The BMW Italian Open, as it is currently known for sponsorship reasons, is the Italian

Italy

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 national open golf

Golf

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 championship for men. It was founded in 1925 and has been part of the European Tour

PGA European Tour

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's schedule since the tour's first season in 1972.

The Italian Open is currently played in June at the Royal Park Golf and Country Club near Turin

Turin

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. In 2011 it had a prize fund of €1.5 million, which was one of the smaller purses among the European Tour events played in Europe

Europe

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 itself.

In 2008, South Africa

South Africa

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n Hennie Otto

Hennie Otto

Hendrik Johannes "Hennie" Otto is a South African professional golfer.Otto was born in Boksburg. He has played golf on the European Tour since 2000 having graduated from the Challenge Tour, but has only finished within the top 100 on the Order of Merit twice, in 2003 when he finished tied for...

 was just one stroke away from the tournament aggregate record of 262, set by Percy Alliss

Percy Alliss

Percy Alliss was an English professional golfer. He was the father of commentator and former golfer Peter Alliss....

 in 1935 on the course at San Remo, which even by the standards of the day was relatively short, at just 5,200 yards.

Winners

Year	Winner	Score
BMW Italian Open
2011	Robert Rock Robert Rock Robert Rock is an English professional golfer. He was born in Armitage, near Lichfield in Staffordshire. He joined the European Tour as an affiliate member in 2003 and has remained a member ever since....	267 (−21)
2010	Fredrik Andersson Hed Fredrik Andersson Hed Fredrik Andersson Hed is a Swedish golfer.Andersson Hed was born in Halmstad. He turned professional in 1992. He has had two victories on the Challenge Tour but found success hard to come by on the main European Tour, where he had to return to qualifying school on numerous occasions...	268 (−16)
2009	Daniel Vancsik Daniel Vancsik Daniel Vancsik is an Argentine professional golfer.Vancsik was born in Posadas, Argentina. He started playing the game when he was 12 at the Tacuru Club in Posadas-Misiones-Argentina....	267 (−17)
Methorios Capital Italian Open
2008	Hennie Otto Hennie Otto Hendrik Johannes "Hennie" Otto is a South African professional golfer.Otto was born in Boksburg. He has played golf on the European Tour since 2000 having graduated from the Challenge Tour, but has only finished within the top 100 on the Order of Merit twice, in 2003 when he finished tied for...	263 (−25)
Telecom Italia Open
2007*	Gonzalo Fernández-Castaño Gonzalo Fernández-Castaño Gonzalo Fernández-Castaño is a Spanish professional golfer.Fernández-Castaño was born in Madrid. He turned professional in 2004 and came eighth at that year's European Tour Qualifying School....	200 (−16)PO
2006	Francesco Molinari Francesco Molinari Francesco Molinari is an Italian professional golfer. He is a two-time winner on the European Tour and was a member of the 2010 European Ryder Cup team.-Background and amateur career:...	265 (−23)
2005	Steve Webster Steve Webster Steve Webster is an English professional golfer.Webster was born in Nuneaton, Warwickshire. He finished tied for 24th place in the 1995 Open Championship at St Andrews, winning the silver medal as low amateur ahead of Tiger Woods. He turned professional later that year.Webster won the 1995...	270 (−18)
2004*	Graeme McDowell Graeme McDowell Graeme McDowell MBE is a Northern Irish professional golfer.McDowell has won seven events on the European Tour, including the 2010 U.S. Open which was also his first win on the PGA Tour...	197 (−19)PO
Italian Open Telecom Italia
2003	Mathias Grönberg Mathias Grönberg Mathias David Grönberg is a Swedish professional golfer who has played on the European Tour, PGA Tour, and their second-tier tours.-Career:...	271 (−17)
2002*	Ian Poulter Ian Poulter Ian James Poulter is an English professional golfer who is a member of the world's top two professional golf tours, the U.S.-based PGA Tour and the European Tour. He has previously been as high as number five in the world rankings...	197 (−19)
Atlanet Italian Open
2001	Grégory Havret Gregory Havret Grégory Havret is a French professional golfer.Havret won the French Amateur Championship three years in a row from 1997 to 1999, and in 1999 he won the European Amateur. He also won a minor professional tournament as an amateur, the 1998 Omnium National.Havret turned professional in 1999 and won...	268 (−20)
Italian Open
2000	Ian Poulter Ian Poulter Ian James Poulter is an English professional golfer who is a member of the world's top two professional golf tours, the U.S.-based PGA Tour and the European Tour. He has previously been as high as number five in the world rankings...	267 (−21)
Fiat and Fila Italian Open
1999	Dean Robertson Dean Robertson Dean Robertson is a Scottish professional golfer.Robertson was born in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada. He attended Midland College in Texas, United States on a golf scholarship...	271 (−17)
Italian Open
1998*	Patrik Sjöland Patrik Sjöland Patrik Sjöland is a Swedish professional golfer.Sjöland was born in Borås. He turned professional in 1990 and after several season on the second tier Challenge Tour, graduated to the European Tour for the start of the 1996 season...	195 (−21)
Conte of Florence Italian Open
1997	Bernhard Langer Bernhard Langer Bernhard Langer is a German professional golfer. He is a two-time Masters champion, and was one of the world's leading golfers throughout the 1980s and 90s, being the first official number one ranked player in 1986...	273 (−15)
1996	Jim Payne Jim Payne (golfer) Jim Payne is an English professional golfer.Payne was born in Louth, Lincolnshire. He had a promising career as a tournament golfer which petered out by his early thirties, partly due to injury problems which had required him to undergo a spinal fusion operation at the age of 24. As an amateur he...	275 (−9)
Italian Open
1995	Sam Torrance Sam Torrance Sam Torrance OBE is a Scottish professional golfer and sports commentator. He was one of the leading players on the European Tour from the mid 1970s to the late 1990s, with 21 Tour wins. Torrance was a member of European Ryder Cup teams on eight occasions, from 1981 to 1995 consecutively; he was...	269 (−19)
Tisettanta Italian Open
1994	Eduardo Romero Eduardo Romero Eduardo Alejandro Romero is an Argentine professional golfer.Romero was born in Córdoba. He turned professional in 1982 at a relatively advanced age...	272 (−16)
Lancia Martini Italian Open
1993	Greg Turner Greg Turner Greg Turner is a New Zealand professional golfer.Turner was born in Dunedin. He attended Oklahoma University in the United States but has spent most of his career on the PGA Tour of Australasia and the European Tour. He won four tournaments on the European Tour and achieved a career best ranking...	267 (−21)
1992	Sandy Lyle Sandy Lyle Alexander Walter Barr "Sandy" Lyle, MBE is a Scottish professional golfer. Lyle has won two major championships during his career. Along with Nick Faldo and Ian Woosnam, he became one of Britain's top golfers during the 1980s...	270 (−18)
1991	Craig Parry Craig Parry Craig David Parry is an Australian professional golfer. He has been one of Australia's premier golfers since turning professional in 1985, and has 23 career victories, two of those wins being events on the PGA Tour; the 2002 WGC-NEC Invitational and the 2004 Ford Championship at Doral.Parry was...	279(−9)
1990	Richard Boxall Richard Boxall Richard Boxall is an English professional golfer.-Golf career:Boxall turned professional in 1982 and won a place on the European Tour at that year's final qualifying school. He played on the Tour until 2000, and won one Tour event, the 1990 Lancia Martini Italian Open...	267 (−21)
Lancia Italian Open
1989	Ronan Rafferty Ronan Rafferty Ronan P. Rafferty is an Northern Irish professional golfer, who formerly played on the European Tour.Rafferty was born in Newry, Northern Ireland. He won the Boys Amateur Championship aged fifteen and played in the Walker Cup aged seventeen...	273 (−15)
1988	Greg Norman Greg Norman Gregory John Norman AO is an Australian professional golfer and entrepreneur who spent 331 weeks as the world's Number 1 ranked golfer in the 1980s and 1990s...	270 (−18)
1987	Sam Torrance Sam Torrance Sam Torrance OBE is a Scottish professional golfer and sports commentator. He was one of the leading players on the European Tour from the mid 1970s to the late 1990s, with 21 Tour wins. Torrance was a member of European Ryder Cup teams on eight occasions, from 1981 to 1995 consecutively; he was...	271 (−17)PO
Italian Open
1986	David Feherty David Feherty David Feherty is a former professional golfer on the European Tour and PGA Tour. He now works as a writer and broadcaster with CBS Sports and Golf Channel.Feherty was born in Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland...	270 (−10)PO
1985	Manuel Piñero Manuel Piñero Manuel Piñero Sanchez is a Spanish professional golfer.Piñero was born in Badajoz. He turned professional in 1968 and established himself on the European Tour in the early 1970s. He won nine titles on the Tour, the most prestigious of them the 1977 British PGA Championship...	267 (−21)
1984	Sandy Lyle Sandy Lyle Alexander Walter Barr "Sandy" Lyle, MBE is a Scottish professional golfer. Lyle has won two major championships during his career. Along with Nick Faldo and Ian Woosnam, he became one of Britain's top golfers during the 1980s...	277 (−11)
1983	Bernhard Langer Bernhard Langer Bernhard Langer is a German professional golfer. He is a two-time Masters champion, and was one of the world's leading golfers throughout the 1980s and 90s, being the first official number one ranked player in 1986...	271 (−17)PO
1982	Mark James	280 (−8)
1981	José Maria Cañizares	280 (−8)PO
1980	Massimo Mannelli Massimo Mannelli Massimo Mannelli is an Italian professional golfer.He played regularly on the European Tour from the late 1970s to the early 1990s and finished a career high 40th on the European Tour Order of Merit in 1980, the year in which he won his home national open, the Italian Open. That was to be his only...	276 (−8)
1979	Brian Barnes Brian Barnes (golfer) Brian Barnes is a professional golfer. He was born in Addington, Surrey, England, and lives in England, but he represented Scotland at the international level...	281 (−7)PO
1978	Dale Hayes Dale Hayes Dale Hayes is a South African professional golfer.-Career outline:Hayes won the 15–17 Boys category at the Junior World Golf Championships in 1969. He turned professional the following year and quickly became a successful pro. He won more than a dozen events in South Africa, and was runner up on...	293 (+5)
1977	Ángel Gallardo Angel Gallardo Ángel Gallardo is a Spanish professional golfer.Gallardo was a member of the European Tour from its first official season in 1972 until 1982. He finished in the top one hundred of the European Tour Order of Merit in each of those eleven seasons, with a best ranking of tenth in 1977...	286 (−2)PO
1976	Baldovino Dassù Baldovino Dassu Baldovino Dassù is an Italian golfer.Dassù won the 1970 British Youths Open Amateur Championship and played for Italy in that year's Eisenhower Trophy. He turned professional in 1971 and was a regular on the European Tour from its first official season in 1972 until the mid 1980s...	280 (−8)
1975	Billy Casper Billy Casper William Earl Casper, Jr. is an American professional golfer who was one of the most prolific tournament winners on the PGA Tour from the mid 1950s to the mid 1970s.-Early years:...	286 (−2)
1974**	Peter Oosterhuis Peter Oosterhuis Peter A. Oosterhuis is an English professional golfer and golf analyst.-Early years, amateur golf:Oosterhuis was born in London...	249
1973	Tony Jacklin Tony Jacklin Anthony Jacklin CBE is an English golfer, who was the most successful British player of his generation. He was also the most successful European Ryder Cup captain ever.-Early life and education:...	284 (−4)
1972	Norman Wood	271
1971	Ramón Sota Ramón Sota Ramón Sota Ocejo is a Spanish professional golfer.Sota was born in Pedreña, Cantabria. He won many professional tournaments around the world including some of the major national opens around Europe that formed the basis of the European Tour when it was formed in 1972. Those wins included his own...	282
1961–70	No tournament
1960	Brian Wilkes	285
1959	Peter Thomson	269
1958	Peter Alliss Peter Alliss Peter Alliss is an English professional golfer, BBC television presenter and commentator, author and golf course designer. Alliss is known for his charismatic and unique style of commentary, often displaying a witty demeanour...	282
1957	Harold Henning Harold Henning Harold Henning was a South African professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour and the Senior PGA Tour....	273
1956	Antonio Cerdá Antonio Cerdá Antonio Cerdá is an Argentine professional golfer.Cerdá finished second in the 1951 British Open to Max Faulkner, and second in the 1953 British Open to Ben Hogan, among seven consecutive top-ten finishes in the championship. He won several national opens in Europe in the 1950s and won the first...	284
1955	Flory Van Donck Flory Van Donck Flory Van Donck was a Belgian professional golfer.Van Donck is widely regarded as the greatest ever Belgian golfer. During his career, he won more than fifty tournaments worldwide, including many of the most prestigious national opens of Europe...	287
1954	Ugo Grappasonni Ugo Grappasonni Ugo Grappasonni was an Italian professional golfer.Grappasonni was born in Rome and was one of the leading golfers in Italy, winning his national open twice, in 1950 and 1954, and the National Omnium on four occasions. He also won the French, Dutch and Swiss Opens, the latter twice...	272
1953	Flory Van Donck Flory Van Donck Flory Van Donck was a Belgian professional golfer.Van Donck is widely regarded as the greatest ever Belgian golfer. During his career, he won more than fifty tournaments worldwide, including many of the most prestigious national opens of Europe...	267
1952	Eric Brown Eric Brown (golfer) Eric Chalmers Brown was a Scottish professional golfer.Brown was born in Bathgate and played at the local golf course. He represented Great Britain in the Ryder Cup in 1953, 1955, 1957 and 1959 and had a 4-4-0 win-loss-half record. He won all of his four singles matches but lost his four foursomes...	273
1951	Jimmy Adams Jimmy Adams (golfer) James Adams was a Scottish professional golfer who was chosen for five Ryder Cup sides and achieved high finishes in The Open Championship on several occasions ....	289
1950	Ugo Grappasonni Ugo Grappasonni Ugo Grappasonni was an Italian professional golfer.Grappasonni was born in Rome and was one of the leading golfers in Italy, winning his national open twice, in 1950 and 1954, and the National Omnium on four occasions. He also won the French, Dutch and Swiss Opens, the latter twice...	281
1949	Hassan Hassanein Hassan Hassanein Hassan Hassanein was an Egyptian professional golfer.Hassanein was born in Cairo. He began his golf career as a caddy. He is considered Egypt's greatest professional golfer and played internationally...	263
1948	Aldo Casera	267
1947	Flory Van Donck Flory Van Donck Flory Van Donck was a Belgian professional golfer.Van Donck is widely regarded as the greatest ever Belgian golfer. During his career, he won more than fifty tournaments worldwide, including many of the most prestigious national opens of Europe...	263
1939–46	No tournament due to World War II World War II World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
1938	Flory Van Donck Flory Van Donck Flory Van Donck was a Belgian professional golfer.Van Donck is widely regarded as the greatest ever Belgian golfer. During his career, he won more than fifty tournaments worldwide, including many of the most prestigious national opens of Europe...	276
1937	Marcel Dallemagne Marcel Dallemagne Marcel Dallemagne was a French professional golfer who won several prestigious tournaments in Europe in the 1930s and 1940s.-Tournament wins :*1927 Belgian Open*1930 French Closed Championship*1932 French Closed Championship*1931 Swiss Open...	276
1936	Henry Cotton	268
1935	Percy Alliss Percy Alliss Percy Alliss was an English professional golfer. He was the father of commentator and former golfer Peter Alliss....	262
1934	N. Nutley	132
1933	No tournament
1932	Aubrey Boomer	143
1931	Auguste Boyer Auguste Boyer Auguste Boyer was a French golfer prominent on the European circuit in the 1920s and 1930s. He won four Italian Opens, four German Opens, three Swiss Opens, two Belgian Opens, and one Dutch Open.-Tournament wins :this list may be incomplete...	141
1930	Auguste Boyer Auguste Boyer Auguste Boyer was a French golfer prominent on the European circuit in the 1920s and 1930s. He won four Italian Opens, four German Opens, three Swiss Opens, two Belgian Opens, and one Dutch Open.-Tournament wins :this list may be incomplete...	140
1929	René Golias	143
1928	Auguste Boyer Auguste Boyer Auguste Boyer was a French golfer prominent on the European circuit in the 1920s and 1930s. He won four Italian Opens, four German Opens, three Swiss Opens, two Belgian Opens, and one Dutch Open.-Tournament wins :this list may be incomplete...	145
1927	Percy Alliss Percy Alliss Percy Alliss was an English professional golfer. He was the father of commentator and former golfer Peter Alliss....	145
1926	Auguste Boyer Auguste Boyer Auguste Boyer was a French golfer prominent on the European circuit in the 1920s and 1930s. He won four Italian Opens, four German Opens, three Swiss Opens, two Belgian Opens, and one Dutch Open.-Tournament wins :this list may be incomplete...	147
1925	Francesco Pasquali	154

* – 2002, 2004, and 2007 tournaments shortened to three rounds because of rain.

** – Just nine holes played in the first round of the 1974 tournament.

Multiple winners

• 4 wins
  • Auguste Boyer
    Auguste Boyer
    Auguste Boyer was a French golfer prominent on the European circuit in the 1920s and 1930s. He won four Italian Opens, four German Opens, three Swiss Opens, two Belgian Opens, and one Dutch Open.-Tournament wins :this list may be incomplete...
    
    : 1926, 1928, 1930, 1931
  • Flory Van Donck
    Flory Van Donck
    Flory Van Donck was a Belgian professional golfer.Van Donck is widely regarded as the greatest ever Belgian golfer. During his career, he won more than fifty tournaments worldwide, including many of the most prestigious national opens of Europe...
    
    : 1938, 1947, 1953, 1955
• 2 wins
  • Percy Alliss
    Percy Alliss
    Percy Alliss was an English professional golfer. He was the father of commentator and former golfer Peter Alliss....
    
    : 1927, 1935
  • Ugo Grappasonni
    Ugo Grappasonni
    Ugo Grappasonni was an Italian professional golfer.Grappasonni was born in Rome and was one of the leading golfers in Italy, winning his national open twice, in 1950 and 1954, and the National Omnium on four occasions. He also won the French, Dutch and Swiss Opens, the latter twice...
    
    : 1950, 1954
  • Sandy Lyle
    Sandy Lyle
    Alexander Walter Barr "Sandy" Lyle, MBE is a Scottish professional golfer. Lyle has won two major championships during his career. Along with Nick Faldo and Ian Woosnam, he became one of Britain's top golfers during the 1980s...
    
    : 1984, 1992
  • Sam Torrance
    Sam Torrance
    Sam Torrance OBE is a Scottish professional golfer and sports commentator. He was one of the leading players on the European Tour from the mid 1970s to the late 1990s, with 21 Tour wins. Torrance was a member of European Ryder Cup teams on eight occasions, from 1981 to 1995 consecutively; he was...
    
    : 1987, 1995
  • Ian Poulter
    Ian Poulter
    Ian James Poulter is an English professional golfer who is a member of the world's top two professional golf tours, the U.S.-based PGA Tour and the European Tour. He has previously been as high as number five in the world rankings...
    
    : 2000, 2002

External links

• Coverage on the European Tour's official site