Portugal Masters venue
Dom Pedro Victoria Golf Course: Vilamoura’s Crown Jewel
To design the course, André Jordan chose the american Arnold Palmer, a living legend of the World of Golf and responsible for the popularization of the sport in the decade of 60´s of the past century. The first contact with Palmer Design happened in January 1999, two months after the decision to build the Victoria, and quickly an agreement was achieved. The foundation stone of the project was laid on June 19th, of the year 2000, with the presence of Jorge Sampaio the Portuguese President of the Republic at that time. The course was opened in 2004, in a debut featuring Palmer himself, offering a golf clinic to all and playing nine holes. On a flat land with 90 hectares, a championship course had just raised and quickly turned into one of the ex-libris of portuguese golf with its wide fairways and undulating design conceived by the pen of Arnold Palmer which demanded huge ground movements. The Victoria has the most varied greens , both in size as in form; 5.5 hectares of well placed bunkers, white sand, and some with artistic shapes, such as the one at 8th hole, a giant octopus-shaped; in some of the bunkers, the sand spreads down all the way to the lakes, a typical Palmer´s signature; and 12 hectares of water surface with waterfalls.
2017 Portugal Masters
Venue: Dom Pedro Victoria Golf Course
Winner: Lucas BJERREGAARD
Prize Money: €2,000,000
2016 Portugal Masters
Venue: Dom Pedro Victoria Golf Course
Winner: Padraig HARRINGTON
Prize Money: €2,000,000
2015 Portugal Masters
Venue: Oceânico Victoria Golf Course
Winner: Andy SULLIVAN
Prize Money: €2,000,000
2014 Portugal Masters
Venue: Oceânico Victoria Golf Course
Winner: Alexander LEVY
Prize Money: €2,000,000
2013 Portugal Masters
Venue: Oceânico Victoria Golf Course
Winner: David LYNN
Prize Money: €2,000,000
2012 Portugal Masters
Venue: Oceânico Victoria Golf Course
Winner: Shane LOWRY
Prize Money: €2,241,625
2011 Portugal Masters
Venue: Oceânico Victoria Golf Course
Winner: Tom LEWIS
Prize Money: €2,511,241
2010 Portugal Masters
Venue: Oceânico Victoria Golf Course
Winner: Richard GREEN
Prize Money: €2,969,930
2009 Portugal Masters
Venue: Oceânico Victoria Golf Course
Winner: Lee WESTWOOD
Prize Money: €2,994,530
2008 Portugal Masters
Venue: Oceânico Victoria Golf Course
Winner: Alvaro QUIROS
Prize Money: €3,000,000
2007 Portugal Masters
Venue: Oceânico Victoria Golf Course
Winner: Steve WEBSTER
Prize Money: €3,013,491