In this series, we've unearthed images from the RFEG's photographic archive, each one telling a beautiful golf story. The story of our golf. They are OUR CHAMPIONS.

📆 May 2, 2010.

⛳ Royal Golf Club of Seville.

He donned the red and white of his beloved football team to embrace glory. Álvaro Quirós made a reality of what Spanish golf had been chasing since Sergio García lifted the Spanish Open trophy in 2002: to claim victory in a major tournament that once again drew thousands of people to Seville in its beautiful springtime. What a week that was!

➡The Andalusian overcame Englishman James Morrison in a thrilling playoff, who could not beat a player touched by the wand of talent and with a respectful crowd who, with their applause, carried their golfer to victory at the Real Club de Golf de Sevilla.

➡The Spanish player, speaking to television cameras immediately after his victory, described it as "the best thing in my life, to have my name inscribed alongside Severiano Ballesteros's." The Spanish Open, a grand, prestigious, and important tournament, has always been a trophy everyone would want to have their name on, an honor achieved by Álvaro Quirós through hard work and skill.

The tiebreaker went in favor of the Spaniard when James Morrison, on his second shot, sent the ball into the water. Álvaro Quirós, surrounded by the support of everyone, only had to push the ball in to win, a seemingly simple outcome that nevertheless concealed a tremendous amount of effort over four days of intense competition.

➡It is worth remembering that in that 2010 edition of the Spanish Open, in which players such as Rafa Cabrera, Francesco Molinari, Alex Noren, Danny Willet or Colin Montgomerie took part, Alejandro Cañizares, third just one stroke behind Quirós and Morrison, was another of its great protagonists.