Out of the Rough: KLM Open (2025)

As the DP World Tour is set to break in a week’s time for the U.S. Open, it will take to the Netherlands for this week’s 104th playing of the KLM Open.

This event dates back to 1912 as it was first known as the Dutch Open. It joined the European Tour schedule in 1972 and has been a staple ever since.

As many as 13 different courses have played host to this nomadic event. Hilversumsche Golf Club holds the title of hosting the event a record 30 times.

For the second straight season, The International in Amsterdam will play host. This will mark the third time that this course has hosted the KLM Open (2019, 2024 and 2025.)

KLM Dutch Airlines, the sponsor of this week’s event, has been one of the Tour’s most loyal supporters, serving as a title sponsor for the 28th time.

The Field

Guido Migliozzi claimed his fourth DP World Tour title a season ago, edging out Joe Dean and Marcus Kinhult in a playoff. 

Migliozzi will return this season in an effort to claim back-to-back KLM Open titles as both Dean and Kinhult look to better their placement from a season ago.

Joost Luiten, a two time winner of this event (2013 & 2016,) leads the Dutch contingent who hope to keep the KLM trophy in-house. 

He’ll be joined by the likes of Darius van Driel, Wil Besseling and Daan Huizing, among others who hope to become just the eighth Dutch golfer to claim victory here.

Other notable golfers teeing it up this week include Laurie Canter, John Parry, Eugenio Chacarra, Haotong Li, Danniel Hillier, Kristoffer Reitan and Keita Nakajima.

Other former winners of this event teeing it up this week include Pablo Larrazabal (2023) and Ross Fisher (2007.)

The Course

The International in Amsterdam, Netherlands will play host this week.

It plays as a par-70 at 6,915 yards and promises to test every aspect of a golfer’s game.

Designed by Ian Woosnam and opened in 2012, the course sits near the Schipol Airport. Some may argue, too close. Fitting though as KLM continues on as the tournament’s sponsor.

In 2014, The International hosted a tournament on the European Senior Tour and also hosted the KLM Dutch Open in 2019.

The International features plenty of water hazards and bunkers to test golfers off-the-tee. Water comes into play on ten holes and much of the sand comes greenside.

It too features several dog legs and a number of blind shots.

Many of the holes are also bordered by a plethora of mounds, which adds a sense of seclusion on each hole from the rest of the course.

The greens this week are both large, fast and well-contoured. The greens, due to their size, offer a large selection of potential pin positions throughout the week as well.

The 11th hole was a very easy par four during the 2019 playing of the KLM Dutch Open but has since been converted to a par-three.

In all, most of the golfer’s games will be tested this week. On top of the challenges the course has to offer, golfers too must deal with the noise of planes landing at the nearby Schipol Airport.

The Weather

As of the time of writing this, Thursday calls for a 35-percent chance of precipitation, Friday a 40-percent chance, Saturday a 25-percent chance and Sunday a 20-percent chance. At this point, winds will likely be a factor this week. Across all four days, winds are set for 15 miles-per-hour across Thursday and Friday and 16 miles-per-hour across the weekend. Temperatures are set at 63-degrees for both Thursday and Friday and 62-degrees across both days of the weekend. 

Key Stats

• Strokes Gained: Off the Tee (SG: OTT) / Driving Accuracy

• Greens in Regulation Percentage (GIR%)

• Strokes Gained: Approach (SG: APP)

• Strokes Gained: Tee to Green (SG: TTG)

• Strokes Gained: Putting (SG: PUTT)

• Scrambling

• Birdie or Better Percentage

Betting Card

Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen (+1800)

I know I played Neergaard-Petersen on shorter odds last week and he missed the cut. He’s too good of a golfer at this level to repeat what he did last week (famous last words.) He placed fourth at the Hainan Classic, tenth at the Volvo China Open and second at the Commercial Bank Qatar Masters. Earlier in the season he placed tenth at the Hero Dubai Desert Classic and eighth at the BMW Australian PGA Championship. On Tour he is currently fourth in GIR%, fifth in birdie or better percentage, ninth in SG: TTG, 13th in SG: OTT, 17th in SG: APP, 18th in driving accuracy, 30th in SG: PUTT and 40th in scrambling. He did play this event a season ago where he missed the cut. Once again, he’s far-and-away my overall favorite this week per my stats-based-model.

Eugenio Chacarra (+4000)

Chacarra is a star, there’s no way around that. Of golfers with at least six starts so far this season, only Shaun Norris has a better average finishing placement than Chacarra. He placed 27th last week at the Austrian Alpine Open presented by Salzburger Land, 31st at the Soudal Open, 11th at the Hainan Classic, fourth at the Volvo China Open, won the Hero Indian Open and placed 20th at the Magical Kenya Open. He is currently first on Tour in SG: APP, second in birdie-or-better percentage, eighth in SG: TTG, 28th in GIR%, 32nd in driving accuracy, 39th in SG: PUTT, 73rd in scrambling and 97th in SG: OTT. It’s so difficult to win twice in one season on this Tour but if anyone can do it, it’s Chacarra. 

Jayden Schaper (+4500)

Schaper was a guy I was heavy on to start this season. He has since fallen out of form with a series of missed cuts but bounced-back last week with a fifth place finish at the Austrian Alpine Open presented by Salzburger Land. He missed the cut at the Soudal Open but placed 24th at the Hainan Classic prior. Earlier this season he had a stretch of events where he placed fifth at the Commercial Bank Qatar Masters, fourth at the Magical Kenya Open, 16th at the Investec South African Open Championship and ninth at the Joburg Open. He is currently sixth on Tour in SG: TTG, seventh in GIR%, 11th in SG: APP, 23rd in scrambling, 29th in driving accuracy, 30th in SG: OTT, 34th in birdie-or-better percentage and 122nd in SG: PUTT. Putting has been the problem for Schaper, but he did gain 0.79 strokes-per-round last week, which is a promising sign. The young South African has what it takes to win at this level, it’s just a matter of time. 

John Parry (+7000)

The price on Parry seems a bit disrespectful in my opinion. He won the AfrAsia Mauritius Open earlier this season and was also the runner-up at both the Alfred Dunhill Championship and Magical Kenya Open. He most recently placed fourth at the Soudal Open, 33rd at the Hainan Classic, 29th at the Hero Indian Open and 36th at the Porsche Singapore Classic. He is currently fifth on Tour in SG: APP, seventh in SG: TTG, 17th in scrambling, 23rd in GIR%, 50th in birdie or better percentage, 69th in SG: PUTT, 74th in SG: OTT and 81st in driving accuracy. Again, it’s so difficult to win multiple events on this Tour in a season but Parry has been knocking on the door on more than one occasion.