2015 Alps Tour

The 2015 Alps Tour was the 15th season of the Alps Tour, one of four third-tier tours recognised by the European Tour. In July, it was announced that all Alps Tour events, beginning with the Alps de Andalucía, would receive Official World Golf Ranking points at the minimum level of 4 points for a winner of a 54-hole event and 6 points for a winner of a 72-hole event.^[1]

Schedule

The season consisted of 20 events.^[2]

Date	Tournament	Location	Winner	OWGR	Prize fund (€)
20 Feb	Red Sea El Ein Bay Open	Egypt	Thomas Elissalde		30,000
26 Feb	Red Sea Little Venice Open	Egypt	Alexandre Widemann		30,000
4 Mar	Dreamland Pyramids Open	Egypt	Andrew Cooley		30,000
4 Apr	Alps de Las Castillas	Spain	Jesús Legarrea		48,000
3 May	Tunisian Golf Open	Tunisia	Josh Loughrey		70,000
10 May	Gosser Open	Austria	Harry Casey		40,000
16 May	Open Colli Berici	Italy	Enrico di Nitto		40,000
21 May	Open Frassanelle	Italy	Gerard Piris		40,000
31 May	Open de Saint François Region Guadeloupe	Guadeloupe	Andrea Maestroni		40,000
19 Jun	Open La Pinetina	Italy	Andrea Perrino		40,000
28 Jun	Open International de la Mirabelle d'Or	France	Harry Casey		45,000
3 Jul	Alps Tour Mont Garni	Belgium	Federico Maccario		40,000
17 Jul	Servizitalia Open	Italy	Matthieu Pavon		40,000
5 Sep	Alps de Andalucía	Spain	Borja Etchart	4	48,000
13 Sep	Citadelle Trophy International	France	Josh Loughrey	6	45,000
20 Sep	Open International du Haut Poitou	France	Pep Anglès	4	40,000
27 Sep	Open International du Marcilly	France	Darius van Driel	4	40,000
10 Oct	Alps de Extremadura	Spain	Pol Bech	4	40,000
18 Oct	Abruzzo Open	Italy	Luca Cianchetti (a)	4	40,000
25 Oct	Edmond de Rothschild Israel Masters	Israel	Jurrian van der Vaart	4	80,000

Graduates

The top five players (not otherwise exempt) on the Order of Merit earned Challenge Tour cards for 2016.^[3] Since the second-place and sixth-place finishers earned Challenge Tour status in a higher category by making the cut in the final stage of Q School, the seventh-place finisher received the fifth card.

Rank	Player	Country	Earnings (€)	Status earned
1	Darius van Driel	Netherlands	35,860	Promoted to Challenge Tour
2	Josh Loughrey	England	34,280	Qualified for Challenge Tour (made cut in Q School)
3	Damien Perrier	France	28,099	Promoted to Challenge Tour
4	Harry Casey	England	23,302
5	Jurrian van der Vaart	Netherlands	21,873
6	Matthieu Pavon	France	21,869	Qualified for Challenge Tour (made cut in Q School)
7	Andrea Maestroni	Italy	21,297	Promoted to Challenge Tour
8	Toni Ferrer	Spain	21,014
9	Tom Shadbolt	England	20,927
10	Gerard Piris	Spain	20,621

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