Grand Final 2026 preview
Tapio Pulkkanen will be looking to become the first player to win the Road to Mallorca Rankings twice when he tees it up at this week’s Grand Final at at Club de Golf Alcanada.
The Grand Final 2026 is the 28th and final event on the HotelPlanner Tour’s Road to Mallorca schedule, with the 45-man field in Alcúdia competing for one of 15 DP World Tour cards on offer.
Pulkkanen, all-but assured of promotion to Golf’s Global Tour, will etch his name into the history books should he top the season-long Rankings following the Grand Final, having previously ended the 2017 campaign at the summit.
The 36-year-old vaulted into the promotion places following the second HotelPlanner Tour victory of his career at the Danish Golf Challenge in May and has remained their ever since, with two top five finishes, most recently in China, cementing the Finn’s promotion aspirations.
Pulkkanen sits fifth on the Road to Mallorca and will make HotelPlanner Tour history with a win, providing current Number One Hamish Brown finishes no higher than third place.
Three-time HotelPlanner Tour winner Brown won last time out at the Hangzhou Open to hit the summit of the Road to Mallorca Rankings for the first time this season. Brown, who earned promotion to the DP World Tour in 2024, is looking to become the fifth Dane to top the season-long race and second to win the Grand Final-Rankings double after Marcus Helligkilde achieved the feat in 2021.
Joseba Torres arrives in Mallorca sitting in 23rd position on the Rankings and looking to cap a fine end to the campaign. The Spaniard was on the outside looking in before the Abu Dhabi Challenge last month but has vaulted up the Rankings since, with a top 20 in the UAE prolonging his season before a second place at the Hainan Open assured his Grand Final berth.
Torres, who has uncle José María Olazábal coaching him this week, requires a runner-up finish to confirm promotion. A sixth place at Club de Golf Alcanada could be enough for the 24-year-old, providing other results fall his way.
Any player can mathmatically graduate this week, including American Alex Goff, who holds the 45th and final position in the field. Goff is teeing it up at Club de Golf Alcanada for the first time and requires a victory to be assured of a position on Golf’s Global Tour for the 2027 season.
The 31st edition of the Grand Final takes place at Club de Golf Alcanada for a sixth time and will be broadcast live around the world for the fifth consecutive year.
The season finale gets under way at 9:02am local time on Thursday, with Brown teeing off in the final group alongside Swede Christofer Blomstrand and Dutchman Lars van der Vight.
Player quotes
Tapio Pulkkanen: It’s been a nice season overall. I had a good start in South Africa where I had a chance to win in my first start in Cape Town. Of course the win in Denmark is the highlight so far and of course the last couple of weeks in Abu Dhabi and China went really well.
I was here two years ago and around the bubble to earn promotion and there was a lot of pressure during that week. Right now I don’t feel any pressure at all so I can go for it. I feel relaxed but we’ll see. If I play well and get into those situations I know I’ve been there and done it before.
I have the chance to become a two-time Rankings winner so that’s the goal for this week, it’s as simple as that. I think I will need to win or finish in solo second to have a chance. There’s not too much pressure and I feel comfortable going out there trying to win.
Hamish Brown: It would be nice to top the Rankings, but I cannot control whether I stay there or not. It’s a different week and the last one of the year. You have to approach this with a free mind and see where it takes me. Seeing Marco [Penge] in 2023 and Rasmus [Neergaard-Petersen] do it the same year as myself so I wouldn’t mind copying them.
It’s a good golf course and it can get tricky with the wind, but I don’t think we’re going to see that too much this week. It’s a tale of two nines with the front nine a bit trickier and the back nine being open so it’s going to provide a good test.
I’m going to try and copy what I did in China. I can get angry sometimes which I’m trying to work on. We have all the pressure and stress of trying to get to the next level and play good golf, but I’ve got to try and take it easier and make sure I don’t get too flustered.
Joseba Torres: The last couple of months have been amazing. I haven’t changed too much but all of a sudden everything has been going well. I started with a new caddie in England where I finished fourth then in Portugal, I finished tenth with my uncle on the bag. Abu Dhabi was the most difficult one where I knew I needed to play well and finished in 16th which got me into China. I went there with no pressure on myself, and I played well and now I find myself here.
It’s a good track here. The greens are fast and slopy which will test my short game this week. It’s amazing to have him [José María Olazábal] around this week, not only on the bag but with all the experience and information he brings with every shot I hit.
I’m trying to put the permutations to the back of mind. I know I must finish top five to get my DP World Tour card which will be a dream. In some way it’s similar to China, I don’t have much to lose so I’m going to try and go full throttle.
Alex Goff: It means a lot to make it into the field this week during my first year on tour. There’s been a lot of ups and downs, but it’s been a good year and I’ve been to a lot of amazing places and met a lot of good people. It’s pretty cool to end the season here and have a lot of good opportunities in front of me.
Before this year I had not travelled a lot for golf so it’s nice to know that my game can travel and I can play well in other places. These last few weeks have been a lot, I’ve gone pretty much the whole way across the world. Going from America to the UAE then China and then back to America for Q School. It’s definitely a first for me but it’s amazing and I wouldn’t get to go to these places if it wasn’t for golf. It’s been a special year.
I have nothing to lose this week. I can go out there and play pretty freely which is nice. There’s not a lot of pressure and I’m just happy to be here so we’ll see what happens on Sunday. It would be amazing [to get promoted]. It’s what we’re all playing for and it’s a big goal of mine from the very start of the year.
Grand Final 2026
Venue: Club de Golf Alcanada, Port d’Alcúdia, Mallorca, Spain
Prize Fund: €500,000
Road to Mallorca points: 4,000 (640)
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