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2008 Challenge Tour graduates

NOTOC This is a list of players who graduated from the Challenge Tour in 2008. The top 20 players on the Challenge Tour's money list in 2008 earned their European Tour card for 2009.

2008 Challenge Tour	2009 European Tour	Player	Money list
rank	Earnings (€)	Starts	Cuts
made	Best
finish	Money list
rank	Earnings (€)
ENG David Horsey*	1	144,118	26	19	76	424,666
ENG Gary Lockerbie	2	138,509	29	18	108	289,461
NLD Taco Remkes*	3	137,331	30	8	195	66,178
NIR Gareth Maybin*	4	117,719	27	21	53	625,876
ARG Estanislao Goya*	5	113,336	25	15	94	338,939
ENG Seve Benson*	6	111,529	28	13	120	250,786
ITA Alessandro Tadini	7	106,893	29	17	126	232,759
SCO Richie Ramsay*	8	106,656	29	14	97	331,171
SCO Steven O'Hara	9	103,212	24	12	151	154,198
DNK Jeppe Huldahl	10	96,818	28	14	64	510,381
SWE Klas Eriksson	11	98,514	24	13	142	186,980
BRA Alexandre Rocha	12	93,684	19	9	211	47,935
ENG Richard Bland	13	92,645	25	14	112	277,462
ESP Rafa Cabrera-Bello	14	89,847	32	20	39	744,297
NLD Wil Besseling*	15	89,358	23	12	182	87,095
ENG Marcus Higley	16	85,946	17	9	171	96,626
ENG John E. Morgan	17	77,254	16	7	182	82,889
SWE Christian Nilsson	18	75,200	15	8	90	343,763
FIN Antti Ahokas*	19	74,867	12	4	275	10,631
ENG Stuart Davis*	20	67,105	14	4	208	50,375

European Tour rookie in 2009

T = Tied

The player retained his European Tour card for 2010 (finished inside the top 120).

The player did not retain his European Tour Tour card for 2010, but retained conditional status (finished between 121-153).

The player did not retain his European Tour card for 2010 (finished outside the top 153).

Remkes won three Challenge Tour events in 2008.

Winners on the European Tour in 2009

No.	Date	Player	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner-up
1	22 Mar	ARG Estanislao Goya	Madeira Islands Open BPI - Portugal	−6 (68-68-69-73=278)	1 stroke	SCO Callum Macaulay
2	7 Jun	DEN Jeppe Huldahl	Celtic Manor Wales Open	−9 (69-71-68-67=275)	1 stroke	SWE Niclas Fasth
3	21 Jun	SWE Christian Nilsson	Saint-Omer Open	−13 (68-69-65-69=271)	6 strokes	POR José-Filipe Lima
4	20 Sep	ESP Rafa Cabrera-Bello	Austrian Golf Open	−20 (71-67-66-60=264)	1 stroke	ENG Benn Barham

Runners-up on the European Tour in 2009

No.	Date	Player	Tournament	Winner	Winning score	Runner-up score
1	21 Dec 2008	NIR Gareth Maybin
lost in playoff	South African Open Championship	ZAF Richard Sterne	−14 (72-69-67-66=274)	−14 (66-69-69-70=274)
2	15 Feb 2009	ENG David Horsey	Maybank Malaysian Open	USA Anthony Kang	−17 (74-66-64-67=271)	−16 (71-68-69-64=272)
3	25 Oct	SWE Christian Nilsson	Castelló Masters Costa Azahar	SWE Michael Jonzon	−20 (64-68-65-67=264)	−19 (69-66-65-65=265)

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