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2005 Challenge Tour

Golf tour season

Field	Value
year	2005
tour	Challenge Tour
regular_season	–
no_of_events	30
most_wins	ARG Rafael Gómez (2)
USA Brad Sutterfield (2)
SCO Marc Warren (2)
SWE Fredrik Widmark (2)
honor1	Rankings
honoree1	SCO Marc Warren
prevseason	2004
nextseason	2006

USA Brad Sutterfield (2) SCO Marc Warren (2) SWE Fredrik Widmark (2) The 2005 Challenge Tour was the 17th season of the Challenge Tour, the official development tour to the European Tour.

Schedule

The following table lists official events during the 2005 season.

Date	Tournament	Host country	Purse
(€)	Winner	OWGR
points	Other
tours	Notes
28 Nov	Abierto Mexicano de Golf	Mexico	US$300,000	ARG Rafael Gómez (1)	6	TLA	New to Challenge Tour
5 Dec	Panasonic Panama Open	Panama	US$200,000	ENG Richard McEvoy (1)	6	TLA	New to Challenge Tour
12 Dec	TIM Peru Open	Peru	US$168,000	USA Brad Sutterfield (1)	6	TLA	New to Challenge Tour
13 Feb	American Express Costa Rica Open	Costa Rica	US$125,000	USA Kyle Dobbs (1)	6	TLA
20 Feb	Summit Panama Masters	Panama	US$125,000	USA Kevin Haefner (1)	6	TLA
27 Feb	Abierto Telefónica Moviles de Guatemala	Guatemala	US$125,000	ARG César Monasterio (1)	6	TLA
21 Mar	Tusker Kenya Open	Kenya	160,000	ARG Daniel Vancsik (3)	6
10 Apr	Madeira Island Open Caixa Geral de Depositos	Portugal	600,000	NLD Robert-Jan Derksen (1)	16	EUR
1 May	Peugeot Challenge R.C.G. El Prat	Spain	115,000	ESP Tomás Jesús Muñoz (1)	6
8 May	Firstplus Wales Challenge	Wales	125,000	FRA Olivier David (1)	6
15 May	Tessali-Metaponto Open di Puglia e Basilicata	Italy	120,000	ARG Rafael Gómez (2)	6
29 May	Riu Tikida Hotels Moroccan Classic	Morocco	130,000	SWE Fredrik Widmark (2)	6
12 Jun	Thomas Bjørn Open	Denmark	115,000	FIN Toni Karjalainen (1)	6		New tournament
19 Jun	Aa St Omer Open	France	400,000	SWE Joakim Bäckström (n/a)	16	EUR
26 Jun	Galeria Kaufhof Pokal Challenge	Germany	115,000	ENG Gareth Davies (2)	6
3 Jul	Open Mahou de Madrid	Spain	120,000	ENG Benn Barham (2)	6		New tournament
10 Jul	Open des Volcans – Challenge de France	France	120,000	FRA Ilya Goroneskoul (1)	6
16 Jul	Texbond Open	Italy	115,000	SWE Fredrik Widmark (3)	6
31 Jul	Ireland Ryder Cup Challenge	Ireland	130,000	SCO Marc Warren (1)	6		New tournament
14 Aug	Cadillac Russian Open	Russia	US$500,000	SWE Mikael Lundberg (2)	16	EUR
21 Aug	Rolex Trophy	Switzerland	165,000	SCO Marc Warren (2)	6
21 Aug	Skandia PGA Open	Sweden	SKr 1,000,000	SCO David Patrick (1)	6
27 Aug	Morson International Pro-Am Challenge	England	150,000	ARG Andrés Romero (1)	6
4 Sep	BA-CA Golf Open	Austria	150,000	NIR Michael Hoey (1)	6
11 Sep	Telia Challenge Waxholm	Sweden	SKr 1,000,000	NOR Morten Hagen (1)	6
18 Sep	Rotterdam International Open	Netherlands	115,000	SWE Per G. Nyman (2)	6		New tournament
25 Sep	Kazakhstan Open	Kazakhstan	250,000	IRL Stephen Browne (2)	6		New tournament
2 Oct	Open de Toulouse	France	115,000	USA Brad Sutterfield (2)	6
9 Oct	Abama Open de Canarias	Spain	450,000	ENG John Bickerton (2)	16	EUR	New tournament
22 Oct	Apulia San Domenico Grand Final	Italy	250,000	ESP Carl Suneson (5)	6		Tour Championship

Rankings

The rankings were based on prize money won during the season, calculated in Euros. The top 20 players on the rankings earned status to play on the 2006 European Tour.

Rank	Player	Prize money (€)
1	SCO Marc Warren	103,577
2	ESP Carl Suneson	103,129
3	SWE Fredrik Widmark	99,750
4	ENG Andrew Butterfield	94,335
5	ZAF Michael Kirk	90,620

Notes

References

"2005 Tournament schedule". European Tour.
"European Tour Results and Rankings". European Tour.
(19 March 2010). "Suneson Wins Grand Final as Warren is Crowned Challenge Tour Number One". European Tour.

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