2017 Challenge Tour

The 2017 Challenge Tour was the 29th season of the Challenge Tour, the official development tour to the European Tour. The tour started as the Satellite Tour with its first Order of Merit rankings in 1989 and was officially renamed as the Challenge Tour at the start of the 1990 season.[1]

2017 Challenge Tour season
Duration23 March 2017 (2017-03-23) – 4 November 2017 (2017-11-04)
Number of official events27
Most wins3:
England Aaron Rai
Challenge Tour RankingsFinland Tapio Pulkkanen
← 2016
2018 →

Schedule

The following table lists official events during the 2017 season.[2]

DateTournamentHost countryPurse
(€)		Winner[lower-alpha 1]OWGR
points		Other
tours[lower-alpha 2]		Notes
26 MarBarclays Kenya OpenKenya220,000England Aaron Rai (1)12
23 AprTurkish Airlines ChallengeTurkey200,000England Ryan Evans (1)12
14 MayOpen de PortugalPortugal500,000England Matt Wallace (1)18EUR
21 MayAndalucía Costa del Sol Match Play 9Spain200,000England Aaron Rai (2)12New tournament
28 MayD+D Real Czech ChallengeCzech Republic180,000United States Julian Suri (1)12
4 JunSwiss ChallengeSwitzerland170,000Switzerland Joel Girrbach (1)12
11 JunKPMG TrophyBelgium170,000Austria Martin Wiegele (4)12
18 JunHauts de France Golf OpenFrance200,000France Julien Guerrier (1)12
25 JunMade in Denmark ChallengeDenmark180,000Sweden Oscar Stark (1)12
2 JulSSE Scottish Hydro ChallengeScotland250,000England Richard McEvoy (2)12
9 JulPrague Golf ChallengeCzech Republic180,000England Garrick Porteous (1)12New tournament
16 JulItalian Challenge OpenItaly300,000Sweden Joel Sjöholm (1)12
23 JulLe Vaudreuil Golf ChallengeFrance210,000England Aaron Rai (3)[lower-alpha 3]12
30 JulSwedish ChallengeSweden200,000Argentina Estanislao Goya (3)12
6 AugVierumäki Finnish ChallengeFinland180,000England Paul Howard (1)12
13 AugGalgorm Resort & Spa Northern Ireland OpenNorthern Ireland185,000France Robin Sciot-Siegrist (1)12
20 AugViking ChallengeNorway200,000France Clément Sordet (3)12
26 AugRolex TrophySwitzerland250,000Spain Pedro Oriol (1)12
3 SepCordon Golf OpenFrance210,000Iceland Birgir Hafþórsson (1)12
10 SepBridgestone ChallengeEngland180,000Sweden Oscar Lengdén (1)12
17 SepIrish ChallengeIreland180,000France Julien Guerrier (2)12
24 SepKazakhstan OpenKazakhstan450,000Finland Tapio Pulkkanen (1)13
1 OctChallenge de EspañaSpain200,000France Victor Perez (1)12
15 OctHainan OpenChinaUS$350,000South Africa Erik van Rooyen (1)13CHN
22 OctFoshan OpenChinaUS$500,000Wales Oliver Farr (2)13CHN
28 OctRas Al Khaimah Golf ChallengeUAEUS$350,000Sweden Jens Dantorp (2)13
4 NovNBO Golf Classic Grand FinalOman420,000France Clément Sordet (4)17Flagship event

Challenge Tour Rankings

For full rankings, see 2017 Challenge Tour graduates.

The rankings were titled as the Road to Oman and were based on prize money won during the season, calculated using a points-based system. The top 15 players on the tour earned status to play on the 2018 European Tour.

RankPlayerPoints
1Finland Tapio Pulkkanen210,799
2France Clément Sordet181,312
3South Africa Erik van Rooyen160,876
4England Aaron Rai139,435
5Sweden Marcus Kinhult139,419

See also

Notes
  1. The number in brackets after each winner's name is the number of Challenge Tour events they had won up to and including that tournament. This information is only shown for Challenge Tour members. It is rare for someone to accumulate many wins on the Challenge Tour as success at this level usually leads to promotion to the European Tour.
  2. CHN − China Tour; EUR − European Tour.
  3. Rai earned immediate promotion to the European Tour, as this was his third win of the season.

References
  1. "Tour History". PGA European Tour. Archived from the original on 22 July 2010. Retrieved 16 January 2013.
  2. "Challenge Tour Schedule 2017". PGA European Tour. Retrieved 10 October 2017.
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