2005 Challenge Tour graduates

This is a list of players who graduated from the Challenge Tour in 2005. The top 20 players on the Challenge Tour's money list in 2005 earned their European Tour card for 2006.

2005 Challenge Tour 2006 European Tour
Player Money list
rank
Earnings (€) Starts Cuts
made
Best
finish
Money list
rank
Earnings (€)
Scotland Marc Warren* 1 103,577 28 12 Win 42 610,885
Spain Carl Suneson 2 103,129 26 11 9 135 147,013
Sweden Fredrik Widmark 3 99,750 27 13 T12 148 103,914
England Andrew Butterfield 4 94,335 30 18 T7 129 168,158
South Africa Michael Kirk* 5 90,620 24 5 T51 210 26,749
Sweden Steven Jeppesen 6 88,517 32 13 T8 103 223,796
England Benn Barham 7 86,259 29 12 T5 97 245,310
Northern Ireland Michael Hoey* 8 86,124 27 7 T21 187 50,414
Argentina Daniel Vancsik* 9 81,053 24 10 T16 144 120,812
England Richard McEvoy 10 80,047 28 10 T17 152 97,979
Argentina Rafael Gómez* 11 79,880 19 7 T22 173 71,876
Republic of Ireland David Higgins 12 77,259 27 16 T7 127 169,638
England Paul Dwyer* 13 73,479 25 6 T8 211 26,322
Argentina Andrés Romero* 14 71,221 21 9 T2 35 694,363
Paraguay Marco Ruiz* 15 69,845 22 8 T14 174 66,714
Argentina Ariel Cañete 16 66,087 20 10 T7 143 122,346
England Tom Whitehouse 17 63,344 24 15 T7 95 250,952
England Ross Fisher* 18 61,029 29 18 T3 66 370,275
Republic of Ireland Stephen Browne 19 59,916 22 7 T18 153 97,820
Finland Toni Karjalainen* 20 58,384 15 5 T20 203 32,246

* European Tour rookie in 2006
T = Tied
  The player retained his European Tour card for 2007 (finished inside the top 118).
  The player did not retain his European Tour card for 2007, but retained conditional status (finished between 119 and 150).
  The player did not retain his European Tour card for 2007 (finished outside the top 150).

The players ranked 16th through 20th were placed below the Qualifying School graduates on the exemption list, and thus could improve their status by competing in Qualifying School. Tom Whitehouse and Ross Fisher both improved their status in this way, with Whitehouse medalling at Q School.

Winners on the European Tour in 2006

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No. Date Player Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory
Runner-up
1 6 Aug   Marc Warren EnterCard Scandinavian Masters −10 (67-69-73-69=278) Playoff   Robert Karlsson

Runners-up on the European Tour in 2006

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No. Date Player Tournament Winner Winning score Runner-up score
1 16 Jul   Andrés Romero Barclays Scottish Open   Johan Edfors −13 (65-69-74-63=271) −11 (72-64-68-69=273)

See also

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