2025 Challenge Tour

2025 Challenge Tour season
Duration23 January 2025 (2025-01-23) – 2 November 2025 (2025-11-02)
Number of official events29
2024
2026 →

The 2025 Challenge Tour, titled as the 2025 HotelPlanner Tour for sponsorship reasons, is the 37th season of the Challenge Tour, the official development tour to the European Tour.

HotelPlanner title sponsorship

In January, it was announced that the tour had signed a title sponsorship agreement with HotelPlanner, being renamed as the HotelPlanner Tour.[1][2]

Schedule

The following table lists official events during the 2025 season.[3][4]

Date Tournament Host country Purse
()
Winner[a] OWGR
points
Other
tours[b]
Notes
26 Jan SDC Open South Africa US$375,000 Daniel van Tonder (1) 5.77 AFR
2 Feb MyGolfLife Open South Africa US$375,000 Daniel van Tonder (2) 8.94 AFR New to Challenge Tour
9 Feb Cell C Cape Town Open South Africa US$375,000 Jamie Rutherford (1) 8.76 AFR
16 Feb NTT Data Pro-Am South Africa R7,000,000 Wilco Nienaber (2) 9.54 AFR Pro-Am
16 Mar Kolkata Challenge India US$300,000 Joshua Berry (1) 8.40 PGTI
23 Mar Delhi Challenge India US$300,000 Quim Vidal (1) 8.12 PGTI
13 Apr UAE Challenge UAE US$300,000 Renato Paratore (1) 9.21
20 Apr Abu Dhabi Challenge UAE US$300,000 Renato Paratore (2) 9.24
11 May Challenge de España Spain 300,000 Clément Charmasson (1) 8.50
25 May Danish Golf Challenge Denmark 300,000 Jonathan Gøth-Rasmussen (2) 9.01
1 Jun Challenge de Cádiz Spain 300,000 Rocco Repetto (1) 8.91
8 Jun Swiss Challenge Switzerland 300,000 Félix Mory (2) 8.76
15 Jun Raiffeisenbank Golf Challenge Czech Republic 300,000 Palmer Jackson (1) 8.63
22 Jun Blot Play9 France 300,000 James Morrison (1) 8.38
29 Jun Le Vaudreuil Golf Challenge France 300,000 David Horsey (3) 9.05
6 Jul Interwetten Open Austria 300,000 Maximilian Steinlechner (1) 8.79
13 Jul D+D Real Czech Challenge Czech Republic 300,000 9.18
20 Jul German Challenge Germany 300,000
3 Aug Farmfoods Scottish Challenge Scotland £250,000
10 Aug Irish Challenge Ireland 300,000
17 Aug Vierumäki Finnish Challenge Finland 300,000
24 Aug Dutch Futures Netherlands 300,000
31 Aug Dormy Open Sweden 300,000
7 Sep Rosa Challenge Tour Poland 300,000
14 Sep Open de Portugal Portugal 300,000
21 Sep Italian Challenge Open Italy 300,000
12 Oct Hainan Open China US$500,000 CHN
19 Oct Hangzhou Open China US$500,000 CHN
2 Nov Rolex Challenge Tour Grand Final Spain 500,000 Tour Championship

Notes

  1. ^ The number in brackets after each winner's name is the number of Challenge Tour events they had won up to and including that tournament. This information is only shown for Challenge Tour members. It is rare for someone to accumulate many wins on the Challenge Tour as success at this level usually leads to promotion to the European Tour.
  2. ^ AFR − Sunshine Tour; CHN − China Tour; PGTI − Professional Golf Tour of India.

References

  1. ^ "Challenge Tour welcomes HotelPlanner as Title Partner". European Tour. 17 January 2025. Retrieved 20 January 2025.
  2. ^ Glendinning, Matthew (20 January 2025). "HotelPlanner's title deal 'elevates' Challenge Tour". SportBusiness. Retrieved 20 January 2025.
  3. ^ "2025 Tournament schedule". European Tour. Retrieved 9 December 2024.
  4. ^ "Killeen Castle the highlight as Challenge Tour announces 2025 Global Schedule". Irish Golfer. 9 December 2024. Retrieved 9 December 2024.