He is one of the men of the moment. Angel Hidalgo was proclaimed champion this Sunday of Spanish Open of golf, crowning itself in the Leisure club from Madrid and through this you will earn a good financial prize. It was the first victory of his career on the European Tour and the Malaga man pocketed a six-figure check which is also the largest of the prizes handed out at the second oldest golf event in history . Europe.
The Madrid Open is one of the events with the best financial resources when it comes to tournaments going beyond the Rolex series and 2.9 million euros were distributed. 494,000 will go into the pocket of Ángel Hidalgo, the big winner of the weekend in the Spanish capital, more than double what the champion of the first edition received in 2019.
For his part, Jon Rahmwhom he beat against all odds in the tiebreaker, will receive 320,000 euros, while the other Spaniard who fought to the end for the championship, David Puigwill win 119,000 euros after the close of the Spanish Golf Open.
The prize that Ángel Hidalgo wins after the victory
Ángel Hidalgo will never forget this September 29, 2024, the day he celebrated his victory at the Spanish Open and his first triumph on the European circuit after dominating the competition for four days and facing the hunt of the great national idol , Jon Rahm. who had a nice duel with the player from Marbella which was resolved on the second hole of the playoffs.
“I’m going to dinner with friends and then I just want to rest, sleep well and we’ll see. There are still a lot of courageous bulls behind, especially one,” said Hidalgo, at the end of the third day, which ended with a two-shot lead over Rahm.
He lion of Barrikamore experienced in these struggles, came back from these two blows on the last day and took the tiebreaker by playing in the same match as Hidalgo and one of the revelations, the young Catalan Puig, 22 years old, who also aspired to victory.
Hidalgo, 26 years old and number 398 in the world rankings, started the first part of the course irregularly. He made a bogey at the first hole, then two more at holes five and six, although he managed to recover with three birds this allowed him to keep his options intact heading into the second half.
The frenetic day also presented eventual victory options to Puig, who took the lead after making four birdies on the first seven holes. On the other hand, an error on the 8th, as well as others on the 11th, 13th and 15th, took him away from the fight.
