2009 Alps Tour Golf tour season
The 2009 Alps Tour was the ninth season of the Alps Tour , a third-tier golf tour recognised by the European Tour .
Schedule
The following table lists official events during the 2009 season.[ 1]
Date Tournament Host country Purse (€ ) Winner[ a]
14 Mar Peugeot Loewe Tour Escorpión Spain 48,000 José Manuel Lara (1)
27 Mar Grande Finale Attijariwafabank Morocco 40,000 Édouard Dubois (1)
18 Apr Peugeot Loewe Tour La Llorea Spain 48,000 Pedro Linhart (1)
27 Apr Open di Puglia e Basilicata Italy 45,000 Paolo Terreni (1)
3 May Gösser Open Austria 40,000 Claudio Blaesi (1)
10 May Lyoness Open Austria 60,000 Uli Weinhandl (1)
17 May Slovenian Golf Open Slovenia 40,000 Marco Crespi (2)
24 May Open de Bordeaux France 45,000 Alexandre Mandonnet (2)
30 May Masters 26 Dijon-Bourgogne France 45,000 Baptiste Chapellan (1)
7 Jun Open du Haut Poitou France 40,000 Julien Xanthopoulos (2)
13 Jun Peugeot Loewe Tour Laukariz Spain 48,000 Andrea Perrino (1)
19 Jun Open Le Fonti Italy 50,000 Daniel Coughlan (1)
28 Jun Allianz Open de Strasbourg France 50,000 Andrea Perrino (2)
11 Jul Peugeot Loewe Tour Madrid Spain 48,000 Xavier Guzmán (1)
18 Jul Circolo Rapallo Golf Open Italy 50,000 Joost Luiten (1)
25 Jul Uniqa FinanceLife Open Austria 45,000 Paolo Terreni (2)
9 Aug Omnium of Belgium Belgium 45,000 Benjamin Hébert (1)
30 Aug Trophee Preven's France 50,000 Bruno-Teva Lecuona (3)
6 Sep Open International de Normandie France 50,000 Damien Perrier (1)
13 Sep Allianz Open Stade Français Paris France 45,000 Mike Lorenzo-Vera (4)
20 Sep Open de la Mirabelle d'Or France 45,000 Julien Xanthopoulos (3)
3 Oct Castelvolturno International Open Italy 50,000 Matthew Cryer (1)
10 Oct Feudo d'Asti Golf Open Italy 50,000 Marco Crespi (3)
25 Oct Masters 13 France 50,000 Ghislain Rosier (1)
Unofficial events
The following events were sanctioned by the Alps Tour, but did not carry official money, nor were wins official.
Date
Tournament
Host country
Purse (€ )
Winner
10 Dec
Samanah Masters
Morocco
70,000
Daniel Brooks
Order of Merit
The Order of Merit was based on tournament results during the season, calculated using a points-based system.[ 2] The top five players on the Order of Merit earned status to play on the 2010 Challenge Tour .[ 3]
Position
Player
Points
Status earned
1 Andrea Perrino 48,285 Promoted to Challenge Tour
2 Steve Lewton 33,860
3 Julien Xanthopoulos 33,735
4 Baptiste Chapellan 30,020
5 Fabien Marty 29,613
6 Édouard Dubois 27,491
7 Damien Perrier 27,407
8 Thomas Fournier 27,200
9 Uli Weinhandl 26,978
10 Bruno-Teva Lecuona 23,780
Notes
↑ The number in brackets after each winner's name is the number of Alps Tour events they had won up to and including that tournament. It is rare for someone to accumulate many wins on the Alps Tour as success at this level usually leads to promotion to the Challenge Tour .
External links
2009 Satellite Tour seasons