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Tournament information | |
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Location | Bad Griesbach, Germany |
Established | 2015 |
Course(s) | Golf Resort Bad Griesbach |
Par | 71 |
Length | 7,188 yards (6,573 m) |
Tour(s) | European Tour |
Format | Match play |
Prize fund | €1,000,000 |
Month played | August |
Final year | 2017 |
Tournament record score | |
Score | 2 and 1 Adrián Otaegui (2017) |
Final champion | |
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The event was a 64-man single-elimination match play tournament, with one round played on each of the first two days and two rounds on the last two. The European Tour's exemption categories were used to select most of the field, with four spots reserved for invitations and three for the leading three non-exempt players in the Race to Dubai rankings. [2] The thirty-two players in the field who were highest in the Race to Dubai were seeded one to thirty-two and prevented from facing each other in the first round; the remainder were randomly drawn into the bracket.
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Year | Winner | Score | Runner-up | Venue | ||
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Saltire Energy Paul Lawrie Match Play | ||||||
2017 | ![]() | 2 and 1 | ![]() | Bad Griesbach, Bad Griesbach | ||
Aberdeen Asset Management Paul Lawrie Match Play | ||||||
2016 | ![]() | 1 up | ![]() | Archerfield Links, North Berwick | ||
Saltire Energy Paul Lawrie Match Play | ||||||
2015 | ![]() | 1 up | ![]() | Murcar Links, Aberdeen |
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