2010 Challenge Tour

The 2010 Challenge Tour is a series of professional golf tournaments collectively known as the Challenge Tour.

The Challenge Tour is Europe's official developmental tour and is organised by the PGA European Tour. It was introduced in 1986 and was originally called the Satellite Tour, before being renamed with its present title in 1990.^[1]

Tournament schedule

The 2010 schedule is set out below.^[2] The numbers in brackets after winners' names show the player's total number of wins on the Challenge Tour including that event. It is rare for someone to accumulate many wins on the Challenge Tour because success at this level soon leads to promotion to the European Tour.

The 2010 season began in February with the Abierto Internacional de Golf II Copa Antioquia in Colombia, a new tournament to the Challenge Tour schedule. After further tournaments in Kenya and Turkey, the tour visited Europe for the first time in May for the Allianz Open Côtes d'Armor Bretagne, one of four events on the schedule that also formed part of the Allianz Golf Tour, the official tour organised by the French Golf Federation. The season concluded with the Apulia San Domenico Grand Final at the end of October.

Dates	Tournament	Host country	Winner	OWGR Points	Notes
18–21 Feb	Abierto Internacional de Golf II Copa Antioquia	Colombia	David Vanegas (1)	12	Co-sanctioned with the Tour de las Américas and Canadian Tour
25–28 Mar	Kenya Open	Kenya	Robert Dinwiddie (3)	12
29 Apr–2 May	Turkish Airlines Challenge	Turkey	Charlie Ford (1)	12
6–9 May	Allianz Open Côtes d'Armor Bretagne	France	Sam Walker (2)	12
20–23 May	Mugello Tuscany Open	Italy	Floris de Vries (1)	12
27–30 May	Telenet Trophy	Belgium	Lee Slattery (2)	12
3–6 Jun	Kärnten Golf Open	Austria	Martin Wiegele (2)	12
10–13 Jun	Scottish Hydro Challenge	Scotland	George Murray (1)	12
17–20 Jun	Moroccan Golf Classic	Morocco	Chris Baker (1)	12	Postponed from 22–25 Apr due to air travel issues.[3]
17–20 Jun	Saint-Omer Open	France	Martin Wiegele (3)	18	Also an official money event on the European Tour
24–27 Jun	Fred Olsen Challenge de España	Spain	Álvaro Velasco (1)	12
1–4 Jul	The Princess	Sweden	Thorbjørn Olesen (1)	12
8–11 Jul	Allianz Golf Open de Lyon	France	Bernd Wiesberger (1)	12
15–18 Jul	Credit Suisse Challenge	Switzerland	Alessandro Tadini (3)	12
22–25 Jul	English Challenge	England	Daniel Gaunt (1)	12
29 Jul–1 Aug	Green Challenge	Finland	n/a	n/a	Tournament cancelled due to withdrawal of sponsor.[4]
11–14 Aug	Rolex Trophy	Switzerland	Mark Tullo (1)	12	Limited field Pro-Am
19–22 Aug	ECCO Tour Championship	Germany	Andreas Hartø (amateur) (n/a)	12
25–28 Aug	SWALEC Wales Challenge	Wales	Oscar Florén (1)	12
2–5 Sep	Allianz EurOpen Strasbourg	France	Romain Wattel (amateur) (n/a)	12
9–12 Sep	Kazakhstan Open	Kazakhstan	Álvaro Velasco (2)	12
16–19 Sep	M2M Russian Challenge Cup	Russia	Carlos del Moral (2)	12	New tournament
7–10 Oct	Allianz Golf Open du Grand Toulouse	France	Bernd Wiesberger (2)	12
13–16 Oct	Roma Golf Open	Italy	Andreas Hartø (2)	12
20–23 Oct	Egyptian Open	Egypt	Mark Tullo (2)	14
27–30 Oct	Apulia San Domenico Grand Final	Italy	Matt Haines (1)	16

Rankings

For full rankings, see 2010 Challenge Tour graduates.

Rank	Player	Country	Prize money (€)
1	Álvaro Velasco	Spain	134,297
2	Matt Haines	England	107,152
3	Thorbjørn Olesen	Denmark	104,754
4	Floris de Vries	Netherlands	101,288
5	Bernd Wiesberger	Austria	99,989

See also

• 2010 European Tour

References

1. "Tour History". PGA European Tour. Retrieved 2010-01-31.
2. "Challenge Tour Schedule 2010". PGA European Tour. Retrieved 2010-01-31.
3. Callow, James (19 April 2010). "Volcanic ash cloud causes widespread disruption to sporting calendar". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 22 April 2010. Retrieved 2010-04-29.
4. "Green Challenge removed from Challenge Tour schedule". PGA European Tour. 23 April 2010. Retrieved 2010-07-04.

External links

• Schedule on the European Tour's official site
• Rankings on the European Tour's official site