Open de Baleares
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The Open de Baleares was a European Tour
PGA European Tour
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 golf
Golf
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 tournament which was played annually from 1988 to 1995. It had five names in eight years. It was staged at various courses on Majorca, the largest of the Balearic Islands
Balearic Islands
The Balearic Islands are an archipelago of Spain in the western Mediterranean Sea, near the eastern coast of the Iberian Peninsula.The four largest islands are: Majorca, Minorca, Ibiza and Formentera. The archipelago forms an autonomous community and a province of Spain with Palma as the capital...

 of Spain
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. The most notable winner was five times major championship
Men's major golf championships
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 winner Seve Ballesteros, who won three of the first five events. The prize fund in sterling terms peaked at £302,670 in 1993 and by 1995 it was down to £246,023, which was one of the smallest on the European Tour that year.

Winners

YearWinnerScore
Turespana Open de Baleares
1995   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...

 
274 (14)
1994   Barry Lane
Barry Lane
Barry Lane is an English professional golfer.Lane was born in Hayes, Middlesex. He turned professional in 1976 and first played on the European Tour in 1982. For the first few seasons he failed to finish high enough on the Order of Merit to retain his card and he made several visits to the...

 
269 (-19)
Turespana Iberia Open de Baleares
1993   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...

 
277 (-11)PO
Turespana Open de Baleares
1992   Seve Ballesteros  277 (-11)PO
Open de Baleares
1991   Gavan Levenson
Gavan Levenson
Gavan Neil Levenson is a South African professional golfer.Levenson was born in Johannesburg. He represented South Africa in the 1976 Eisenhower Trophy and won several major amateur tournaments including the French and Rhodesian Open Amateur Championships in 1978...

 
282 (-6)
Open Renault de Baleares
1990   Seve Ballesteros  269 (-19)PO
1989   Ove Sellberg
Ove Sellberg
Ove Bertil Sellberg is a Swedish professional golfer.Sellberg was born in Stockholm. He turned professional in 1982 and played on the European Tour through most of the 1980s and 1990s, twice finishing in the top twenty of the Order of Merit...

 
279 (-9)
Mallorca Open De Baleares
1988   Seve Ballesteros  272 (16)

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