The Qatar Masters is a European Tour golf tournament held at Doha Golf Club in Doha, Qatar. When founded in 1998, it was one of two European Tour events to be staged in the Arabian Peninsula, but was at one point, one of six.[1] From 2005 to 2007 the tournament was co-sanctioned by the Asian Tour.

Commercial Bank Qatar Masters
Tournament information
LocationDoha, Qatar
Established1998
Course(s)Doha Golf Club
Par72
Length7,466 yards (6,827 m)
Tour(s)European Tour
FormatStroke play
Prize fundUS$2,500,000
Month playedFebruary
Tournament record score
Aggregate268 Paul Lawrie (1999)
268 Adam Scott (2008)
To par−20 as above
Current champion
Japan Rikuya Hoshino
Location map
Doha GC is located in Qatar
Doha GC
Doha GC
Location in Qatar
Branden Grace, winner in 2015 and 2016, here posing with the trophy after his second victory.

The tournament had modest fields in its early years, but with the aid of "promotional" money paid to top golfers to appear, and being scheduled within a three-week period that included events in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, it developed to have one of the European Tour's strongest fields.

In 2018, due to travel restrictions between the United Arab Emirates and Qatar as a result of the ongoing diplomatic dispute in the Arab World, it was moved to later in the year, and is no longer held at the same time as the Abu Dhabi and Dubai events. The date change coincided with a reduction in prize money, and resulted in a lower field strength than previous editions.[2]

Winners

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Year Tour(s)[a] Winner Score To par Margin of
victory
Runner(s)-up Venue
Commercial Bank Qatar Masters
2024 EUR   Rikuya Hoshino 274 −14 1 stroke   Ugo Coussaud Doha
2023 EUR   Sami Välimäki 270 −18 Playoff   Jorge Campillo Doha
2022 EUR   Ewen Ferguson 281 −7 1 stroke   Chase Hanna Doha
2021 EUR   Antoine Rozner 276 −8 1 stroke   Gaganjeet Bhullar
  Darren Fichardt
  Guido Migliozzi
Education City
2020 EUR   Jorge Campillo 271 −13 Playoff   David Drysdale Education City
2019 EUR   Justin Harding 275 −13 2 strokes   Christiaan Bezuidenhout
  Jorge Campillo
  Choi Jin-ho
  George Coetzee
  Nacho Elvira
  Anton Karlsson
  Mike Lorenzo-Vera
  Erik van Rooyen
  Oliver Wilson
Doha
2018 EUR   Eddie Pepperell 270 −18 1 stroke   Oliver Fisher Doha
2017 EUR   Wang Jeung-hun 272 −16 Playoff   Joakim Lagergren
  Jaco van Zyl
Doha
2016 EUR   Branden Grace (2) 274 −14 2 strokes   Rafa Cabrera-Bello
  Thorbjørn Olesen
Doha
2015 EUR   Branden Grace 269 −19 1 stroke   Marc Warren Doha
2014 EUR   Sergio García 272 −16 Playoff   Mikko Ilonen Doha
2013 EUR   Chris Wood 270 −18 1 stroke   George Coetzee
  Sergio García
Doha
Commercialbank Qatar Masters
2012 EUR   Paul Lawrie (2) 201[b] −15 4 strokes   Jason Day
  Peter Hanson
Doha
2011 EUR   Thomas Bjørn 274 −14 4 strokes   Álvaro Quirós Doha
2010 EUR   Robert Karlsson 273 −15 3 strokes   Álvaro Quirós Doha
2009 EUR   Álvaro Quirós 269 −19 3 strokes   Louis Oosthuizen
  Henrik Stenson
Doha
2008 EUR   Adam Scott (2) 268 −20 3 strokes   Henrik Stenson Doha
2007 ASA, EUR   Retief Goosen 273 −15 1 stroke   Nick O'Hern Doha
2006 ASA, EUR   Henrik Stenson 273 −15 3 strokes   Paul Broadhurst Doha
Qatar Masters
2005 ASA, EUR   Ernie Els 276 −12 1 stroke   Henrik Stenson Doha
2004 EUR   Joakim Haeggman 272 −16 1 stroke   Nobuhito Sato Doha
2003 EUR   Darren Fichardt 275 −13 Playoff   James Kingston Doha
2002 EUR   Adam Scott 269 −19 6 strokes   Nick Dougherty
  Jean-François Remésy
Doha
2001 EUR   Tony Johnstone 274 −14 2 strokes   Robert Karlsson Doha
2000 EUR   Rolf Muntz 280 −8 5 strokes   Ian Woosnam Doha
1999 EUR   Paul Lawrie 268 −20 7 strokes   Søren Kjeldsen
  Phillip Price
Doha
1998 EUR   Andrew Coltart 270 −18 2 strokes   Andrew Sherborne
  Patrik Sjöland
Doha

Notes

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  1. ^ ASA − Asian Tour; EUR − European Tour.
  2. ^ Shortened to 54 holes due to strong winds.

References

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  1. ^ "European Tour - Qatar Masters - History". PGA European Tour. Retrieved 1 January 2019.
  2. ^ "European Tour changes Desert Swing schedule to have Abu Dhabi and Dubai back-to-back". The National. 7 September 2017.
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