The Rolex Grand Final supported by The R&A has a history of finding the next generation of golfing superstars.
With this year marking the 30th anniversary of the HotelPlanner Tour’s season-ending showpiece, all 45 players teeing it up at Club de Golf Alcanada from October 30-November 2 will be looking to add their name to a growing list of graduates that continue to achieve great things in the game.
Here are five players to have made their mark in the final event of the season…
Rasmus Højgaard
Rasmus Højgaard 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. Now, at just 23, he’s 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. This year he has teed it up in all four Major Championships, making the cut in all four, and was a key part of Luke Donald’s European Ryder Cup side as they defeated the United States in New York.
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.
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, doing so in the Danish Golf Championship and then most recently in the Open de España presented by Madrid. Penge currently sits second on the 2025 Race to Dubai and has guaranteed dual membership with the PGA TOUR next year.
Kristoffer Reitan
Kristoffer Reitan arrived in Mallorca 12 months ago sitting outside the promotion places, but he would end it as a winner on the HotelPlanner Tour 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 has continued that form throughout the duration of 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. The Norwegian has also posted seven other top ten finishes and currently sits in fourth position on the Race to Dubai Rankings.
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 22-years-old, the young Spaniard is certainly one to watch for the future. Six top ten finishes in his first season on Golf’s Global Tour suggest exactly that.
