The Road to Mallorca returns to Portugal for the Open de Portugal at Royal Óbidos and the 25th event of the 2025 season. Here’s everything you need to know…
Last year at Royal Óbidos
The 2025 edition will end Royal Óbidos’ five-year stint on the Road to Mallorca. Since 2020, the Seve Ballesteros-designed course has proven one of the most popular stops on the HotelPlanner Tour, boasting a 7,200-yard layout that demands length off the tee with numerous water hazard’s coming into play across the course.
Regarded as one of the country’s finest venues, those teeing it up 100 kilometres north of Lisbon will be looking to enjoy one last go around this storied venue before the Road to Mallorca visits pastures new in 2026.
Historic event
The Open de Portugal holds a prestigious place within European golf, having first been played over 70 years ago. Between 1973 and 2010, the event held a spot on the DP World Tour schedule before once again returning in 2017 as a duel-ranked event with the HotelPlanner Tour.
Former European Ryder Cup captains Colin Montgomerie and Sam Torrance both tasted victory at the event back in the 1980s, while Miguel Angel Jiménez and Thomas Bjørn won the Open de Portugal in 2004 and 2010 respectively. German Marcel Schneider, Frenchman Pierre Pineau, Englishman Marco Penge and American Matt Oshrine have all won at Royal Óbidos since the event become sole-sanctioned on the HotelPlanner Tour in 2021.
Out to impress on home soil
Pedro Figueiredo will tee it up in his home HotelPlanner Tour event looking to add vital points to his Road to Mallorca Rankings tally. The 34-year-old currently sits 37th in the season-long Rankings, and with four events before the Rolex Grand Final supported by The R&A the Portuguese arrives on home soil in good form having registered four top 25 finishes in as many starts on the Road to Mallorca. Figueiredo also has an impressive record at this week’s venue, having placed in a tie for 18th in 2020 and inside the top 30 one year later.
Slightly further down the Rankings, Tomás Gouveia needs a big week if he’s to break into the top 68 before the HotelPlanner Tour heads to China at the start of October. The 31-year-old will be arriving at Royal Óbidos is confident mood, however, after he tasted victory on home soil back in January at the PT Tour's Palmares Open II, where he ended the week on 22 under par.
Five to go
There are just five events to go before we find out who will earn promotion to the DP World Tour at the conclusion of the Rolex Grand Final. The top nine positions on the Rankings remained the same after last week’s GAC Rosa Challenge Tour at Rosa Golf Club, with Scotsman David Law still leading the way and one of three players eyeing a third victory and immediate promotion to the DP World Tour this week. South African Daniel van Tonder and Italian Renato Paratore, also inside the top ten on the Rankings, are the other players eyeing a third victory of the season in Portugal.
