Neuchâtel Open

The Neuchâtel Open was a professional golf tournament that was played annually between 1982 and 2007 at Neuchâtel Golf Club in Saint-Blaise, Neuchâtel, Switzerland. It was a 54-hole stroke play tournament.

Open de Neuchâtel

Tournament information
Location	Saint-Blaise, Switzerland
Established	1982
Course(s)	Golf de Neuchâtel
Par	72
Tour(s)	Challenge Tour Alps Tour
Format	stroke play
Prize fund	€45,000
Month played	June
Final year	2007
Tournament record score
Aggregate	199 Rolf Muntz (1994) 199 Thomas Feyrsinger (2005)
To par	−14 as above
Final champion
Marcus Knight
Location Map
Golf de Neuchâtel Location in Switzerland

From 1990 to 2000 it was an event on the second-tier Challenge Tour, although it was an unofficial money event in some seasons. After being dropped from the Challenge Tour schedule, it became a fixture on the third-tier Alps Tour between 2001 and 2007.

Winners

Year	Tour^[a]	Winner	Score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up	Ref.
Open de Neuchâtel
2007	ALP	Marcus Knight	205	−8	1 stroke	Phil Rowe	^[1]^[2]
2006	ALP	Gary Marks	202	−11	5 strokes	Peter Lepitschnik	^[3]
2005	ALP	Thomas Feyrsinger	199	−14	1 stroke	Lionel Alexandre   Gary Marks	^[4]
2004	ALP	Jérôme Theunis	205	−8	5 strokes	Marc Chatelain   Raphaël De Sousa   Bilbo Perrot   Vincent Simoni	^[5]
2003	ALP	Alexandre Balicki	204	−9	1 stroke	Alexandre Chopard	^[6]
UBS Warburg Golf Open
2002	ALP	Fernando Roca	200	−13	3 strokes	Josep Romero
2001	ALP	Bertrand Cornut	202	−11	5 strokes	Alexandre Chopard   Nicolas Kalouguine	^[7]^[8]
UBS Warburg Swiss Golf Open Neuchâtel
2000	CHA	Steve Rey	205	−8	1 stroke	Jaun Ciola	^[9]
Neuchâtel Open Golf Trophy
1999	CHA	Richard S. Johnson	201	−12	1 stroke	Erol Şimşek	^[10]
1998		Christophe Bovet	200	−13	5 strokes	John Lawson	^[11]
Neuchâtel Open
1997	CHA	Erol Şimşek	204	−9	3 strokes	Stephen Leaney	^[12]
Neuchâtel Open Golf Trophy
1996	CHA	Federico Bisazza	205	−8	Playoff	Heinz-Peter Thül	^[13]
Neuchâtel Open SBS Trophy
1995	CHA	Nicolas Vanhootegem	200	−13	2 strokes	Michele Reale	^[14]
1994	CHA	Rolf Muntz	199	−14	1 stroke	Neal Briggs   Philip Talbot   Daniel Westermark	^[15]
Open de Neuchâtel
1993	CHA	Paolo Quirici	207	−6	Playoff	Stéphane De Marboeuf   Paul Simpson	^[16]
Neuchâtel Open SBS Trophy
1992	CHA	Heinz-Peter Thül (2)	136^[b]	−6	1 stroke	Gavin Healey	^[17]^[18]
Neuchâtel Open
1991	CHA	Heinz-Peter Thül	206	−7	1 stroke	Daniel Westermark	^[19]
1990	CHA	André Bossert	208	−5	3 strokes	Nick Godin	^[20]
1989	CHA	Brian Evans (3)	206	−7	Playoff	Manuel García	^[21]
Open Browning de Neuchâtel
1988		Jonas Saxton	212	−1			^[22]
1987		Brian Evans (2)	212	−1			^[23]
1986		Tim Huyton	137^[b]	−5			^[24]
1985		Brian Evans	209	−4			^[25]
1984		Silvano Locatelli	209	−4	Playoff		^[26]
1983		Pietro Molteni	214	+1			^[27]
1982		Manuel Gallardo	211	−2			^[28]

Notes

1. ALP − Alps Tour; CHA − Challenge Tour.
2. Shortened to 36 holes due to rain.

References

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21. "Evans remporte le Neuchâtel Open". La Liberté (in French). Fribourg, Switzerland. 11 July 1989. p. 20. Retrieved 30 May 2020 – via e-newspaperarchives.ch.
22. "7e Open Browning, á Neuchâtel". Gazette de Lausanne (in French). Lausanne, Switzerland. 12 July 1988. p. 21. Retrieved 30 May 2020 – via Le Temps Archives.
23. "Victoire de Brian Evans à Neuchâtel". Le Nouvelliste (in French). Sion, Switzerland. 6 July 1987. p. 7. Retrieved 30 May 2020 – via e-newspaperarchives.ch.
24. "L'Open Browning de Neuchâtel, à Voëns-sur-Saint-Blaise". Le Nouvelliste (in French). Sion, Switzerland. 7 July 1986. p. 8. Retrieved 30 May 2020 – via e-newspaperarchives.ch.
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26. "L'Open de Neuchâtel: domination italienne". Le Nouvelliste (in French). Sion, Switzerland. 16 July 1984. p. 9. Retrieved 30 May 2020 – via e-newspaperarchives.ch.
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28. "Succès de l'Espagnol Gallardo le week-end dernier à Voëns" (PDF). L'Express (in French). Neuchâtel, Switzerland. 28 July 1982. p. 10. Retrieved 31 May 2020 – via réro doc Digital Library.

External links

• Coverage on the Challenge Tour's official site