2015 Challenge Tour graduates

This is a list of players who graduated from the Challenge Tour in 2015. The top 15 players on the Challenge Tour's money list in 2015 earned European Tour cards for 2016.

2015 Challenge Tour 2016 European Tour
Player Money list
rank
Earnings (€) Starts Cuts
made
Best
finish
Money list
rank
Earnings (€)
Portugal Ricardo Gouveia* 1 251,952 26 18 T3 54 709,976
France Sébastien Gros* 2 178,645 26 11 4 102 263,325
Spain Borja Virto 3 150,466 30 12 T9 131 182,289
Spain Nacho Elvira 4 114,878 29 16 2 44 824,367
Denmark Joachim B. Hansen 5 113,135 27 8 T11 152 115,630
Sweden Björn Åkesson 6 104,539 27 7 T3 171 83,443
England Gary Boyd 7 96,290 23 8 T7 139 162,186
Wales Rhys Davies 8 94,832 28 9 T25 176 73,802
France Thomas Linard* 9 91,258 23 10 T5 125 210,580
Sweden Jens Fahrbring* 10 89,731 28 9 T12 156 104,763
Denmark Jeff Winther* 11 87,033 26 8 2 117 224,702
Scotland Andrew McArthur 12 82,545 21 5 T29 203 35,873
England Callum Shinkwin* 13 81,082 23 16 T8 83 399,367
South Africa Brandon Stone* 14 80,979 24 15 Win 50 722,606
Scotland Jamie McLeary 15 80,353 24 9 T7 166 88,509

* European Tour rookie in 2016
T = Tied
  The player retained his European Tour card for 2017 (finished inside the top 111).
  The player did not retain his European Tour card for 2017, but retained conditional status (finished between 112 and 148, inclusive).
  The player did not retain his European Tour card for 2017 (finished outside the top 148).

Elvira earned promotion to the European Tour after his third win of the season in August. Fahrbring and Winther regained their cards for 2017 through Q School.

Winners on the European Tour in 2016

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No. Date Player Tournament Winning score Margin of victory Runner-up
1 10 Jan   Brandon Stone BMW SA Open −14 (71-67-65-71=274) 2 strokes   Christiaan Bezuidenhout

Runners-up on the European Tour in 2016

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No. Date Player Tournament Winner Winning score Runner-up score
1 14 Feb   Jeff Winther Tshwane Open   Charl Schwartzel −16 (71-64-66-63=264) −8 (73-66-69-64=272)
2 25 Apr   Brandon Stone Shenzhen International   Lee Soo-min −16 (66-65-70-71=272) −14 (67-70-69-68=274)
3 8 May   Nacho Elvira
Lost in playoff
Trophée Hassan II   Wang Jeung-hun −5 (71-68-74-70=283) −5 (71-71-72-69=283)

See also

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