The Algarve Open was a men's professional

golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping wi ...

tournament played from 1969 to 1972 in the

Algarve The Algarve (, , ; from ) is the southernmost NUTS II region of continental Portugal. It has an area of with 467,495 permanent inhabitants and incorporates 16 municipalities ( ''concelhos'' or ''municípios'' in Portuguese). The region has it ...

in Southern

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. The 1969 and 1972 events were held at Penina Golf,

Portimão Portimão () is a city and a municipality in the district of Faro, in the Algarve region of southern Portugal. The population in 2011 was 55,614, in an area of 182.06 km2. It was formerly known as Vila Nova de Portimão (). In 1924, it was ...

. In 1970 it was held at

Vilamoura Vilamoura is a coastal resort in the Loulé municipality in Algarve, Portugal. It is one of the three corners of Algarve's Golden Triangle. Vilamoura comprises one of the largest single tourist complexes in Europe and with about 2,000 hectares ...

while in 1971 it was held at

Vale do Lobo Vale do Lobo is a golf resort in the Algarve region of southern Portugal. Vale do Lobo comprises one of the three corners of the Golden Triangle of the Algarve's most affluent and expensive communities. The community hosted the Portuguese Open, p ...

. Total prize money was £5,500 in 1969, £7,000 in 1971 and £6,000 in 1972. In 1972, neither the Algarve Open nor the

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, which was played the following week, counted for the

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Order of Merit and as such are not included as part of what has since been officially designated as the first season of the

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Winners

References

{{reflist, 2 Golf tournaments in Portugal Recurring sporting events established in 1969 Recurring sporting events disestablished in 1972