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HotelPlanner Tour’s Grand Final Returns to Alcanada

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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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A Last-Hole Eagle Decides the BMW International Open

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Michael Hollick’s Maiden Win Comes With a Flourish

Golf has a habit of waiting until the very last moment to reveal its winner, and Munich’s Golfclub München Eichenried offered no exception on Sunday. Hennie du Plessis had led by three shots with just a handful of holes to play at the BMW International Open — the kind of cushion that usually settles a tournament well before the closing stretch. It did not.

Michael Hollick, An Eagle for the Tournament Win

Michael Hollick closed with a birdie-eagle finish, holing an eagle three on the 72nd hole to snatch his maiden DP World Tour title by a single shot, finishing on 18-under 270. (Golf News Net)

A Three-Shot Lead, Gone in Two Holes

Du Plessis had done almost everything right through the front nine on Sunday, building the kind of lead that should have been comfortable. Golf rarely deals in comfortable. Two holes from home, the gap had disappeared entirely, and by the final green it was Hollick celebrating his first tour win — the sort of finish that makes even a Monday morning golf conversation worth having.

BMW International Open Trophy Golfclub München Eichenried

A Familiar Venue, an Unfamiliar Feeling

Golfclub München Eichenried has hosted the BMW International Open for decades, and its back nine has a reputation for late drama. This year’s edition lived up to it. Bernd Wiesberger, the highest-placed German in the field, finished alone in third on 14-under — a solid week, if a quiet one by comparison to the theatre above him.

An Eagle Landing with Gold

Michael Hollick, holds the BMW International Open Trophy

The eagle on 18 was worth rather more than the two shots on the card. Hollick’s win came with a cheque for $510,000 — comfortably the biggest of a career that, until Sunday, had produced nine missed cuts in 2026 and a single top-30 finish. Golf has an occasionally cruel sense of timing. This time, for once, it was generous. (Golf News Net)


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

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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.

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