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2005 Challenge Tour Graduates
__NOTOC__ 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. * 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 119–150). 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 Runners-up on the European Tour in 2006 See also * 2005 European Tour Qualifying School graduates *2006 European Tour The 2006 European ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Challenge Tour
The Challenge Tour is the second-tier men's professional golf tour in Europe. It is operated by the PGA European Tour and, as with on the main European Tour and the European Senior Tour, some of the events are played outside Europe. History The tour was introduced in 1986 and was initially called the ''Satellite Tour''. The Order of Merit was introduced in 1989, with the top five players on it winning membership of the European Tour for the following season. The following year the tour was renamed the Challenge Tour. Up to 1993 the Challenge Tour rankings were based on each player's best several results, but since 1994 it has been a straightforward money list, with all results counting. Players who are successful on the Challenge Tour qualify for membership of the European Tour the following year. Twenty players earn direct promotion to the European Tour. Players finishing 21–45 may also gain qualification for occasional low-prize-money European Tour events, but can improve the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrés Romero
Andrés Fabián Romero (born 8 May 1981) is an Argentine professional golfer who plays on both the PGA Tour and European Tour. Career Romero was born in Tucumán. He won his European Tour card by finishing 14th on the Challenge Tour rankings in 2005. His rookie season included a tied for second finish at the Scottish Open and a tied for eighth finish in The Open Championship. Romero finished placed 35th on the Order of Merit. In the 2007 Open Championship, Romero placed third, behind Sergio García and Pádraig Harrington, making ten birdies on the last day of play. He briefly led the field by two strokes, but made a double bogey on the 17th hole and a bogey on the 18th to miss a play-off by one shot. The following week he won his first European Tour event at the Deutsche Bank Players Championship of Europe. Romero finished the season in the top ten of the Order of Merit, in seventh position. In July 2007, Romero broke into the top 100 of the Official World Golf Ranking for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 European Tour
The 2006 European Tour was the 35th golf season since the European Tour officially began in 1972. The season began with five events in late 2005 and consisted of 47 official money events, equalling the record set the previous year. This included the four major championships and three World Golf Championships, which are also sanctioned by the PGA Tour. 27 events took place in Europe, 12 in Asia, five in the United States, two in South Africa and one in Australia. Total prize money exceeded €117 million, including nearly €40 million in the major championships and WGC events. The Order of Merit race came down to the last few shots of the final tournament, and was won by Pádraig Harrington for the first time. He was the first Irishman to top the Order of Merit since the official beginning of the tour. The Player of the Year award was given to Order of Merit runner up Paul Casey of England and the Sir Henry Cotton Rookie of the Year was Marc Warren of Scotland. Major tournament ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2005 European Tour Qualifying School Graduates
__NOTOC__ This is a list of the 32 players who earned their 2006 European Tour card through Q School in 2005. 2006 European Tour rookie 2006 results * 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 119–150). The player did not retain his European Tour card for 2007 (finished outside the top 150). Winners on the European Tour in 2006 Runners-up on the European Tour in 2006 See also *2005 Challenge Tour graduates *2006 European Tour The 2006 European Tour was the 35th golf season since the European Tour officially began in 1972. The season began with five events in late 2005 and consisted of 47 official money events, equalling the record set the previous year. This included ... ReferencesFinal Results [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johan Edfors
Johan Edfors (born 10 October 1975) is a Swedish professional golfer who plays primarily on the European Tour. Early life and amateur career Edfors was born in Varberg. He attended the University of Texas at San Antonio on a Division I athletic scholarship for men's golf. He played for the team under the coaching of Barry Denton for two years. Professional career Edfors turned professional in 1997. He spent several years playing the second tier Challenge Tour, but failed to make the top hundred on the Order of Merit until 2003, when he won twice and topped the Challenge Tour Order of Merit. He narrowly failed to hold on to his tour card in 2004, but at the end of 2005 he regained it at the Final Qualifying School. In 2006, Edfors achieved a maiden European Tour win at the TCL Classic and quickly followed up by winning the more prestigious Quinn Direct British Masters and the Scottish Open. His three victories took him into the top 50 of the Official World Golf Rankings in July ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barclays Scottish Open
Barclays () is a British multinational universal bank, headquartered in London, England. Barclays operates as two divisions, Barclays UK and Barclays International, supported by a service company, Barclays Execution Services. Barclays traces its origins to the goldsmith banking business established in the City of London in 1690. James Barclay became a partner in the business in 1736. In 1896, twelve banks in London and the English provinces, including Goslings Bank, Backhouse's Bank and Gurney, Peckover and Company, united as a joint-stock bank under the name Barclays and Co. Over the following decades, Barclays expanded to become a nationwide bank. In 1967, Barclays deployed the world's first cash dispenser. Barclays has made numerous corporate acquisitions, including of London, Provincial and South Western Bank in 1918, British Linen Bank in 1919, Mercantile Credit in 1975, the Woolwich in 2000 and the North American operations of Lehman Brothers in 2008. Barclays has a pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Karlsson
Robert Karlsson (born 3 September 1969) is a Swedish professional golfer who has played on the European Tour and the PGA Tour, and now plays on the PGA Tour Champions. Early life Karlsson was born in Katrineholm, Sweden where his father Björn was a greenkeeper at the local golf club. His family lived close to the golf course, just next to the practice green, were Karlsson spent a lot of time. The green was later officially named "Robert's green", written on a plate on a stone nearby.Bakom kulisserna: När Challenge Tour kom till Katrineholm (in Swedish) ''svenskgolf.se'' 2016-11-24 Amateur career As an 19-year-old amateur in 1989, Karlsson became the sixth Swedish player to complete all four rounds in |
EnterCard Scandinavian Masters
The Scandinavian Masters is an annual golf tournament on the European Tour played in Sweden. In 2020 the tournament became co-sanctioned with the Ladies European Tour and rebranded as the Scandinavian Mixed, in which both male and female golfers compete. History The tournament had its origins in the Volvo Open and the Scandinavian Enterprise Open, which, in 1973, became the first Swedish stop on the European Tour schedule. In 1991, the SEO merged with the PLM Open, with the resultant tournament being called the Scandinavian Masters. The Scandinavian Masters was generally the only European Tour event to be held in Scandinavia, and in 2013 had a prize fund of , which was at the lower end of the scale for European Tour events held in the tour's home continent. Until 2011, the tournament was played at the end of July or the beginning of August each year. For 2012, it moved to the first weekend in June, and was played from Wednesday to Saturday to allow players more time to travel t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toni Karjalainen
Toni Karjalainen (born 9 July 1979) is a Finnish professional golfer who formerly played on the European Tour and the Challenge Tour. He was his country's highest ranked male golfer and one of only a few Finnish golfers playing on the leading professional tours when he won twice on the Challenge Tour in 2005 and 2006. Amateur career As an amateur, Karjalainen represented his country at the European Youths' Team Championship, the European Amateur Team Championship and twice at the Eisenhower Trophy. At the 2001 European Amateur Team Championship at Ljunghusen Golf Club in Sweden, team Finland finished a historical high forth (behind England, Ireland and Sweden) in the qualifying stroke-play competition and lost to champions to be Scotland in the quarter-finals. In June 2002, still an amateur, Karjalainen won the Messilä Trophy in Finland on the Nordic Golf League. Professional career Karjalainen earned his playing rights on the 2004 Nordic Golf League by finished second at the q ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Browne (golfer)
Stephen Browne (13951462–4) was a grocer, alderman of London, a Member of Parliament for London and Mayor of London. Career Browne is recorded a warden of the Grocers' company from 1425 to 1426 in London. He later held the office of master of the company on five separate occasions from 1432 during his lifetime. Browne was an elected alderman of London for 31 years between 1429 and 1460; he was sheriff of London from 1431 to 1432, and Mayor of London from 1438 to 1439, and again ten years later from 1448 to 1449. In these capacities Browne sat on trials and convictions of immorality. Browne also sat on London commissions from 1447 to 1452, and elector in 1449 (twice), 1450 and 1455. Browne was owner of land and rents in London and elsewhere worth £65 per annum. Also, King Henry V (died 1422) at one time owed Browne £400. Browne was a large corn-factor and interested in the cloth trade. In 1439 as grocer of London he had license to buy wheat in Yorkshire to ship to London ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ross Fisher
Ross Daniel Fisher (born 22 November 1980) is an English professional golfer who plays on the European Tour, where he has won five times, including the 2009 Volvo World Match Play Championship at Finca Cortesin Golf Club in Spain. Early life Fisher was born in Ascot, Berkshire. His home course is the famous Wentworth Golf Club, Surrey, England, the location of the European Tour administrative headquarters. As a child, he attended Charters School, a state comprehensive close to Wentworth. Professional career Fisher joined the European Tour in 2006. He earned his card by finishing 18th on the Challenge Tour's money list in 2005. During Fisher's first season on the European Tour he won a Jaguar for a nearest to the pin contest in the 2006 Quinn Direct British Masters. In 2007, Fisher won the KLM Open by one stroke over Joost Luiten, and subsequently finished the year ranked 43rd on the Order of Merit. Fisher started the 2008 season with a joint-second place in the HSBC Champion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Whitehouse
Tom Whitehouse (born 22 March 1980) is an English Professional golfer, professional golfer. Career Whitehouse was born in Birmingham and turned professional in 2002. He worked his way through the ranks, winning twice on the third tier PGA EuroPro Tour in 2003 as he led the Order of Merit to earn a place on the Challenge Tour for 2004. He won the Estoril Challenge Open Portugal Telecom that season and finished 24th on the end of season Challenge Tour Rankings. The following year he improved to 17th and at the end of season was medalist at European Tour Qualifying School Final Stage to earn his place at the top level. In his debit season on the European Tour, Whitehouse finished just inside the top 100 on the Order of Merit having has three top 10 finishes. The following season he had four top 10s but slipped to 100th on the Order of Merit. In 2008 he made just nine cuts and was back on the Challenge Tour in 2009. Amateur wins *2001 Spanish Amateur Open Championship Professional ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
