Regarded as the best course on the island of Mallorca, Club de Golf Alcanada will be proudly hosting the Rolex Challenge Tour Grand Final supported by The R&A, for the fourth time at the end of October.
After which, the top 20 players on the season-long Road to Mallorca Rankings will secure a DP World Tour card for the 2025 season.
Since the Challenge Tour Grand Final was established in 1995, many of the world’s best players have competed on what is now widely considered to be Europe’s top developmental tour: Thomas Bjørn (1995), Justin Rose (1999), Tommy Fleetwood (2011), Brooks Koepka (2013), Tyrrell Hatton (2013), Matt Fitzpatrick (2014), Ryan Fox (2016), Robert Macintyre (2018), Adrian Meronk (2019), Nicolai Hojgaard (2019), Rasmus Hogjaard (2019), Tom McKibbin (2022) are all former Challenge Tour players.
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When it comes to Club de Golf Alcanada, located on the Mediterranean coastline and overlooking the bay of Alcudia, it offers breathtaking views with its striking lighthouse serving as the club’s logo which can be seen from many parts of the estate.
The land was purchased back in 1985 during a dinner between Mr. Hans-Peter Porsche and the club’s current president, Mr. Federico Knuchel. 13 years after securing the land, with plenty of perseverance and negotiating skills, all the necessary permits and licenses were finally in place to start building the golf course.
Mr Porsche, then contracted the world-famous golf course architect, Robert Trent Jones Jr., and asked him to design the course into the natural terrain of the land to maintain the typical Majorcan landscape which can be seen today.
🏆 Rolex Challenge Tour Grand Final winner
🏆 Road to Mallorca champion @PengeMarco cleans up in Mallorca 🙌 #RolexGrandFinal pic.twitter.com/SPHh1Ktw5M— Challenge Tour (@Challenge_Tour) November 5, 2023
At Club de Golf Alcanada, par is your friend. Francesco Laporta’s winning score in the 2019 Challenge Tour Grand Final was just six under par, Nathan Kimsey in 2022 was nine under, while Marco Penge was one better in 2023 at ten under par.
Anytime you walk off a hole with par or better, you should be very pleased with yourself!
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This article was featured in the October 2024 issue of Golf Digest Middle East. Click here for a digital issue of the full magazine.
