2017 Challenge Tour graduates

This is a list of players who graduated from the Challenge Tour in 2017.^[1] The top 15 players on the Challenge Tour rankings in 2017 earned European Tour cards for 2018.

	2017 Challenge Tour		2018 European Tour
Player	Road to Oman rank	Points	Starts	Cuts made	Best finish	Money list rank	Earnings (€)
Tapio Pulkkanen*	1	210,799	28	14	T3	78	580,332
Clément Sordet*	2	181,312	27	13	T10	132	257,550
Erik van Rooyen*	3	160,876	25	18	2	38	1,178,064
Aaron Rai*	4	139,435	32	20	T5	58	777,642
Marcus Kinhult	5	139,419	27	20	3	49	966,558
Julien Guerrier	6	137,525	28	19	3	86	534,524
Oliver Farr	7	133,768	29	13	T7	145	222,025
Ryan Evans	8	126,676	29	17	T11	148	208,377
Chase Koepka*	9	123,570	28	10	T7	181	100,241
Pedro Oriol	10	105,108	26	12	T8	151	205,782
Jens Dantorp	11	104,737	30	17	T3	70	620,978
Steven Brown*	12	104,155	28	14	T2	97	404,685
Adrien Saddier	13	100,843	27	14	T7	117	312,632
Scott Fernández*	14	94,673	29	11	T7	160	181,159
Bradley Neil*	15	93,168	29	11	T21	190	87,638

* European Tour rookie in 2018
T = Tied
  The player retained his European Tour card for 2019 (finished inside the top 116).
  The player did not retain his European Tour card for 2019, but retained conditional status (finished between 117 and 155, inclusive).
  The player did not retain his European Tour card for 2019 (finished outside the top 155).

Rai earned promotion to the European Tour in July after his third Challenge Tour win of the season.

Runners-up on the European Tour in 2018

No.	Date	Player	Tournament	Winner	Winning score	Runner-up score
1	11 Dec 2017	Erik van Rooyen	Joburg Open	Shubhankar Sharma	−23 (69-61-65-69=264)	−20 (64-67-70-66=267)
2	2 Sep	Steven Brown lost in four-man playoff	Made in Denmark	Matt Wallace	−19 (68-68-66-67=269)	−19 (70-68-63-68=269)

See also

• 2017 European Tour Qualifying School graduates