를 전망이다.
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The DP World Tour revisits Spain this week for the Open de España presented by Madrid. Here are your five things to know.
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It is back to mainland Europe as the Back 9 continues, with the stakes only rising as the season draws towards a crescendo. With just visits to India and South Korea to follow in the regular season, there is much to be played for in the battle to win the Race to Dubai, claim places in the DP World Tour Play-Offs, playing privileges for 2027 and earn dual membership with the PGA Tour. At the top of the Race to Dubai Rankings Delivered by DP World, Patrick Reed leads the way with an exciting run-in to the campaign in store. At the end of the Back 9 later this month, the top 70 qualifying players on the Race to Dubai will head to the Play-Offs and battle it out in Abu Dhabi to secure enough points to be among the top 50 available players who advance to Dubai for the season finale, the DP World Tour Championship. The Genesis Championship in South Korea later this month will be the last chance for players to get into the top 100 on the Rankings and secure Category 10 status for 2027 and the ability to play an almost full schedule. The top ten players not otherwise exempt from the season-long standings after Dubai will earn playing rights stateside next year. With a $3.75 million prize fund at play, valuable Race to Dubai points and Team Europe Ryder Cup qualifying points on offer, it is all to play for in Madrid.
A star-studded array of international talent has made the trip to the Spanish capital, with Reed and fellow Major champions Justin Rose, Shane Lowry, Francesco Molinari, Danny Willett, Bubba Watson and Sergio Garcia all teeing it up. There are four members of the 2025 European Ryder Cup team, with Rose and Lowry joined by Tyrrell Hatton and Ludvig Åberg as the latter makes his event debut. There are 20 Spaniards in action including Eugenio Chacarra, a two-time winner this season, rising stars Angel Ayora and David Puig, and 2024 winner Angel Hidalgo. Following victory for Adrian Meronk at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship at the weekend, there are 19 winners from the season so far in action. Five of the top ten on the Race to Dubai are competing with Jayden Schaper, Andy Sullivan and Jacob Skov Olesen joining Reed and Chacarra. At the other end, 2023 Ryder Cup player Nicolai Højgaard and English fan favourite Eddie Pepperell need of points as they come into the week in 100th and 101st place respectively. After his dream Alfred Dunhill Links Championship debut, Michael Stewart makes it back-to-back DP World Tour starts as he prioritises a trip to compete in the Spanish capital over a planned return to the Tartan Pro Tour.
Last year, Marco Penge made it a hat-trick of titles in a breakthrough season on the DP World Tour with a play-off victory against fellow Englishman Daniel Brown. The leader by four ahead of the final round, the 2023 Road to Mallorca Rankings winner shot a level-par 72 to finish at 15 under, which was matched after a 67 for playing partner Brown before Penge made a birdie on the first replaying of the drivable 18th. The win followed prior triumphs at the Hainan Classic and the Danish Golf Championship as he pushed Rory McIlroy hard in the Race to Dubai before finishing second to earn dual membership with the PGA Tour. Illness and injury have limited Penge’s development this year, but despite those troubles he still has registered four top-ten finishes worldwide, the latest of which came stateside last month.
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Victory in one of continental Europe’s oldest national opens comes with the added bonus of a spot into the Masters Tournament, with Penge the first beneficiary last year. As part of the change to qualification criteria announced by Augusta National and The R&A in August, this week’s champion will earn an invite to Augusta National while the leading player not otherwise exempt will earn a spot at The Open through The Open Qualifying Series. After the FedEx Open de France, where runner-up Hidalgo sealed his shot at winning the Claret Jug next summer, it is the second of 19 events in 15 countries across the PGA Tour, Korn Ferry Tour, DP World Tour, Asian Tour, KPGA Tour, Japan Golf Tour, Sunshine Tour and Challenger PGA Tour of Australasia which offer a pathway to The 155th Open at St Andrews. In this week's field, Åberg, Hidalgo, Lowry, Molinari, Alex Noren and Rose are already exempt for The Open, while Åberg, Garcia, Hatton, Rose, Watson and Willett are already assured of spots at the Masters.
First held in 1912, Spain's national open is the third-oldest golf tournament in Europe and was the founding event on the DP World Tour's inaugural season in 1972. Since then, it has been held in all but two years (2017 and 2020), with winners including Seve Ballesteros, Bernhard Langer, Sir Nick Faldo, Colin Montgomerie, Sam Torrance and Pádraig Harrington. It is the 16th and final national open of the 2026 Race to Dubai season, coming up shortly after similar events in Switzerland, Ireland and France earlier in the Back 9.
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