2007 Challenge Tour

The 2007 Challenge Tour was the 19th season of the Challenge Tour, the official development tour to the European Tour.

2007 Challenge Tour season

Duration	30 November 2006 (2006-11-30) – 27 October 2007 (2007-10-27)
Number of official events	32[a]
Most wins	Felipe Aguilar (2) Peter Baker (2) Robert Dinwiddie (2) Joost Luiten (2) Ross McGowan (2) Edoardo Molinari (2) Iain Pyman (2) Peter Whiteford (2)
Rankings	Mike Lorenzo-Vera
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Changes for 2007

Five new tournaments were added to the schedule, including the Club Colombia Masters,^[1] the Dutch Futures, the Open AGF-Allianz Côtes d'Armor Bretagne, the Doc Salbe PGA European Challenge in Germany and the Toscana Open Italian Federation Cup.

Schedule

The following table lists official events during the 2007 season.^[2]

Date	Tournament	Host country	Purse (€)	Winner[b]	OWGR points	Other tours[c]	Notes
3 Dec	Abierto Visa de la República	Argentina	US$200,000	Rafael Echenique (2)	12	ARG, TLA
10 Dec	Abierto Mexicano Corona	Mexico	US$310,000	Fabrizio Zanotti (1)	12	TLA
4 Feb	Club Colombia Masters	Colombia	US$175,000	Edoardo Molinari (1)	12	TLA	New tournament
11 Feb	Kai Fieberg Costa Rica Open	Costa Rica	US$175,000	Miguel Rodríguez (1)	12	TLA
18 Feb	Abierto Telefónica de Guatemala	Guatemala	US$150,000	Jamie Donaldson (3)	12	TLA
11 Mar	Tusker Kenya Open	Kenya	160,000	Edoardo Molinari (2)	12
22 Apr	Tessali-Metaponto Open di Puglia e Basilicata	Italy	130,000	Michael Hoey (2)	12
6 May	Moroccan Classic	Morocco	–	Removed	–
13 May	A.G.F. Allianz Golf Open de Toulouse	France	130,000	Joost Luiten (1)	12
20 May	Telenet Trophy	Belgium	130,000	Nicolas Vanhootegem (3)	12
27 May	Open Mahou de Madrid	Spain	130,000	Ben Mason (1)	12
3 Jun	Oceânico Developments Pro-Am Challenge	England	100,000	Ross McGowan (1)	12
10 Jun	Vodafone Challenge	Germany	130,000	Joost Luiten (2)	12
17 Jun	Open de Saint-Omer	France	500,000	Carl Suneson (6)	18	EUR
24 Jun	Credit Suisse Challenge	Switzerland	140,000	Peter Baker (1)	12
1 Jul	Estoril Challenge de Portugal	Portugal	130,000	Ross McGowan (2)	12
8 Jul	AGF-Allianz Open des Volcans – Challenge de France	France	130,000	Gareth Paddison (1)	12
22 Jul	MAN NÖ Open	Austria	130,000	Anders Schmidt Hansen (1)	12
29 Jul	Firstplus Wales Challenge	Wales	130,000	Colm Moriarty (1)	12
5 Aug	Challenge of Ireland	Ireland	150,000	Magnus A. Carlsson (1)	12
12 Aug	Scottish Challenge	Scotland	200,000	Robert Dinwiddie (1)	12
19 Aug	Rolex Trophy	Switzerland	210,000	Robert Dinwiddie (2)	12
19 Aug	Lexus Open	Norway	130,000	Martin Wiegele (1)	12
26 Aug	Postbank Challenge	Germany	140,000	Felipe Aguilar (1)	12
2 Sep	ECCO Tour Championship	Denmark	130,000	Iain Pyman (6)	12	NGL
9 Sep	Telia Challenge Waxholm	Sweden	SKr 1,175,000	Iain Pyman (7)	12
16 Sep	OKI Mahou Challenge de España	Spain	130,000	Felipe Aguilar (2)	12
23 Sep	Kazakhstan Open	Kazakhstan	330,000	Leif Westerberg (2)	12
30 Sep	Dutch Futures	Netherlands	140,000	Peter Whiteford (1)	12		New tournament
7 Oct	Open AGF-Allianz Côtes d'Armor Bretagne	France	140,000	Peter Baker (2)	12		New to Challenge Tour
14 Oct	Doc Salbe PGA European Challenge	Germany	140,000	Peter Whiteford (2)	12		New tournament
20 Oct	Toscana Open Italian Federation Cup	Italy	140,000	Mikael Lundberg (3)	12		New tournament
27 Oct	Apulia San Domenico Grand Final	Italy	250,000	Mike Lorenzo-Vera (1)	12		Tour Championship

Rankings

For full rankings, see 2007 Challenge Tour graduates.

The rankings were based on prize money won during the season, calculated in Euros.^[3][4] The top 20 players on the rankings earned status to play on the 2008 European Tour.^[5]

Rank	Player	Prize money (€)
1	Mike Lorenzo-Vera	128,927
2	Ross McGowan	126,645
3	Felipe Aguilar	120,409
4	Jamie Donaldson	111,748
5	Leif Westerberg	102,323

Notes

1. One further tournament was scheduled but was removed from the schedule.
2. The number in brackets after each winner's name is the number of Challenge Tour events they had won up to and including that tournament. This information is only shown for Challenge Tour members. It is rare for someone to accumulate many wins on the Challenge Tour as success at this level usually leads to promotion to the European Tour.
3. ARG − PGA of Argentina Tour; EUR − European Tour; NGL − Nordic Golf League; TLA − Tour de las Américas.