2017 Challenge Tour graduates


This is a list of players who graduated from the Challenge Tour in 2017.[1] The top 15 players on the Challenge Tour rankings in 2017 earned European Tour cards for 2018.

2017 Challenge Tour 2018 European Tour
Player Road to Oman
rank		 Points Starts Cuts
made		 Best
finish		 Money list
rank		 Earnings (€)
Finland Tapio Pulkkanen* 1 210,799 28 14 T3 78 580,332
France Clément Sordet* 2 181,312 27 13 T10 132 257,550
South Africa Erik van Rooyen* 3 160,876 25 18 2 38 1,178,064
England Aaron Rai* 4 139,435 32 20 T5 58 777,642
Sweden Marcus Kinhult 5 139,419 27 20 3 49 966,558
France Julien Guerrier 6 137,525 28 19 3 86 534,524
Wales Oliver Farr 7 133,768 29 13 T7 145 222,025
England Ryan Evans 8 126,676 29 17 T11 148 208,377
United States Chase Koepka* 9 123,570 28 10 T7 181 100,241
Spain Pedro Oriol 10 105,108 26 12 T8 151 205,782
Sweden Jens Dantorp 11 104,737 30 17 T3 70 620,978
England Steven Brown* 12 104,155 28 14 T2 97 404,685
France Adrien Saddier 13 100,843 27 14 T7 117 312,632
Spain Scott Fernández* 14 94,673 29 11 T7 160 181,159
Scotland Bradley Neil* 15 93,168 29 11 T21 190 87,638

* European Tour rookie in 2018
T = Tied
  The player retained his European Tour card for 2019 (finished inside the top 116).
  The player did not retain his European Tour card for 2019, but retained conditional status (finished between 117 and 155, inclusive).
  The player did not retain his European Tour card for 2019 (finished outside the top 155).

Rai earned promotion to the European Tour in July after his third Challenge Tour win of the season.

Runners-up on the European Tour in 2018

No. Date Player Tournament Winner Winning score Runner-up score
1 11 Dec 2017 South Africa Erik van Rooyen Joburg Open India Shubhankar Sharma −23 (69-61-65-69=264) −20 (64-67-70-66=267)
2 2 Sep England Steven Brown
lost in four-man playoff 		Made in Denmark England Matt Wallace −19 (68-68-66-67=269) −19 (70-68-63-68=269)

See also

References

  1. ^ "Challenge Tour rankings". Retrieved 4 November 2017.