This is a list of golfers who have won three times in a Challenge Tour season since a policy was enacted to promote such players immediately to the European Tour. [1]
No. | Year | Player | Date of third win | Number of events | Results on European Tour after promotion | |||
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Events played | Best finish | Earnings (€) | Rank | |||||
1 | 2008 | Taco Remkes | 18 Oct | 24 | 0 | n/a | ||
2 | 2009 | Edoardo Molinari | 25 Oct | 18 | 0 | n/a | 59,595* | 200 |
3 | 2011 | Benjamin Hébert | 27 Aug | 13 | 6 | T6 | 57,229* | 195 |
4 | 2011 | Sam Little | 16 Oct | 17 | 2 | T15 | 34,320* | 217 |
5 | 2012 | Kristoffer Broberg | 25 Aug | 5 | 5 | T27 | 35,803* | 201 |
6 | 2013 | Brooks Koepka | 23 Jun | 10 | 9 | T7 | 217,762* | 113 |
7 | 2014 | Moritz Lampert | 3 Aug | 9 | 6 | T45 | 7,500 | 251 |
8 | 2014 | Benjamin Hébert (2) | 8 Nov | 20 | 0 | n/a | ||
9 | 2015 | Nacho Elvira | 22 Aug | 13 | 5 | Cut | 27,170* | 214 |
10 | 2016 | Bernd Ritthammer | 5 Nov | 20 | 0 | n/a | 36,753* | 201 |
11 | 2017 | Aaron Rai | 23 Jul | 9 | 7 | T8 | 194,271* | 142 |
12 | 2018 | Kim Koivu | 25 Aug | 13 | 5 | T7 | 57,104* | 201 |
*Includes earnings from one or more European Tour events played before promotion.
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