Quinn Insurance British Masters

Infobox_Golf_Tournament
tournament_name = Quinn Insurance
British Masters


location = flagicon|GBR Great Britain
establishment = 1946
course = The Belfry
(Brabazon Course)
par = 72
yardage = 7230
tour = European Tour
format = Stroke play
purse = £1,800,000
month_played = September
defunct =
aggregate = 266 Peter Baker (1993)
to-par = -22 "(as above)"
score =
Current Champion = flagicon|ESP Gonzalo Fernández-Castaño

The Quinn Insurance British Masters is a European Tour golf tournament. It was founded in 1946 as the British Masters and has been a fixture on the Tour's schedule since the tour was established in 1972, apart from a one year gap in 1984. In that time, the tournament has been known by many different names as sponsors have come and gone. During the 1980s it was one of the most lucrative events on the European Tour with a prize fund that was as high as third among the tournaments on the schedule, but its status, or at least its relative level of prize money, has declined considerably in recent years.

The tournament has been played at many different venues, and when the Quinn Group took over as sponsors in 2006, the event was moved again, this time to the Group owned Belfry. Having traditionally been held in the spring, in 2007 it was rescheduled to September in order to avoid a clash with PGA Tour's Players Championship, which had been moved to May.

The 1967 event was particularly notable for providing British television with it's first live hole in one, as Tony Jacklin aced the 16th hole at Royal St George's.

Winners

Multiple winners

*2 wins: Seve Ballesteros, Harry Bradshaw, Bernard Gallacher, Bernard Hunt, Tony Jacklin, Cobie Legrange, Bobby Locke, Greg Norman, Christy O'Connor Snr, Dai Rees, Peter Thomson, Harry Weetman, Ian Woosnam

External links

* [http://www.quinndirectbritishmasters.com/ism/sites/masters/index.php Official site]
* [http://www.europeantour.com/default.sps?pageid=127&pagegid=%7BAEFB93B0%2DEFF5%2D4C05%2DAB0F%2DFD08D947D944%7D&eventid=2008078&infosid=3&pageno=1 Coverage on the European Tour's official site]