2011 Challenge Tour graduates

This is a list of players who graduated from the Challenge Tour in 2011. The top 20 players on the Challenge Tour's money list in 2011 earned their European Tour card for 2012.

2011 Challenge Tour 2012 European Tour
Player Money list
rank
Earnings (€) Starts Cuts
made
Best
finish
Money list
rank
Earnings (€)
England Tommy Fleetwood* 1 148,913 31 16 T6 109 203,699
Italy Andrea Pavan* 2 133,052 28 8 T14 158 93,884
England Sam Little 3 130,798 28 8 T13 150 102,016
Portugal Ricardo Santos* 4 97,516 28 11 Win 90 264,174
France Benjamin Hébert 5 91,293 28 8 T6 176 67,314
England Daniel Denison* 6 86,898 26 7 T22 187 55,547
Italy Federico Colombo 7 81,834 26 8 T18 157 95,749
England Jamie Moul* 8 80,771 24 7 T35 200 37,581
Spain Jorge Campillo* 9 80,041 26 11 T2 81 319,348
England Matthew Baldwin* 10 76,972 26 16 T5 72 372,786
France Édouard Dubois* 11 75,623 22 8 T18 173 68,856
Republic of Ireland Simon Thornton 12 74,712 18 8 T11 161 88,599
France Julien Quesne 13 74,027 25 13 Win 63 420,722
Scotland Craig Lee 14 73,792 23 12 T7 115 193,334
England Andrew Johnston* 15 70,987 20 10 T33 163 84,765
England Sam Walker 16 67,584 11 5 T17 197 42,116
France Charles-Édouard Russo* 17 67,192 9 2 T53 296 4,756
Sweden Pelle Edberg 18 66,282 11 4 T4 162 85,918
England Chris Gane 19 64,488 8 2 T15 254 12,181
Italy Alessandro Tadini 20 62,630 8 4 T22 225 21,044

* European Tour rookie in 2012
T = Tied
  The player retained his European Tour card for 2013 (finished inside the top 118).
  The player did not retain his European Tour Tour card for 2013, but retained conditional status (finished between 119-155).
  The player did not retain his European Tour card for 2013 (finished outside the top 155).

Hébert earned a direct promotion to the European Tour after his third win of 2011 in August; Little did the same in October.

Winners on the European Tour in 2012

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No. Date Player Tournament Winning score Margin of victory Runner-up
1 18 Mar France Julien Quesne Open de Andalucía Costa del Sol −17 (68-72-67-64=271) 2 strokes Italy Matteo Manassero
2 13 May Portugal Ricardo Santos Madeira Islands Open −22 (68-67-68-63=266) 4 strokes Sweden Magnus A. Carlsson

Runners-up on the European Tour in 2012

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No. Date Player Tournament Winner Winning score Runner-up score
1 19 Feb Spain Jorge Campillo Avantha Masters South Africa Jbe' Kruger −14 (70-69-66-69=274) −12 (72-71-66-67=276)

See also

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