Tournament Schedule
The table below shows the 2009 Challenge Tour schedule. The season started in March and was made up of 24 tournaments played in Europe, Latin America, Africa and Central Asia.
The numbers in brackets after winners' names indicate the player's total number of wins on the Challenge Tour including that event. No-one accumulates many wins on the Challenge Tour because success at this level soon leads to promotion to the European Tour.
| Dates | Tournament | Host country | Winner | OWGR Points |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19–22 Mar | Club Colombia Masters | Colombia | Alan Wagner (1) | 12 | Co-sanctioned with the Tour de las Americas |
| 16–19 Apr | Tusker Kenya Open | Kenya | Gary Boyd (1) | 12 | |
| 30 Apr–3 May | Moroccan Classic by Banque Populaire | Morocco | Robert Coles (2) | 12 | |
| 14–17 May | Allianz Open Côtes d'Armor Bretagne | France | Lee S. James (5) | 12 | |
| 21–24 May | Piemonte Open | Italy | Edoardo Molinari (3) | 12 | |
| 28–31 May | Telenet Trophy | Belgium | François Calmels (1) | 12 | |
| 4–7 Jun | Kärnten Golf Open | Austria | Christoph Günther (1) | 12 | New tournament |
| 11–14 Jun | Challenge of Ireland | Ireland | Robert Coles (3) | 12 | |
| 18–21 Jun | Saint-Omer Open | France | Christian Nilsson (1) | 18 | Dual-ranking event with the European Tour |
| 25–28 Jun | The Princess | Sweden | Andrew Butterfield (1) | 12 | New tournament |
| 2–5 Jul | Credit Suisse Challenge | Switzerland | Peter Baker (3) | 12 | |
| 9–12 Jul | Allianz EurOpen de Lyon | France | Alexandre Kaleka (1) | 12 | |
| 23–26 Jul | SWALEC Wales Challenge | Wales | Rhys Davies (1) | 12 | |
| 30 Jul–2 Aug | Scottish Hydro Challenge | Scotland | Jamie McLeary (1) | 12 | |
| 6–9 Aug | SK Golf Challenge | Finland | Nicolas Colsaerts (1) | 12 | |
| 13–16 Aug | Trophée du Golf de Genève | Switzerland | Julien Quesne (1) | 12 | Limited field Pro-Am |
| 27–30 Aug | DHL Wroclaw Challenge | Poland | Eric Ramsay (1) | 12 | |
| 3–6 Sep | Fred Olsen Challenge de España | Spain | Rhys Davies (2) | 12 | |
| 10–13 Sep | Dutch Futures | Netherlands | Nicolas Colsaerts (2) | 12 | |
| 17–20 Sep | Kazakhstan Open | Kazakhstan | Edoardo Molinari (4) | 12 | |
| 1–4 Oct | ECCO Tour Championship | Denmark | José-Filipe Lima (3) | 12 | |
| 8–11 Oct | Allianz Open du Grand Toulouse | France | John Parry (1) | 12 | |
| 22–25 Oct | Italian Federation Cup | Italy | Edoardo Molinari (5) | 12 | |
| 28–31 Oct | Apulia San Domenico Grand Final | Italy | Peter Whiteford (3) | 12 |
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