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EuroPro Tour set to return to Slaley Hall in 2022

The PGA EuroPro Tour has confirmed its 2022 schedule with 15 regular season events and the Tour Championship offering more than £1,000,000 in prize money. There will also be five Challenge Tour cards on offer to the leading players at the end of the season.

2022 will be the EuroPro’s biggest season so far with events in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland – including Slaley Hall in Northumberland.

Tour CEO Dan Godding said: “I am delighted to be able to deliver such an exciting schedule for our members. Last year, we saw the standard go up several notches and we cannot wait to see what 2022 will bring.”

The tour season will begin at the end of May and visit Slaley for The QHotels Collection Championship July 27-29.

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Players to watch this season include Tyneside Golf Club-based James Wilson, who earned a full card for 2022 through his T22 finish at Qualifying School. He will be joined by Ramside-attached Jack Trewhitt, who also finished T22 at Q School. Christian Brown and Will Nimmo will also compete on the tour in 2022 following their progression to the final stage of Q School. Rhys Thompson, who made it to last season’s Tour Championship, and 2021 Walker Cup player Matty Lamb will also be ones to watch this term.

For full details of the 2022 schedule visit europrotour.com

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Lough Erne Resort’s spectacular Faldo Championship golf course will be thrust into the global spotlight when the PGA EuroPro Tour Championship Finale takes place from October 19-21.

Millions of people from right across the world are expected to watch the action which is being televised on Sky Sports Golf. The event is open to the general public free of charge and there are no tickets required for entry.

“This will be a historic moment for Lough Erne Resort as it’s the first time we will have hosted a week-long professional tournament on the Faldo Course, renowned as being one of the top parklands courses in the UK and Ireland,” says Barry McCauley, Golf Operations Manager at Lough Erne.

“Our team has been working tirelessly with the EuroPro Final Tournament Directors to ensure everything is ready.

“Over the last few years, we have made significant investments in our golf facilities, and we are excited to be able to showcase this on a global stage for golf professionals and enthusiasts alike.”

Everybody at Lough Erne will be hoping for a big home showing to entice the crowds and with just five Challenge Tour cards on offer via the Order of Merit, our small island has been punching above its weight again in 2022.

Ballymena’s Dermot McElroy looks all but assured of one of the five coveted cards. The 29-year old has enjoyed a superbly consistent campaign, claiming victory at the CPG Classic in July while also finishing second no fewer than four times from just 10 starts.

Having banked £34,316.67, McElroy sits third on the Order of Merit but with the prize money doubled for the Lough Erne Grand Final, and less than £800 between himself and money-list leader James Allan, McElroy is eager for one more big week to finish the job in top spot on the standings.

“I’m in a great position but I’d like to finish first because you’re first in that category then for next year on the Challenge Tour,” said McElroy.

“Last year you would’ve missed out on South Africa because the events are co-sanctioned. You’re up against three other mini-tours who offer cards for top-5 so if you’re fifth on EuroPro, you could be 15 th in that category. I’m only £800 behind so it would be nice to finish off the year as number one.

“Top-5 was my goal at the start of the year. The depth on EuroPro is really good. It’s a tough wee tour and only the top-5 from 156 players progress at the end of a long season so it would be a great achievement to do that.

“I want to progress my career into higher ranking events. My goal is to get onto the DP World Tour and the PGA Tour one day and I can only get there by progressing up the ranks and this was a big first step on that journey.”

The local boy McElroy hasn’t played Lough Erne since it first opened in 2010 but he fully intends to reacquaint himself with its plush surrounds, and he’ll have another top-5 challenger in Stuart Grehan to bounce ideas off in preparation for the Grand Final, too.

A dominating feature of the 7,071-yard Faldo layout is the spectacular views of Lough Erne, sights Grehan intends on making extremely familiar as he ramps up his own preparations ahead of October’s finale.

The Tullamore star is targeting a late season surge into the all-important top-5 on the Order of Merit off the back of a maiden win at the Spey Valley Championship.

“It would mean a lot to get onto the Challenge Tour. I have had a tough couple of years and it would mean so much to get there,” said Grehan who came through a 7-hole playoff to beat McElroy to his first EuroPro victory.

“Obviously having the Tour Championship in Lough Erne is massive. It’s on home soil, I’ll have a caddie that week and I’ll get good prep in so I see that as a huge opportunity, especially with the money being pretty much double.”

Grehan now finds himself in seventh spot on the money-list having bypassed invites to the Challenge Tour to focus his energy on his EuroPro exploits. With £22,145.67 to his name so far, he trails Ryan Brooks in fifth place by £4,000, but with £25,000 going to the winner at Lough Erne, Grehan has every chance to bridge that gap. And having also tasted victory at the €100,000 K Club Pro-Am on the Irish region this summer, he is taking no shortage of confidence into the EuroPro’s cash prize bonanza.

“The win doesn’t change anything, it’s just a confidence boost for me,” Grehan said.

“I’ve been playing really solid golf since the K Club. Winning there gave me a lot of confidence, but more so validation that I’m doing the right things.

“To win again is great, and I just need to keep that going and hope that come the end of the season, I’ll get my rewards.”

Grehan hopes a return to familiar pastures might just pay dividends in his push to join McElroy inside the coveted top-5, and given there are just five Challenge Tour cards on offer each year, how remarkable would it be if our small island managed to claim two of them in the curtain-closer at Lough Erne.

“I’m a big fan of Lough Erne. I played Faldo Series there under-20s,” Grehan recalled.

“I know it’s been a while but I know the course. I know they’ve invested heavily in the Resort and I’m sure it’s going to provide a fitting end to the season.”

Should Grehan fall short of his top-5 target, he also has a date with DP World Tour Q-School to look forward to. Now a Sales Assistant at McGuirks, Grehan will hope full-time golf awaits in his future but whatever happens results-wise from now until year’s end, the highly promising Tullamore talent will take confidence into 2023 having turned a corner with his game at long last.

“I won’t make a call on next year until my season finishes, so hopefully at the end of November. Unless I get a full DP World Tour card though, I’ll definitely work over the winter,” Grehan said.

“I’m going to Q-School and I’ll probably take a look at Asian Tour Q-School as well. The money there is obviously excellent so that’s another option but first and foremost, I’m focussing on Lough Erne and that top-5.

“For the last few years I’ve been searching for all the answers. This year I haven’t been second guessing myself which has been huge. I’m going to the events excited to play them rather than wondering what’s going to come out this week. I’ve had a clearer mind and thankfully that’s resulted in some good golf along the way.”

With a £102,460 prize fund at Lough Erne, and £25,000 to the winner, it’s also not beyond the realms of possibility that a bolter from the pack spoils the party for some of the season’s more consistent campaigner.

Whitehead’s John Ross Galbraith will need to win if he’s to jump from 29th place and inside the top-5 but it’s mathematically possible, and golf’s a funny game.

Ronan Mullarney (57th) is the last of the Irish challengers in the 60-man field and you can be sure the Galway man will be looking to spring an upset and have the last laugh in Enniskillen come tournament week.

Race is hotting up…

1 James Allan, England, £35,091.31 2

2 Michael Stewart, Scotland, £34,991.91 3

3 Dermot McElroy, Northern Ireland, 34,316.67

4 Josh Hilleard, England, £28,347.67

5 Ryan Brooks, England,        £26,161.25

6 Brandon Robinson Thompson £25,610.21

7 Stuart Grehan, Ireland, £22,145.67

Lough Erne pay-out; 

1 st £25,000.00       

2 nd £11,270.00      

3 rd £5,630.00

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Rutherford leads EuroPro stars into 2022

Englishman Jamie Rutherford will tee it up on the European Challenge Tour in 2022 after winning the EuroPro Tour’s Order of Merit in 2021.

The 29-year-old won the Tour’s season-ending Matchroom Tour Championship at Slaley Hall in England by one stroke to capture the £25,000 first prize and leap to the top of the Rankings, earning his Challenge Tour playing rights for 2022 in the process.

The 2017 European Tour rookie had already enjoyed a solid season on the UK-based Tour, making 13 cuts from 14 starts with one second and one third placed finish, as well as seven further top tens.

Rutherford turned professional in 2013 aged 21 but suffered a setback in February 2016 when he fractured his spine during a car accident. Not to be deterred, he returned to competitive golf just six months later and his comeback was complete later that year as he progressed through all three stages of the European Tour group’s Qualifying School to earn his top tier playing privileges for 2017.

He was unable to retain his status for the 2018 season and then went on to lose his playing rights on the Challenge Tour in 2019, but has now earned another chance on the Road to Mallorca in 2022.

Rutherford will be joined on the Challenge Tour in 2022 by fellow EuroPro Tour graduates Mitch Waite and Dan Brown, of England, and Scotland’s Calum Fyfe.

The final EuroPro Tour graduate is Englishman John Parry, who has previously won on the European Tour. The 35-year-old, who played in the same Walker Cup team as four-time Major Champion Rory McIlroy in 2007, won the 2010 Vivendi Cup.

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No Trickle Down For EuroPro Golf

Updated: Oct 6, 2022

It just got an awful lot harder for young British and Irish men to graduate to the European Tour. Welcome, boys, to what young British and Irish women have been experiencing for years.

The demise of the PGA EuroPro Tour spells a setback for many dreaming of playing on what is now called the DP World Tour. As of this month, the EuroPro will be no more after 20 years. The 2022 season-ending Matchroom Sport Tour Championship at Lough Erne, 19-21 October will serve as the swan song for the mini-tour feeder circuit.

“The economic landscape of increasing costs and the changing habits of the worldwide audience means it has become clear that unfortunately there is no longer the support nor demand in the market to operate the PGA EuroPro Tour,” CEO Daniel Godding said.

So much for trickle-down economics when golf is awash with money.

Some great players have used this circuit to launch their European Tour careers. Louis Oosthuizen, Charl Scwhartzel, Tommy Fleetwood (pictured), Ross Fisher, Tyrrell Hatton and Oliver Wilson are among a host of former EuroPro Tour grads. (A comprehensive list can be found here .)

For 20 years, this circuit has provided five cards onto the European Tour Challenge Tour for the top five on the money list. The top five this year will the last to benefit from this important pathway to the upper echelons of European golf.

No longer the support nor demand in the market to operate the PGA EuroPro Tour? Really? There has never been so much money in golf as there is right now, yet there isn’t enough to breed young talent?

As reported on bunkered.co.uk, former Amateur Championship runner-up Michael Stewart spoke for many when he lamented the lot of young stars trying to work their way up the professional golf ladder.

“It feels like there’s a massive hole in golf right now,” Stewart said.

“You hear all this stuff about growing the game and all that but it’s not really happening, is it? I mean, the guy in 60th place on the EuroPro Tour Order of Merit this year is going to make around £2,500. That’s just not right. If you’re established on any professional tour, you should be able to make a living.

“How you make that happen, I don’t know. I don’t have the answer to that. But there’s money in the game, I know that much. It just doesn’t seem to be reaching all the places it should, like the EuroPro Tour, the Sunshine Tour, the Alps Tour, even the Challenge Tour, Ladies European Tour and Ladies Access Tour.”

“There just has to be a solution. There has to be.”

Prize money on this year’s Europro Tour is approximately £850,000 for 15 £50,000-ish tournaments and the season ending Matchroom Championship worth £102,460. With weekly tournament entry fees of around £300, players foot most of the prize money, roughly £585,000. Any organisation wishing to replace Matchroom as title sponsor would only need to kick in roughly £265,000 per year.

£265,000? That’s chicken feed in an age when prize funds are running amok. You’d have thought the European Tour, thanks to its estimated $75 million investment from the PGA Tour through the “strategic alliance,” would have £265,000 to invest in a circuit that’s helped produce European Tour winners, major champions and Ryder Cup players.

Some EuroPro grads could raise the money with an annual whip round and not notice much of a dent in their bank balances.

Should we care if the EuroPro Tour disappears? There are other mini circuits for young hopefuls to hone their skills – the Clutch Tour, Alps Tour, Tartan Tour and the like. Many ordinary club or casual golfers probably don’t even know such mini tours exist, those that do probably don’t even give them a second thought.

There are those who say the cream will rise to the top even if such mini-tour circuits disappeared, the natural process of survival of the fittest and all that. Perhaps, but for Fleetwood and others, it was an important breeding ground. Nay, make that IS an important breeding ground.

I look at current names on EuroPro order of merit and see many who played international golf at amateur level who have just turned professional. For those players, the EuroPro is their learning ground. Surely if we take it away then there will be consequences for British and European Golf. Or am I just being a hopeless romantic?

Maybe, but one’s thing’s for sure: the trickle-down theory of economics doesn’t seem to be feeding down to the little guys of British and Irish golf.

Still, the upper echelon are richer than ever before, so all is right with the world.

#JustSaying : “My first European Tour cheque was for about £1,800 and I hadn’t played that well. I called home and said: ‘Mum, they’re just giving money away out here.’” Padraig Harrington, who made £1,865.29 for 49th in the 1996 FNB Players Championship

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Very disappointing news indeed Alistair and a further blow as we watch to the game we love fragmenting at the professional level. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed viewing the highlights of the EuroPro events over the years and following the career trajectories of a number of young Scottish lads. The top level of the men’s game is awash with cash at present and as you note a very modest annual investment could secure the future of the EuroPro tour - over say a three-year period and through these difficult economic times. Perhaps one (or a partnership thereof) of the semi-retired (and well pensioned for turning up at events) UK LIV contingent could consider the true meaning of “growing the game”?

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Will be an absolute travesty if the DP World Tour doesn’t step in with €1m a year to keep this tour afloat. Surely we won’t have to rely on Tommy and Tyrrell stepping in to create the TnT Tour or Justin to roll out the Rose Mens’ Series?

Agreed. €1 million a year is less than some players get in appearance fees. A pittance...

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EuroPro Tour Announces Monday Qualifiers Are Returning

Players have a chance to play in the third-tier tournaments and potentially improve their Order of Merit standings

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Following a successful trial period last year , it has been announced that the PGA EuroPro Tour will have Monday Qualifying in 2022. Each event on the Tour will host Monday Qualifying, except the season-ending Wright-Morgan Championship at Clevedon Golf Club.

Each week, the top four are granted eligibility to that week’s standard three-day tournament and the chance to win prize money and Order of Merit standings, depending on the membership option they take out. For EuroPro Tour members, entrance to Monday Qualifying costs £75, with non-members charged £125. Anyone who qualifies can then opt for temporary or affiliate membership. 

Players opting for the former face an additional £50 charge, and any winnings won’t count towards Order of Merit standings. However, those opting for the latter will qualify for Order of Merit standings, albeit at the cost of an additional £445. Nevertheless, the incentive is the chance for players to improve their playing category, which can lead to qualification for the higher-profile and potentially more lucrative Matchroom Tour Championship and Challenge Tour.

PGA EuroPro Tour CEO Dan Godding said: “We are thrilled to see Monday qualifiers returning, and we hope to see successful players push on and have an excellent tournament too. To be able to offer this service will undoubtedly bolster the Tour’s reputation, and it will also offer golfers another chance of chasing their dream – those who fell short at Q-School should be very interested by the reintroduction.”

The PGA EuroPro Tour is one of four third-tier Satellite Tours in Europe. The others are the Alps Tour, the Pro Tour and the Nordic Golf League. The Tours sit one level beneath the second-tier Challenge Tour, with the DP World Tour at the top of the pyramid.

The first Monday Qualifying will take place on 24 May for the Cubefunder Championship at Harleywood Golf Club in Marlow, Buckinghamshire. 

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