Fontana

Past Austrian Open Champions at Fontana:

1997 - E Simsek
1998 - K Karissimi
1999 - J Ciola
2000 - Not Played
2001 - C Gane
2002 - M Brier
2003 - R Coles
2004 - M Brier
2005 - M Hoey
2006 - M Brier
2007 - R Green
2008 - J Milkha Singh
2009 - R Cabrera Bello

The earth certainly moved for the course designers especially given they had so much spare soil following the excavation of the lakes. Naturally this has been used to create artificial shaping but this has been achieved with the utmost taste.

Crisp and accurate iron play is the key to scoring well at Fontana because this is a target golf course and your approach shots need to fly long and high to avoid the watery and sandy hazards. See if you can emulate Markus Brier who carded a remarkable 65, 67, 66, and 68 in the four rounds of the 2006 Austria Open here at Fontana. Brier became the first Austrian golfer to win on The European Tour completing his personal love affair with the event, having won it twice before, when it was part of the Challenge Tour.

In the 2009 Austrian Open, Spaniard Rafael Cabrera Bello fired a European Tour record-equalling 60 to claim his maiden European Tour win at Fontana. Cabrera Bello had a 30-foot eagle putt on the final green to record the Tour's first-ever 59 but he narrowly missed. No doubt questions were asked as to whether the Fontana golf course was too easy for modern professionals because the Austrian Open was moved to the Diamond Country Club in 2010.

Carrick Design began construction of four new holes during the summer of 2017. The Master Plan for course improvements includes the development of four and a half new golf holes to allow for future residential development overlooking the golf course. The plan also calls for the rebuilding of all tees and bunkers and the re-grassing of all the greens, with the new layout increasing the championship yardage to 7,308 yards.