BMW Italian Open Live

The European Tour will host the BMW Italian Open, for a prize purse of 1.3 million Euros, in Turin, Italy next week. This is one of four tournaments that will be held around Italy this week, including the Iberdrola Open Cala Millor Mallorca, Madrid Masters and the BMW PGA Championship. This tournament will feature a terrific European Tour field and you can watch it live by getting your membership at any of the banners on this page. Simply click on the links above or below for more information.

The BMW Italian Open is May 6^th to the 9^th at Royal Park. This tournament last year had Britain dominated as English golfers Graeme Storm and Robert Rock tied for first along with Marcus Fraser and Paul Lawrie. This year, golfers gear up for a great event as first place in the tournament takes home 216,660 Euros, second gets 144,440 Euros and third takes a check home of 81, 380. The tournament will take place at Royal Park I Roveri, which is a 7,282 yard course with a score of Par 72 and was built in 1972.

The entry list for the first hole tee off includes Gregory Bourdy, Shiv Capur, Chris Gane, Gary Murphy and Stephen O'Hara while the 10 will have Philip Price, Robert Coles and Robert Rock among the players there. Others include Sam Hutsby, Oliver Fisher and Gary Boyd along with many other great European Tour golfers. If you want to watch this tournament in high quality video then simply click on the banners located on this page. You can watch right from your computer, streaming to you live anywhere in the world.

Posted: 7th May 2009

That date commences the first day of play for the BMW Italian Open 2009, this year being the first the tournament has borne the German auto maker's name. BMW has partnered up with a total of three tournaments in Europe this year. 

Colin Montgomerie is headlining the tournament, the 45 year-old Scot a favorite to win after upping his game the last few years. Monty has had 10 top ten finished in major championship performances, coming in second to Tiger Woods in 2005, losing by only five shots. It was announced earlier this year that Montgomerie had been chosen to captain the 2010 Ryder Cup team, where he has competed no less than 8 times. 

Other players joining Montgomerie on the Italian Open field this Thursday will be U.S. Champion John Daly, who won the PGA Championship in 1991 and The Open Championship in 1995. Also playing will be Anders Hansen from Denmark, England's Justin Rose and David Howell, Jarmo Sandelin from Sweden, Raphael Jacquelin of France and Australian player Marcus Fraser. Rounding out the competition is another Major's Champion Paul Lawrie, representing Scotland.

The tournament, founded in 1925, offers up a purse of € 1,700,000 for players and is played at the Royal Park G&CC in Turin, Italy this year. In 2008, we saw Hennie Otto take the title with a card score of 263 and finishing 25 under par. Otto played well, barely taking the win from Oliver Wilson from England and putting Robert Karlsson in third place. 

Catch this year's action from Italy May 7^th – 10^th with your membership by clicking on any of the links, and watch the players make history at this year's BMW Italian Open.