With this win Pablo Martin-Benavides secured his first European Tour International Schedule victory in his fifth European Tour event as an amateur and in doing so makes European Tour history by becoming the first amateur to win on The European Tour International Schedule, in the 1,145th event in European Tour since 1972.
• Beats the best performance by an amateur in an official European Tour event of tied third by Nick Flanagan at the 2004 ANZ Championship. (Russell Claydon (1988 UAP European Under 25 Championship) and Jan Erik Dahlstrom (1992 UAP Under 25s Championship) both tied second but were in European Tour Approved Special Events
• Aged 20 and 346 days is the second youngest winner on the 2007 European Tour, behind Anton Haig (Johnnie Walker Classic)
• Aged 20 and 346 days becomes the youngest winner of the Estoril Open de Portugal, beating the record of Howard Clark, who was 23 when he won in 1978
• Becomes the fourth youngest Spanish player to win an official European Tour event in European Tour history, behind Seve Ballesteros (19 and 121 days – 1976 Dutch Open), Sergio Garcia (19 and 176 days – 1999 Irish Open and 19 and 267 days – 1999 German Masters) and José Maria Olazábal (20 and 217 days – 1986 European Masters)
• Aged 20 and 346 days becomes the 12th youngest winner in European Tour history
• Beats his best previous European Tour performance of tied 22nd at the 2003 Open de España, where he tied for the lead going into the final round
• His seven shot deficit after 36 holes matches the biggest winning comeback at half way, set by Peter Hedblom at the Maybank Malaysian Open
• The 11th first-time winner on the 2007 European Tour International Schedule, following Y E Yang (HSBC Champions), José Manuel Lara (UBS Hong Kong Open), Nathan Green (Blue Chip New Zealand Open), Alvaro Quiros (Alfred Dunhill Championship), Ariel Cante (Joburg Open), Mikko Ilonen (Enjoy Jakarta Astro Indonesian Open), Haig (Johnnie Walker Classic), Liang Wen-chong (Clariden Leu Singapore Masters), Chapchai Nirat (TCL Classic) and Daniel Vancsik (Madeira Islands Open BPI)
• Fifth consecutive first-time winner, following Haig, Wen-chong, Nirat and Vancsik
• First time five consecutive first time winners since Charlie Wi (2006 Maybank Malaysian Open), Geoff Ogilvy (2006 WGC – Accenture Match Play), Simon Dyson (2006 Enjoy Jakarta HSBC Indonesia Open), Mardan Mamat (2006 OSIM Singapore Masters) and Johan Edfors (2006 TCL Classic)
• The 139th Spanish victory on The European Tour
• The 25th different Spanish player to win on The European Tour
• The 339th different player to win on The European Tour since 1972
• Follows Jamie Benito (1973), Hal Underwood (1975), Salvador Balbuena (1976), Manuel Ramos (1977), Howard Clark (1978), Tony Johnstone (1984), Warren Humphreys (1985), Mike Harwood (1988), Colin Montgomerie (1989), Mike McLean (1990), Phillip Price (1994), Adam Hunter (1995), Michael Jonzon (1997), Van Phillips (1999), Gary Orr (2000) and Carl Petterson (2002), to make the Estoril Open de Portgual their debut win
• Since the event became part of The European Tour in 1973, joins Jamie Beniot (1973), Salvador Balbuena (1976), Manuel Ramos (1977) and Miguel Angel Jiménez (2004) as Spanish winners of the Estoril Open de Portgual
