Field in Focus: at the Open de España

<strong>Field in Focus at the Open de Espana</strong>

<em>Ahead of the start of the Open de España, <strong>europeantour.com</strong> takes a closer look at the field in residence at PGA Catalunya Resort in Girona this week...</em>

In the field, there are:

<strong>156 players from 24 different countries including 28 Spaniards</strong>

<strong>77 European Tour winners with 261 European Tour victories between them</strong>

<strong>4 players who have won at PGA Catalunya before</strong><br />Thomas Björn (1999 Subaru Sarazen World Open)<br />Thomas Levet (2009 Open de España)<br />Simon Wakefield (2010 Qualifying School Final)<br />Carlos Del Moral (2013 Qualifying School Final)

<strong>11 former winners of the Open de España competing</strong><br />Thomas Björn (1998)<br />Jarmo Sandelin (1999)<br />Robert Karlsson (2001)<br />Sergio Garcia (2002)<br />Kenneth Ferrie (2003)<br />Niclas Fasth (2006)<br />Thomas Levet (2009)<br />Alvaro Quiros (2010)<br />Thomas Aiken (2011)<br />Francesco Molinari (2012)<br />Raphaël Jacquelin (2013)

<strong>2 Major Champions who have 3 Major victories between them</strong><br />José Maria Olazábal<br />Paul Lawrie

<strong>1 European Tour Number One</strong><br />Robert Karlsson

<strong>16 Ryder Cup players</strong>

<strong>2 Ryder Cup Captains</strong><br />José Maria Olazábal (2012)<br />Paul McGinley (2014)

<strong>1 WGC winner</strong><br />Francesco Molinari (2010 WGC-HSBC Champions)

<strong>3 BMW PGA Champions competing</strong><br />José Maria Olazábal (1994)<br />Miguel Angel Jiménez (2008)<br />Matteo Manassero (2013)

<strong>13 of the 2014 European Tour winners competing</strong><br />Felipe Aguilar<br />Thomas Aiken<br />Thomas Björn<br />Daniel Brooks<br />Alejandro Cañizares<br />George Coetzee<br />Marco Crespi<br />Ross Fisher<br />Sergio Garcia<br />Miguel Angel Jiménez<br />Pablo Larrazábal<br />Alexander Levy<br />Morten Ørum Madsen