The Hospitality
Who is responsible for the hospitality facilities?
Volvo Event Management offers Volvo guests the ideal environment to relax during an arduous day’s golf watching. On the terrace, in the lounge style bar or in the restaurant, they will receive the best attention and service to be found anywhere on the professional golf circuit.
Maneva Consulting offer privileged visitors the chance to dine in the President’s Suite, which has panoramic views of the 17th green and the 18th tee. The President’s Suite is among the world’s most exclusive sporting enclosures.
Marqués de Riscal has been a supporter of the Volvo Masters for some years, supplying some of their finest wines to sponsors and spectators throughout the end-of-season showpiece, and, whilst the masters of golf are playing their trade at Valderrama, the masters of wine making are preparing for their latest vintage.
The Supporters
What is it that draws spectators to the Volvo Masters?
Record crowds have continually flocked to Valderrama and the Volvo Masters in search of excellence in golf, and have rarely been disappointed; only the top 60 on the European Tour Order of Merit qualify to play and the roll of honour, the portfolio of past champions reads like a Who’s Who of golf.
Great players such as Nick Faldo, Colin Montgomerie, Bernhard Langer, Padraig Harrington, Darren Clarke, Ian Poulter, Fredrik Jacobson, Paul McGinley and local hero Miguel Angel Jiménez have all held the title.
The Trophy
Who designs the trophy for the winner?
Waterford Crystal design and supply the trophy, and have enjoyed a long and distinguished tradition of working with Volvo. The magnificent Volvo Masters crystal trophy was the first in a series of landmark trophies handcrafted by the iconic Irish glassmaker. Waterford Crystal is distinctive from most other makes in that it comprises 32% lead as opposed to the more usual 24%, which gives pieces such as the trophy such magnificent prismatic qualities of light refraction. No golfer in the history of the Volvo Masters has ever held aloft the famous Waterford Crystal two years in succession.
