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The Turespaña Masters was a
European Tour The European Tour (currently known as the DP World Tour for sponsorship reasons), legally the PGA European Tour is the leading men's professional golf tour in Europe. The organisation also operates the European Senior Tour (for players aged fift ...
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 which was played from 1992 to 2000 in several different regions of Spain.
Turespaña The Instituto de Turismo de España – Turespaña (Tourism Institute of Spain), is the official agency of the Government of Spain responsible for the marketing of the country as a tourist destination throughout the world. It depends on the Minis ...
is the Spanish national tourism authority, and it sponsored several golf tournaments in the 1980s and 1990s to promote Spain's role as a major warm weather golfing holiday destination in Europe. The winners of the Turespaña Masters included the major championship winners
Vijay Singh Vijay Singh ( hif, विजय सिंह ; born 22 February 1963), nicknamed "The Big Fijian", is a Fijian professional golfer. He has won 34 events on the PGA Tour, including three major championships: one Masters title (2000) and two ...
and
José María Olazábal José María Olazábal Manterola (, ; born 5 February 1966) is a Spanish professional golfer from the Basque region who has enjoyed success on both the European Tour and the PGA Tour, and has won two major championships, both at The Masters. ...
. The prize fund fluctuated, but was generally below average for a European Tour event.


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Coverage on the European Tour's official site
Former European Tour events Golf tournaments in Spain Defunct sports competitions in Spain {{golf-tournament-stub