Czech Open (golf)

This article is about the European Tour event. For the Championship played from 1935 to 1938, see Czechoslovak Open.

The Czech Open was a professional golf tournament on the European Tour which was held annually in the Czech Republic.

Czech Open

Tournament information
Location	Czech Republic
Established	1990
Course(s)	Prosper Golf Resort
Par	72
Length	7,452 yards (6,814 m)
Tour(s)	European Tour Alps Tour
Format	Stroke play
Prize fund	€1,500,000
Month played	August
Final year	2011
Tournament record score
Aggregate	264 Bernhard Langer (1997)
To par	−20 as above
Final champion
Oliver Fisher
Location map
Prosper Golf Resort Location in the Czech Republic

The tournament first appeared on the European Tour schedule between 1994 and 1997 as the Chemapol Trophy Czech Open, and was the first European Tour event staged east of the former Iron Curtain after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The first three of those events were held at the Golf Club Mariánské Lázně in Mariánské Lázně, before moving to the Prague Karlstein Golf Club, overlooked by Karlštejn Castle, just outside Prague. Germany's former World Number 1 Bernhard Langer was much the most distinguished of the four champions.

Following flood disasters in the Czech Republic in 1997, the Czech Open in the following year was canceled at the request of the sponsors, and lost its place on the European Tour schedule as a result. In its final year, the prize fund was £804,788, which was above average for a European Tour event at that time.

Having been contested on the satellite Alps Tour in 2008, the Czech Open returned to the European Tour schedule for the 2009 season, when it was played at the Miguel Ángel Jiménez designed Prosper Golf Resort in Čeladná towards the end of July with a prize fund of €2.5 million. It was titled as the Moravia Silesia Open in 2009, and retitled again in 2010 to the Czech Open. The 2011 Czech Open was the last one held, with the 2012 edition being scheduled, but ultimately canceled due to a lack of funds.

Winners

Year	Tour	Winner	Score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up
Czech Open
2012	EUR	Cancelled due to lack of funding
2011	EUR	Oliver Fisher	275	−13	2 strokes	Mikael Lundberg
2010	EUR	Peter Hanson	278	−10	Playoff	Gary Boyd Peter Lawrie
Moravia Silesia Open
2009	EUR	Oskar Henningsson	275	−13	2 strokes	Sam Little Steve Webster
Czech Golf Open
2008	ALP	Clemens Prader	203	−13	7 strokes	Michael Moser
Chemapol Trophy Czech Open
1999–2007: No tournament
1998	EUR	Cancelled due to flooding
1997	EUR	Bernhard Langer	264	−20	4 strokes	Niclas Fasth Ignacio Garrido Miguel Ángel Jiménez
1996	EUR	Jonathan Lomas	272	−12	1 stroke	Daniel Chopra
1995	EUR	Peter Teravainen	268	−16	1 stroke	Howard Clark
1994	EUR	Per-Ulrik Johansson	237	−11	3 strokes	Klas Eriksson
Czech Open
1993: No tournament
1992		Alex Čejka (2)
1991: No tournament
1990		Alex Čejka

See also

• D+D Real Czech Masters, a European Tour event in the Czech Republic, first played in 2014

External links

• Coverage on the European Tour's official site – current event
• Coverage on the Alps Tour website Archived 2011-07-07 at the Wayback Machine – 2008 event