HotelPlanner Tour’s Grand Final Returns to Alcanada

Mallorca’s north coast turns into the season’s biggest stage this autumn. Club de Golf Alcanada, tucked beside the lighthouse at Port d’Alcúdia, will host the Rolex Grand Final supported by The R&A from Thursday 29 October to Sunday 1 November 2026 — the HotelPlanner Tour’s season-ending showpiece, and the sixth time this coastal test has closed out the Road to Mallorca.

A Course That Keeps Getting Asked Back

Coastal hole at Club de Golf Alcanada with the lighthouse visible, Mallorca

Designed by Robert Trent Jones Jr and opened in 2003, Alcanada is Mallorca’s only genuinely coastal course, its par-72 layout sloping down toward the Mediterranean and that lighthouse on the tiny island just offshore. This will be the fifth consecutive year — and sixth overall — that the club has staged the Grand Final, a run matched by very few venues on the European golf calendar. (Club de Golf Alcanada)

Fifteen Cards on the Line

Mediterranean view from Club de Golf Alcanada near Port d'Alcúdia, Mallorca

The Grand Final caps a 28-tournament Road to Mallorca season spanning 19 countries and three continents, with a total prize fund of €9 million. This week alone carries €500,000 and 4,000 Race to Mallorca points — double the usual event — as the leading players chase one of 15 DP World Tour cards, down from 20 the year before. Graduates qualify for the DP World Tour’s Earnings Assurance Programme, guaranteeing $150,000 in minimum earnings for 2027, with the top five also receiving the John Jacobs Bursary. (Golf Business News)

Last Year’s Fairytale Sets the Bar

HotelPlanner Tour Grand Final trophy presentation, Mallorca

The 2025 edition is a hard act to follow. James Morrison, sitting 36th in the rankings and reportedly considering retirement, carded four rounds in the 60s and low 70s to win outright and reclaim his DP World Tour card twelve months after losing it. JC Ritchie, meanwhile, topped the season-long rankings on the back of three wins. Whoever tops the leaderboard at Alcanada this November will be writing the next chapter in a Grand Final story that rarely disappoints. (HotelPlanner Tour)

Alcanada’s coastal winds and exposed greens have a habit of deciding careers, and this year’s field will feel every gust of it. For golfers who’d rather play the course than just watch it on a leaderboard, Mallorca’s fairways are open well beyond tournament week. Browse our Balearic Islands golf holidays and put yourself on the same coastline.


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Real Novo Sancti Petri’s Summer Card Fills Up Fast

Fourteen Tournaments, Two Courses, One Very Busy Cádiz Clubhouse.

There is a particular kind of energy at a Spanish golf club in high summer, when the heat sits heavy over the fairways by mid-morning and the clubhouse fills anyway. Chiclana de la Frontera does not slow down for it. Real Novo Sancti Petri’s 2026 tournament calendar runs fourteen fixtures across July and August, a mix of national circuits, charity fundraisers and corporate golf days that keeps both courses busy well past the point most clubs start thinking about siesta.

Clubhouse terrace at Real Novo Sancti Petri during the summer tournament season

Fourteen Fixtures, Two Courses

Three events open the run in July, with eleven more following through August, split across the club’s two Seve Ballesteros-designed layouts, Pines & Sea and Centre. It is a demanding schedule for any club to host back to back through the hottest months of the year, and a fair indication of how central golf remains to summer life on this stretch of the Costa de la Luz. There is something rather satisfying about a fixture list this dense — proof that a club’s popularity holds even when the mercury does not cooperate. (Real Novo Sancti Petri)

Aerial Shot of Real Novo Sancti Petri

Corporate Names on the Card

Several of the August dates carry a brand’s name rather than a sponsor’s logo tucked in the corner — Coca-Cola, Nestlé, Ferrer Wines and Royal Bliss all host days, alongside hospitality fixtures for Coco Novo Beach Club, Le Club and Golf Divino. It is a reminder that in Spain, a golf day often doubles as a client lunch with rather better scenery — introductions made on the first tee, deals half-settled by the turn, the real business conducted somewhere around the eighteenth green with a cold drink in hand. (Real Novo Sancti Petri)

Real Novo Sancti Petri Drone Shot

Charity Fixtures and National Circuits

Unicaja and the Spanish Association Against Cancer (AECC) both run fundraising tournaments within the calendar, sitting alongside stops on established national amateur circuits. For a club of this size, hosting both charity golf and competitive circuit events in the same eight-week window says as much about its course conditioning as its popularity — greens and fairways do not survive that kind of traffic on reputation alone.

Real Novo Sancti Petri Gol and Waves

Chiclana as a Base

The town itself rewards anyone building a trip around the calendar rather than just a tee time. La Barrosa beach sits a short drive from the clubhouse, its stretch of pale sand backed by pine forest rather than concrete, and the seafood along the seafront is the kind that makes an evening feel earned after eighteen holes in the heat. Chiclana has long operated in the shadow of its more famous Cádiz neighbours — Sancti Petri’s tournament calendar this summer is a definite argument for giving it rather more attention.

La Barrosa beach near Chiclana de la Frontera, close to Real Novo Sancti Petri

Booking a Round Around It

Registration for each fixture runs through TeeOne, with places allocated by order of booking rather than by invitation. Anyone travelling to the Costa de la Luz this summer who fancies a competitive round rather than a quiet one would do well to check the calendar before finalising dates — a packed tournament sheet also means a genuinely busy, sociable clubhouse most evenings.

A summer this full says everything about where Cádiz golf currently stands. Browse our Cádiz golf holidays and build a trip around it.

Chacarra Goes Back-to-Back — and Lands an Open Debut

Two DP World Tour titles in two weeks, and a PGA Tour card now firmly in his sights

Eugenio Chacarra closed out the Italian Open on Sunday with a bogey-free 64, winning by five shots at Circolo Golf Torino. It was the 26-year-old Spaniard’s second DP World Tour title in as many weeks, following his win at the KLM Open earlier in June. Both the manner and the timing matter.

A flawless Sunday in Turin

A victorious Eugenio Chacarra waves to the crowd

Chacarra reached 24-under for the week, five clear of England’s Matt Wallace, with Chile’s Joaquín Niemann a further shot back in third. The closing round was the work of a player in full control — five birdies in his first ten holes, then an eagle at the par-five 15th to settle the matter. He never looked troubled. (ESPN)

A ticket to Royal Birkdale

The victory carried a significant reward beyond the trophy. Chacarra secured the final Open Championship place available to unexempt players through the Open Qualifying Series, booking his debut at Royal Birkdale next month. For a player who has watched the game’s oldest major on television since boyhood, it is a milestone moment.

The bigger prize in sight

The win lifted Chacarra to third in the Race to Dubai, behind only Patrick Reed and Rory McIlroy, and put him top of the standings for the ten PGA Tour cards awarded to leading non-exempt players at season’s end. It marks a notable turnaround. A former LIV Golf player whose contract with Sergio García’s Fireballs was not renewed after 2024, Chacarra returned to the DP World Tour and won the Hero Indian Open in March 2025. Three titles in fifteen months later, the PGA Tour card he has chased since childhood is within reach.

Eugenio Chacarra with the Italian Open Trophy

A summer for Spanish golf

Chacarra’s form is part of a strong season for Spanish golf, and a reminder of the depth the country continues to produce. For anyone inspired to play where the Spanish game is at its finest, the courses of the Costa del Sol — championship layouts, reliable sunshine, and the kind of post-round dining that makes an evening — are hard to beat.

Browse our Costa del Sol golf holidays and see what the fuss is about.


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