2009 Challenge Tour graduates

This is a list of players who graduated from the Challenge Tour in 2009. The top 20 players on the Challenge Tour's money list in 2009 earned their European Tour card for 2010.

2009 Challenge Tour 2010 European Tour
Player Money list
rank
Earnings (€) Starts Cuts
made
Best
finish
Money list
rank
Earnings (€)
Italy Edoardo Molinari 1 242,980 28 24 Win (x2) 11 2,009,337
Portugal José-Filipe Lima 2 134,623 27 12 T17 161 83,604
Belgium Nicolas Colsaerts 3 128,590 25 16 T3 67 423,513
Wales Rhys Davies* 4 113,187 31 22 Win 18 1,218,636
Scotland Peter Whiteford 5 110,593 28 17 T2 86 334,271
England Andrew Butterfield 6 110,488 25 1 T54 296 4,960
England Gary Boyd* 7 104,952 27 16 T2 50 715,106
France Julien Quesne* 8 94,636 30 16 T16 156 93,303
England Richard McEvoy 9 92,919 28 13 T8 101 261,196
England Robert Coles 10 89,304 28 12 T4 107 233,214
England Peter Baker 11 74,243 21 7 T35 204 33,360
Spain Carlos Rodiles 12 73,898 21 6 T35 205 31,795
England Chris Gane 13 73,230 19 6 T6 178 57,367
England John Parry* 14 71,318 33 22 Win 51 706,108
Australia Andrew Tampion 15 65,416 23 3 T45 268 9,103
France Julien Guerrier* 16 64,741 21 12 T5 122 172,305
Scotland Andrew McArthur* 17 62,856 17 7 T29 198 39,235
England James Morrison* 18 61,370 27 12 Win 61 518,750
Wales Sion Bebb 19 61,231 19 11 T17 158 90,740
France François Calmels 20 58,920 8 2 T31 278 7,598

* European Tour rookie in 2010
T = Tied
  The player retained his European Tour card for 2011 (finished inside the top 117).
  The player did not retain his European Tour Tour card for 2011, but retained conditional status (finished between 118-150).
  The player did not retain his European Tour card for 2011 (finished outside the top 150).

Molinari won three Challenge Tour events in 2009. 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; Julien Guerrier improved his status in this way.