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2024 Challenge Tour Graduates
__NOTOC__ This is a list of players who graduated from the Challenge Tour in 2024. Both Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen and John Parry earned immediate promotion to the European Tour during the 2024 season by winning three times on the Challenge Tour. Neergaard-Petersen finished 105th on the Race to Dubai, obtaining a higher exemption category for the 2025 European Tour season than he had from his Challenge Tour ranking; Robin Williams Robin McLaurin Williams (July 21, 1951August 11, 2014) was an American actor and comedian known for his improvisational skills and the wide variety of characters he created on the spur of the moment and portrayed on film, in dramas and comedie ..., who finished 14th in the Challenge Tour rankings, similarly obtained a higher exemption category through his European Tour performance as a non-member. Because of this, Neergaard-Petersen and Williams did not count against the 20 Challenge Tour graduates, and the players who finished 21st and 22nd in the r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Challenge Tour
The Challenge Tour, currently titled as the HotelPlanner Tour for sponsorship reasons and also sometimes referred to as the European Challenge Tour, is the second-tier men's professional golf tour in Europe. It is operated by the PGA European Tour and similarly with the main European Tour and the European Senior Tour, some of the events are played outside Europe. History The tour was introduced in 1986, when the national tours of Sweden, France and Italy became open to foreign players, 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, a name already used in 1989. 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 quali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 Challenge Tour
The 2024 Challenge Tour was the 36th season of the Challenge Tour, the official development tour to the European Tour. Schedule The following table lists official events during the 2024 season. Rankings The rankings were titled as the Road to Mallorca and were based on tournament results during the season, calculated using a points-based system. The top 22 players on the rankings earned status to play on the 2025 European Tour (DP World Tour). Notes References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Challenge Tour, 2024 2024 The year saw the list of ongoing armed conflicts, continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Myanmar civil war (2021–present), Myanmar civil war, the Sudanese civil war (2023–present), Sudane ... 2024 in golf 2024 in European sport ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen
Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen (born 3 July 1999) is a Danish professional golfer. In 2024, he won three times on the Challenge Tour and topped the rankings. Amateur career Neergaard-Petersen had a successful amateur career and won the 2017 Danish Junior Championship, and the German International Amateur Championship back-to-back in 2018 and 2019. He was runner-up at the 2017 Duke of York Young Champions Trophy, and at the 2018 European Nations Cup – Copa Sotogrande. He lost the final of the 2020 Western Amateur to Pierceson Coody, 3 and 2, and was runner-up at the 2022 European Amateur. Representing the Danish National Team he won the 2017 European Boys' Team Championship at La Manga Club in Spain, and finished 3rd at the 2022 European Amateur Team Championship, beating England in the Bronze match at Royal St George's Golf Club. Neergaard-Petersen played college golf at Oklahoma State University 2018–2023 with the Oklahoma State Cowboys golf team, where he recorded two wins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Parry (golfer)
John Anthony Parry (born 17 November 1986) is an English professional golfer who plays on the European Tour, where he has won twice. Early life and career Parry was born in Harrogate. He won several high-profile amateur tournaments including the Danish and Spanish Amateur Championships, and represented Great Britain and Ireland in the Walker Cup before turning professional at the end of 2007. Parry won the 2009 Allianz Golf Open Grand Toulouse on the Challenge Tour. He ended that season in 14th place on the Challenge Tour Rankings to earn his card on the top level European Tour for 2010. During his rookie season he won the Vivendi Cup to secure a one-year exemption on the tour. Parry was unable to follow up his win and in 2021, he was playing on the third-tier PGA EuroPro Tour. He won the Cumberwell Park Championship in June 2021 and finished fifth on the Order of Merit, securing status to play on the 2022 Challenge Tour. In 2024, Parry won three times on the 2024 Challenge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
European Tour
The European Tour, currently titled as the DP World Tour for sponsorship reasons, and legally the PGA European Tour or the European Tour Group, is the leading men's professional golf tour in Europe. The organisation also operates the European Senior Tour (for players aged 50 or older) and the developmental Challenge Tour; the second tier of men's professional golf in Europe. The tour's headquarters are at Wentworth Club in Virginia Water, Surrey, England. The European Tour was established by the British-based Professional Golfers' Association through the 1970s, and responsibility was transferred to an independent PGA European Tour organisation in 1984. Most tournaments on the PGA European Tour's three tours are held in Europe, but starting in the 1980s an increasing number have been held in other parts of the world; in 2015 a majority of the ranking events on the European Tour were held outside Europe, though this included both Majors and World Golf Championship events that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Williams (golfer)
Robin Tiger Williams (born 16 September 2001) is an English-South African professional golfer who plays on the Sunshine Tour. Early life and amateur career Williams was born in Stellenbosch, South Africa and moved to the UK at the age of eight due to his father's work commitments. Robin moved to Peterborough in August 2010 where he joined the junior section of Peterborough Milton Golf Club in England. In 2023 he was made an Honorary Member of Peterborough Milton in recognition of his debut win on the Sunshine Tour and still returns to play and practice at the club when on breaks from tournament play. Robin represented England as an amateur at boys and mens level. He represented Europe in the Junior Ryder Cup in 2018; also meeting Tiger Woods, who his middle name is taken from. In October 2019, he won as an amateur on the MENA Tour in Jordan. In 2021, he finished runner-up in the St Andrews Links Trophy, losing in a playoff to Jack Cope. Professional career Williams turned pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 European Tour Qualifying School Graduates
The 2024 European Tour Qualifying School graduates were determined following the conclusion of the 2024 European Tour (DP World Tour) Qualifying School Final Stage which was played 8–14 November at Infinitum Golf in Tarragona, Spain. It was the 47th edition of the European Tour Qualifying School. The top 20 and ties (21 in total) earned status to play on the 2025 European Tour, with the remaining players who finished outside the top 20 and ties, but having made the 72-hole cut, earning status to play on the 2025 Challenge Tour. It was the first year in which the number of cards available at Q School had been reduced from 25 to 20 (including ties). Edoardo Molinari won the event, scoring a six-round total of 399 (29 under par) with play being extended by one day due to adverse weather conditions. During the tournament, Vince van Veen recorded a round of 59 in round three. Jean Bekirian also became the first player from Armenia to earn a European Tour card, with Ilirian Zal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 In Golf
2024 in sports describes the year's events in world sport. The main highlight for this year is the 2024 Summer Olympic Games and Paralympic Games in Paris. Calendar by month January February March April May June July August September October November * December Multi-sport events * January 11-21: 2024 World Winter Masters Games in Lombardy, Italy * January 19–February 1: 2024 Winter Youth Olympics in Gangwon, South Korea * February 2-18: : 2024 World Aquatics Championships in Doha, Qatar * February 21–March 3: 2024 Games of the Future in Kazan, Russia * March 02–12: 2024 Winter Deaflympics in Erzurum, Turkey * March 3-8: 2024 Winter Transplant Games in Bormio, Italy * March 8-23: 2023 African Games in Accra, Ghana * March 19–26: 2024 World Trisome Games in Antalya, Turkey * April 4-14: 2024 Bolivarian Youth Games in Sucre, Bolivia * June 12-23: 2024 BRICS Games in Kazan, Russia * June 16-23: 2024 World Medi Games in Saint-Tropez, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
