The Grand Final returns to Club de Golf Alcanada for a sixth time in its history this week having successfully hosted the season finale in 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025.
With five visits to look back on, take a look at the challenge presented by the Alcúdia venue, and what the 45-player field will need to do in order to tame it…
With the course being set right on Mallorca coastline the area often sees blustery conditions, making scoring difficult.
In 2019, Francesco Laporta triumphed with a six under total as one of only eight players under par for the week. When the season finale returned to Mallorca in 2022, Nathan Kimsey reached nine under, before 2023 saw Marco Penge record a ten under total as one of only five players under par at its conclusion. A 23 under par winning total by Kristoffer Reitan in 2024 stands as an outlier, with James Morrison’s 15 under par last time out enough to secure a three stroke victory.
Par is often your friend at Club de Golf Alcanada and alongside managing your scoring on the following crucial holes, having a sound gameplan is of high importance.
Hole 1
This is almost the perfect hole to settle any nerves at the Grand Final. The 501-yard par five ranked as the second easiest hole on the golf course across the four tournament days last year. In total there were seven eagles and 91 birdies across the four rounds and has also proved to be a key hole in previous years, with 2024 winner Reitan five under par on that hole alone across his four rounds.
Hole 4
The par three fourth hole played as one of the hardest on the course last year, particularly in round two. As well as being a relatively long par three at 206 yards, a huge greenside bunker on the right suggests bailing out to the left. Do that and there’s a testing up and down to come, with the green one of the more undulating on the course.
Hole 15
Birdie opportunities are few and far between at Alcanada, but hole 15 is certainly one to take advantage of. The driveable par four sits at 357 yards and gives the player a choice of how to tackle the hole. Lay up and leave yourself an up and down for birdie or take the risk of driving the green. In each year the Rolex Grand Final has taken place at Alcanada, the 15th has played under par, and last year it proved the easiest hole of the week, playing 0.44 strokes under par.
For the third year in a row, the Green Drive will return to the 15th hole meaning that for every player that drives the green, €100 will be donated to a local tree planting and organic farming project through the Mallorca Preservation Foundation. Last year 31 players drove the green across the four tournament rounds.
Hole 17
Coming down the stretch on Sunday, every hole will be crucial, but maybe none more so than the 17th. It’s another testing par three that Alcanada throws at the players, with an undulating green, wind blowing straight from the sea and bunkers running the entire length of the left-hand side of the green contributing to one of the tougher holes on the back nine. Across the four rounds last year, it played the second hardest hole the course with a 3.19 scoring average, playing most difficult in round one, where the field averaged 3.42 strokes.
Hole 18
It goes without saying, but the 18th hole on Sunday is quite possibly the toughest hole you will ever face as a HotelPlanner Tour. In last year’s edition, it was the fifth toughest hole of Sunday’s closing round, with just 6 players making birdie. With the smaller field in Mallorca, every shot counts, and when one bad stroke could change the course of your career as will be the case for many of the players this week and nerves can get the better of anyone as the players battle it out for the all-important top 15 on the Road to Mallorca Rankings.
