2006 Challenge Tour graduates

This is a list of players who graduated from the Challenge Tour in 2006. The top 20 players on the Challenge Tour's money list in 2006 earned their European Tour card for 2007.

	2006 Challenge Tour		2007 European Tour
Player	Money list rank	Earnings (€)	Starts	Cuts made	Best finish	Money list rank	Earnings (€)
Mark Pilkington	1	119,152	33	13	T6	7002136000000000000♠136	175,085
Johan Axgren	2	105,699	29	12	T15	7002170000000000000♠170	118,696
Alexander Norén*	3	99,631	28	13	T3	7001630000000000000♠63	472,336
Martin Kaymer*	4	93,321	29	16	T2	7001410000000000000♠41	754,691
James Hepworth	5	84,236	30	11	T16	7002164000000000000♠164	136,173
Kyron Sullivan*	6	83,364	30	12	T12	7002131000000000000♠131	180,643
Rafael Echenique*	7	82,737	28	12	2	7002113000000000000♠113	227,069
Juan Parrón*	8	71,089	27	9	T13	7002183000000000000♠183	81,554
Sam Walker	9	69,853	31	12	T4	7001800000000000000♠80	341,293
Marcus Higley*	10	67,851	31	13	T2	7002151000000000000♠151	151,185
Shaun Webster	11	65,536	25	7	T18	7002204000000000000♠204	53,786
Gary Lockerbie*	12	64,073	30	13	T5	7002144000000000000♠144	162,709
Rafael Cabrera-Bello*	13	62,849	33	16	T18	7002134000000000000♠134	178,927
James Heath*	14	60,346	29	11	T4	7002152000000000000♠152	150,758
Gareth Davies*	15	60,189	25	9	T9	7002181000000000000♠181	86,887
Lee S. James	16	59,704	23	7	T10	7002202000000000000♠202	56,775
Jean-Baptiste Gonnet*	17	59,343	24	13	T2	7001900000000000000♠90	292,379
Álvaro Quirós*	18	57,278	13	7	Win	7002102000000000000♠102	259,350
Mads Vibe-Hastrup	19	52,485	24	15	Win	7001610000000000000♠61	482,549
Adrien Mörk*	20	52,136	18	4	T46	7002271000000000000♠271	12,020

* European Tour rookie in 2007
T = Tied
     The player retained his European Tour card for 2008 (finished inside the top 117).
     The player did not retain his European Tour Tour card for 2008, but retained conditional status (finished between 118-149).
     The player did not retain his European Tour card for 2008 (finished outside the top 149).

The players ranked 16th through 20th were placed below the Qualifying School graduates on the exemption list, and thus could improve their status by competing in Qualifying School. Álvaro Quirós improved his status in this way.

Winners on the European Tour in 2007

No.	Date	Player	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runners-up
1	10 Dec 2006	Álvaro Quirós	Alfred Dunhill Championship	−13 (74-66-68-67=275)	1 stroke	Charl Schwartzel
2	14 Oct	Mads Vibe-Hastrup	Open de Madrid Valle Romano	–16 (69-69-67-67=272)	3 strokes	Alejandro Cañizares

Runners-up on the European Tour in 2007

No.	Date	Player	Tournament	Winner	Winning score	Runner-up score
1	18 Mar	Rafael Echenique	TCL Classic	Chapchai Nirat	−22 (61-66-68-71=266)	–19 (64-69-68-68=269)
2	17 Jun	Marcus Higley	Open de Saint-Omer	Carl Suneson	−8 (67-70-70-69=276)	–5 (67-70-71-71=279)
3–4	14 May	Jean-Baptiste Gonnet	Scandinavian Masters	Mikko Ilonen	−6 (67-72-67-68=274)	–4 (67-70-71-68=276)
		Martin Kaymer				–4 (67-68-68-73=276)

See also

• 2006 European Tour Qualifying School graduates
• 2007 European Tour

External links

• Final ranking for 2006