Great North Open
(Redirected from Slaley Hall Northumberland Challenge)
Template:Use dmy dates Template:More footnotes Template:Infobox golf tournament The Great North Open was the final name of a European Tour golf tournament which was played at Slaley Hall, a country house golf resort in Northumberland in North East England, six years out of seven between 1996 and 2002. It was also played as the Slaley Hall Northumberland Challenge and the Compaq European Grand Prix. The winners included one major champion, Retief Goosen, and two winners of the European Tour Order of Merit, Colin Montgomerie and Lee Westwood. The prize fund peaked at €1,311,090 in 2001 before dropping to €935,760 in the tournament's last year, which was below average for a European Tour event at that time.
Winners
| Year | Winner | Score | To par | Margin of victory |
Runner(s)-up | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Great North Open | ||||||
| 2002 | Template:Flagicon Miles Tunnicliff | 279 | −9 | 4 strokes | Template:Flagicon Sven Strüver | |
| 2001 | Template:Flagicon Andrew Coltart | 277 | −11 | 1 stroke | Template:Flagicon Paul Casey Template:Flagicon Stephen Gallacher | |
| Compaq European Grand Prix | ||||||
| 2000 | Template:Flagicon Lee Westwood | 276 | −12 | 3 strokes | Template:Flagicon Freddie Jacobson | |
| 1999 | Template:Flagicon David Park | 274 | −14 | 1 stroke | Template:Flagicon David Carter Template:Flagicon Retief Goosen | |
| 1998 | AbandonedTemplate:Efn | |||||
| 1997 | Template:Flagicon Colin Montgomerie | 270 | −18 | 5 strokes | Template:Flagicon Retief Goosen | |
| Slaley Hall Northumberland Challenge | ||||||
| 1996 | Template:Flagicon Retief Goosen | 277 | −11 | 2 strokes | Template:Flagicon Ross Drummond | |