2011 Challenge Tour graduates

This is a list of players who graduated from the Challenge Tour in 2011. The top 20 players on the Challenge Tour's money list in 2011 earned their European Tour card for 2012.

	2011 Challenge Tour		2012 European Tour
Player	Money list rank	Earnings (€)	Starts	Cuts made	Best finish	Money list rank	Earnings (€)
Tommy Fleetwood*	1	148,913	31	16	T6	109	203,699
Andrea Pavan*	2	133,052	28	8	T14	158	93,884
Sam Little	3	130,798	28	8	T13	150	102,016
Ricardo Santos*	4	97,516	28	11	Win	90	264,174
Benjamin Hébert	5	91,293	28	8	T6	176	67,314
Daniel Denison*	6	86,898	26	7	T22	187	55,547
Federico Colombo	7	81,834	26	8	T18	157	95,749
Jamie Moul*	8	80,771	24	7	T35	200	37,581
Jorge Campillo*	9	80,041	26	11	T2	81	319,348
Matthew Baldwin*	10	76,972	26	16	T5	72	372,786
Édouard Dubois*	11	75,623	22	8	T18	173	68,856
Simon Thornton	12	74,712	18	8	T11	161	88,599
Julien Quesne	13	74,027	25	13	Win	63	420,722
Craig Lee	14	73,792	23	12	T7	115	193,334
Andrew Johnston*	15	70,987	20	10	T33	163	84,765
Sam Walker	16	67,584	11	5	T17	197	42,116
Charles-Édouard Russo*	17	67,192	9	2	T53	296	4,756
Pelle Edberg	18	66,282	11	4	T4	162	85,918
Chris Gane	19	64,488	8	2	T15	254	12,181
Alessandro Tadini	20	62,630	8	4	T22	225	21,044

* European Tour rookie in 2012
T = Tied
  The player retained his European Tour card for 2013 (finished inside the top 118).
  The player did not retain his European Tour Tour card for 2013, but retained conditional status (finished between 119 and 155).
  The player did not retain his European Tour card for 2013 (finished outside the top 155).

Hébert earned a direct promotion to the European Tour after his third win of 2011 in August; Little did the same in October.

Winners on the European Tour in 2012

No.	Date	Player	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner-up
1	18 Mar	Julien Quesne	Open de Andalucía Costa del Sol	−17 (68-72-67-64=271)	2 strokes	Matteo Manassero
2	13 May	Ricardo Santos	Madeira Islands Open	−22 (68-67-68-63=266)	4 strokes	Magnus A. Carlsson

Runners-up on the European Tour in 2012

No.	Date	Player	Tournament	Winner	Winning score	Runner-up score
1	19 Feb	Jorge Campillo	Avantha Masters	Jbe' Kruger	−14 (70-69-66-69=274)	−12 (72-71-66-67=276)

See also

• 2011 European Tour Qualifying School graduates

External links

• Final ranking for 2011