Austrian Open (golf)

The Austrian Open is a men's professional golf tournament on the European Tour. It was founded in 1990, and was a European Tour event for seven straight years up to 1996, being held under a variety of names due to regular changes of title sponsor. The tournament dropped down to the Challenge Tour schedule between 1997 and 2005, with a sharp reduction in prize money, before returning to the main tour for the 2006 season. In 2012, it was announced that the Austrian shopping community Lyoness and its affiliated Greenfinity foundation would be the title sponsors for three seasons.^[1][2]

Austrian Open

Tournament information
Location	Atzenbrugg, Austria
Established	1990
Course(s)	Diamond Country Club
Par	72
Length	7,458 yards (6,820 m)
Tour(s)	European Tour Challenge Tour
Format	Stroke play
Prize fund	€1,000,000
Month played	April
Final year	2021
Tournament record score
Aggregate	261 Markus Brier (2004)
To par	−23 as above
Final champion
John Catlin
Location map
Diamond CC Location in Austria

The 2018 event was the first professional tournament to use a shot clock on every shot. The official European Tour time allowances were used: a 50-second allowance for a “first to play approach shot (including a par three tee shot), chip or putt” and a 40-second allowance for a “tee shot on a par four or par five, or second or third to play approach shot, chip or putt”. Players that failed to play within these time limits incurred a one-shot penalty, which was added to their score for that hole. Players had two “time-extensions” in each round, each giving them an extra 40 seconds.^[3]

Since 2010 the tournament has been held at the Diamond Country Club in Atzenbrugg, Lower Austria, 35 km west of Vienna.

In 2020, the tournament was a dual-ranking event with the Challenge Tour, due to a revamp of the European Tour's schedule because of COVID-19 pandemic.^[4]

Winners

2008 Jeev Milkha Singh from India won (in the yellow shirt)

The Australian Richard Green won in 2007

Colin Montgomerie at the Austrian Open 2006

The Austrian Markus Brier, three-time winner of the Austrian Open

Year	Tour(s)[a]	Winner	Score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up
Austrian Golf Open
2021	EUR	John Catlin	274	−14	Playoff	Maximilian Kieffer
Austrian Open
2020	CHA, EUR	Marc Warren	275	−13	1 stroke	Marcel Schneider
2019: No tournament
Shot Clock Masters
2018	EUR	Mikko Korhonen	272	−16	6 strokes	Connor Syme
Lyoness Open
2017	EUR	Dylan Frittelli	276	−12	1 stroke	David Horsey Mikko Korhonen Jbe' Kruger
2016	EUR	Wu Ashun	275	−13	1 stroke	Adrián Otaegui
2015	EUR	Chris Wood	273	−15	2 strokes	Rafa Cabrera-Bello
2014	EUR	Mikael Lundberg	276	−12	Playoff	Bernd Wiesberger
2013	EUR	Joost Luiten	271	−17	2 strokes	Thomas Bjørn
2012	EUR	Bernd Wiesberger	269	−19	3 strokes	Thomas Levet Shane Lowry
Austrian Golf Open
2011	EUR	Kenneth Ferrie	276	−12	Playoff	Simon Wakefield
2010	EUR	José Manuel Lara	271	−17	Playoff	David Lynn
2009	EUR	Rafa Cabrera-Bello	264	−20	1 stroke	Benn Barham
Bank Austria GolfOpen
2008	EUR	Jeev Milkha Singh	198[b]	−15	1 stroke	Simon Wakefield
BA-CA Golf Open
2007	EUR	Richard Green	268	−16	Playoff	Jean-François Remésy
2006	EUR	Markus Brier (3)	266	−18	3 strokes	Søren Hansen
2005	CHA	Michael Hoey	265	−19	1 stroke	Steven Jeppesen
2004	CHA	Markus Brier (2)	261	−23	8 strokes	Roope Kakko Lee Slattery
2003	CHA	Robert Coles	275	−13	Playoff	Steven Bowditch
Austrian Golf Open
2002	CHA	Markus Brier	267	−21	1 stroke	Gary Birch Jr.
Austrian Open
2001	CHA	Chris Gane	270	−18	1 stroke	Andrew Marshall
2000: No tournament
Diners Club Austrian Open
1999	CHA	Juan Ciola	263	−17	Playoff	Elliot Boult
1998	CHA	Kevin Carissimi	269	−11	2 strokes	Markus Brier Per Jacobson David R. Jones
Matchmaker Austrian Open
1997	CHA	Erol Şimşek	266	−14	3 strokes	Kevin Carissimi David Lynn Steen Tinning
Hohe Brücke Open
1996	EUR	Paul McGinley	269	−19	1 stroke	David Lynn Juan Carlos Piñero
1995	EUR	Alex Čejka	267	−21	4 strokes	Ignacio Garrido Rolf Muntz Ronan Rafferty
1994	EUR	Mark Davis (2)	270	−18	2 strokes	Philip Walton
Hohe Brücke Austrian Open
1993	EUR	Ronan Rafferty	274	−14	Playoff	Anders Sørensen
Mitsubishi Austrian Open
1992	EUR	Peter Mitchell	271	−17	1 stroke	Peter Fowler David J. Russell Jamie Spence
1991	EUR	Mark Davis	269	−19	5 strokes	Michael McLean
Austrian Open
1990	EUR	Bernhard Langer	271	−17	Playoff	Lanny Wadkins

See also

• Open golf tournament

Notes

1. CHA − Challenge Tour; EUR − European Tour.
2. Shortened to 54 holes due to rain.