The Saint-Omer Open is an annual men's professional
golf
Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various Golf club, clubs to hit a Golf ball, ball into a series of holes on a golf course, course in as few strokes as possible.
Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standa ...
tournament played at
Saint-Omer Golf Club in
Saint-Omer
Saint-Omer (; ; Picard: ''Saint-Onmé'') is a commune and sub-prefecture of the Pas-de-Calais department in France.
It is west-northwest of Lille on the railway to Calais, and is located in the Artois province. The town is named after Sa ...
, France. The tournament was founded in 1997 and was part of the
MasterCard Tour a year later, before taking its place on the
Challenge Tour
The Challenge Tour, currently titled as the HotelPlanner Tour for sponsorship reasons and also sometimes referred to as the European Challenge Tour, is the second-tier men's professional golf tour in Europe. It is operated by the PGA European To ...
for the 2000 season.
In 2003 it also became an official money event on the
European Tour
The European Tour, currently titled as the DP World Tour for sponsorship reasons, and legally the PGA European Tour or the European Tour Group, is the leading men's professional golf tour in Europe. The organisation also operates the European ...
, but since it was played during the same week as the
U.S. Open (one of golf's four
major championships), the tour's leading players were not available to play. It had the smallest purse available on the European Tour.
It was removed from the European Tour schedule in 2014 but remained on the Challenge Tour.
In 2022, the event became part of the
Alps Tour schedule.
Winners
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Former Challenge Tour events
Former European Tour events
Golf tournaments in France
Recurring sporting events established in 1997
Sport in Pas-de-Calais
Saint-Omer
1997 establishments in France
Mixed sports competitions