The HotelPlanner Tour has a history of preparing the next generation of golfing stars for the top of the game. As the 31st edition of the Tour’s season-ending Grand Final approaches, the 45 players teeing it up at Club de Golf Alcanada from October 29-November 1 will be looking to add their name to the long list of graduates who continue to achieve great things in their careers.
Here are five players to have made their mark in previous editions of the Grand Final…
Marco Penge
Marco Penge came of age during the 2023 Rolex Grand Final at Club de Golf Alcanada, where he put on a clinic over four days in Mallorca. The Englishman, starting the week outside the promotion places, ended the week a six-shot victor, and hasn’t looked back since. After narrowly keeping his DP World Tour playing privileges in 2024, he returned to the spotlight in 2025, becoming a winner on Golf’s Global Tour with a three-shot triumph in the Hainan Classic, before going on to win two more times that year, at the Danish Golf Championship and Open de España presented by Madrid, Penge would finish second on the Race to Dubai, earning dual membership on the PGA Tour, where he has enjoyed a solid season, with a top-five finish to go alongside two further finishes inside the top ten in America. Now closing in on the top 50 golfers in the world, Penge is a star who keeps proving why he is one of the best players in the world at the age of 28.
Rasmus Højgaard
Rasmus teed it up in the season finale back in 2019 as an 18-year-old and would go on to finish tied 13th, as Club de Golf Alcanada made its debut as a host venue of the Grand Final. That finish saw the Dane earn graduation to the DP World Tour, and he hasn’t looked back. He’s now a five-time winner on Golf’s Global Tour and finished second on the Race to Dubai behind Rory McIlroy in 2024 to earn one of the ten PGA Tour cards on offer. Højgaard was part of Luke Donald’s European Ryder Cup side in 2025, and has registered a top five, two top tens and four top 25s this year on the PGA Tour and sits inside the top 75 on the Official World Golf Rankings.
Victor Perez
Victor Perez’s journey to being a Rolex Series winner began on the HotelPlanner Tour, as he earned graduation thanks to a second-place finish in the season finale back in 2018. The Frenchman finished as the Number Four that year and has since gone on to win three times on the DP World Tour. The first of those came the following year when he triumphed in the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship, before he added the Dutch Open to his growing list of accolades in 2022. In 2023 he earned the biggest win of his career with victory in the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship on his way to earning dual membership with the PGA Tour.
Kristoffer Reitan
Kristoffer Reitan arrived in Mallorca two years ago sitting outside the promotion places, but he would leave as a HotelPlanner Tour winner and with a DP World Tour card. Proof that the final week on the Road to Mallorca can change the course of a career, Reitan produced a sensational display across four rounds to climb 29 places to seventh following his breakthrough win. He continued that into 2025, becoming a winner on the DP World Tour after recording a breathtaking nine under par 62 on the final day of the Soudal Open to force a play-off, before winning on the second extra hole. This term, Reitan clinched his maiden PGA Tour victory at the signature Truist Championship where he won by two strokes after carding rounds of 66, 70, 64 and 69 at Quail Hollow.
Angel Ayora
Angel Ayora is another player that impressed at Club de Golf Alcanada in 2024 and is now enjoying a phenomenal debut season on the DP World Tour. Already guaranteed promotion heading into the season-finale, Ayora carded a course record ten under par 62 on the second day of the Rolex Grand Final to climb into the lead and led by two going into the final round in Mallorca. Although it wasn’t to be on the final day, Ayora’s tied second finish would see him end the season fourth on the Road to Mallorca. At just 23-years-old, the young Spaniard is certainly one to watch for the future. With a third place and a further 16 top ten finishes to his name, Ayora is one of the most exciting prospects in golf right now and is just another example of the pathway proving fruitful.
