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2007 Challenge Tour

Golf tour season

Field	Value
year	2007
tour	Challenge Tour
regular_season	–
no_of_events	32
most_wins	CHL Felipe Aguilar (2)
ENG Peter Baker (2)
ENG Robert Dinwiddie (2)
NED Joost Luiten (2)
ENG Ross McGowan (2)
ITA Edoardo Molinari (2)
ENG Iain Pyman (2)
SCO Peter Whiteford (2)
honor1	Rankings
honoree1	FRA Mike Lorenzo-Vera
prevseason	2006
nextseason	2008

ENG Peter Baker (2) ENG Robert Dinwiddie (2) NED Joost Luiten (2) ENG Ross McGowan (2) ITA Edoardo Molinari (2) ENG Iain Pyman (2) SCO Peter Whiteford (2) The 2007 Challenge Tour was the 19th season of the Challenge Tour, the official development tour to the European Tour.

Changes for 2007

Five new tournaments were added to the schedule, including the Club Colombia Masters, the Dutch Futures, the Open AGF-Allianz Côtes d'Armor Bretagne, the Doc Salbe PGA European Challenge in Germany and the Toscana Open Italian Federation Cup.

Schedule

The following table lists official events during the 2007 season.

Date	Tournament	Host country	Purse
(€)	Winner	OWGR
points	Other
tours	Notes
3 Dec	Abierto Visa de la República	Argentina	US$200,000	ARG Rafael Echenique (2)	12	ARG, TLA
10 Dec	Abierto Mexicano Corona	Mexico	US$310,000	PRY Fabrizio Zanotti (1)	12	TLA
4 Feb	Club Colombia Masters	Colombia	US$175,000	ITA Edoardo Molinari (1)	12	TLA	New tournament
11 Feb	Kai Fieberg Costa Rica Open	Costa Rica	US$175,000	ARG Miguel Rodríguez (1)	12	TLA
18 Feb	Abierto Telefónica de Guatemala	Guatemala	US$150,000	WAL Jamie Donaldson (3)	12	TLA
11 Mar	Tusker Kenya Open	Kenya	160,000	ITA Edoardo Molinari (2)	12
22 Apr	Tessali-Metaponto Open di Puglia e Basilicata	Italy	130,000	NIR Michael Hoey (2)	12
6 May	Moroccan Classic	Morocco	–	Removed	–
13 May	A.G.F. Allianz Golf Open de Toulouse	France	130,000	NLD Joost Luiten (1)	12
20 May	Telenet Trophy	Belgium	130,000	BEL Nicolas Vanhootegem (3)	12
27 May	Open Mahou de Madrid	Spain	130,000	ENG Ben Mason (1)	12
3 Jun	Oceânico Developments Pro-Am Challenge	England	100,000	ENG Ross McGowan (1)	12
10 Jun	Vodafone Challenge	Germany	130,000	NED Joost Luiten (2)	12
17 Jun	Open de Saint-Omer	France	500,000	ESP Carl Suneson (6)	18	EUR
24 Jun	Credit Suisse Challenge	Switzerland	140,000	ENG Peter Baker (1)	12
1 Jul	Estoril Challenge de Portugal	Portugal	130,000	ENG Ross McGowan (2)	12
8 Jul	AGF-Allianz Open des Volcans – Challenge de France	France	130,000	NZL Gareth Paddison (1)	12
22 Jul	MAN NÖ Open	Austria	130,000	DNK Anders Schmidt Hansen (1)	12
29 Jul	Firstplus Wales Challenge	Wales	130,000	IRL Colm Moriarty (1)	12
5 Aug	Challenge of Ireland	Ireland	150,000	SWE Magnus A. Carlsson (1)	12
12 Aug	Scottish Challenge	Scotland	200,000	ENG Robert Dinwiddie (1)	12
19 Aug	Rolex Trophy	Switzerland	210,000	ENG Robert Dinwiddie (2)	12
19 Aug	Lexus Open	Norway	130,000	AUT Martin Wiegele (1)	12
26 Aug	Postbank Challenge	Germany	140,000	CHI Felipe Aguilar (1)	12
2 Sep	ECCO Tour Championship	Denmark	130,000	ENG Iain Pyman (6)	12	NGL
9 Sep	Telia Challenge Waxholm	Sweden	SKr 1,175,000	ENG Iain Pyman (7)	12
16 Sep	OKI Mahou Challenge de España	Spain	130,000	CHL Felipe Aguilar (2)	12
23 Sep	Kazakhstan Open	Kazakhstan	330,000	SWE Leif Westerberg (2)	12
30 Sep	Dutch Futures	Netherlands	140,000	SCO Peter Whiteford (1)	12		New tournament
7 Oct	Open AGF-Allianz Côtes d'Armor Bretagne	France	140,000	ENG Peter Baker (2)	12		New to Challenge Tour
14 Oct	Doc Salbe PGA European Challenge	Germany	140,000	SCO Peter Whiteford (2)	12		New tournament
20 Oct	Toscana Open Italian Federation Cup	Italy	140,000	SWE Mikael Lundberg (3)	12		New tournament
27 Oct	Apulia San Domenico Grand Final	Italy	250,000	FRA Mike Lorenzo-Vera (1)	12		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 2008 European Tour.

Rank	Player	Prize money (€)
1	FRA Mike Lorenzo-Vera	128,927
2	ENG Ross McGowan	126,645
3	CHI Felipe Aguilar	120,409
4	WAL Jamie Donaldson	111,748
5	SWE Leif Westerberg	102,323

Notes

References

(19 March 2010). "Challenge Tour Resumes With Historic Visit to Colombia". European Tour.
"2007 Tournament schedule". European Tour.
"2007 Rankings". European Tour.
(19 March 2010). "Lorenzo-Vera crowned Challenge Tour King at Grand Final". European Tour.
(19 March 2010). "Challenge Tour set for a thrilling climax". European Tour.

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