2004 Challenge Tour

The 2004 Challenge Tour was a series of golf tournaments known as the Challenge Tour, the official development tour run by the PGA European Tour. The tour was started as the Satellite Tour in 1986 and was renamed the Challenge Tour ready for the start of the 1990 season.

The Challenge Tour Rankings was won by England's Lee Slattery.

Tournament schedule

The table below shows the 2004 Challenge Tour schedule.

Dates	Tournament	Host country	Winner	Notes
12–15 Feb	Panama Masters	Panama	Miguel Fernández
19–22 Feb	Costa Rica Open	Costa Rica	Alessandro Tadini
26–29 Feb	Abierto Telefonica	Guatemala	Daniel Vancsik
11–14 Mar	Stanbic Zambia Open	Zambia	Michael Kirk
18–21 Mar	Kenya Open	Kenya	Marc Cayeux
25–28 Mar	Madeira Island Open	Portugal	Chris Hanell	European Tour event, 50% prize money
22–25 Apr	Al Ahram-Jolie Ville Sharm El Sheikh Challenge	Egypt	Gareth Davies
29 Apr–2 May	Peugeot Challenge de León	Spain	Edward Rush
6–9 May	Tessali-Metaponto Open di Puglia e Basilicata	Italy	Leif Westerberg
3–6 Jun	Nykredit Danish Open	Denmark	Matthew Morris
10–13 Jun	Segura Viudas Challenge de España	Spain	Philippe Lima
17–20 Jun	Aa St Omer Open	France	Philippe Lima	Dual-ranking event with the European Tour
24–27 Jun	Galeria Kaufhof Pokal Challenge	Germany	Garry Houston
1–4 Jul	Volvo Finnish Open	Finland	Roope Kakko (amateur)
8–11 Jul	Open des Volcans - Challenge de France	France	Johan Axgren
14–17 Jul	Texbond Open	Italy	Sam Little
22–25 Jul	JJB Sports North West Challenge	England	Fredrik Henge
5–8 Aug	Ryder Cup Wales Challenge	Wales	Graeme Storm
12–15 Aug	BMW Russian Open	Russia	Gary Emerson	Dual-ranking event with the European Tour
19–22 Aug	Norwegian Challenge	Norway	Stephen Browne
19–22 Aug	Rolex Trophy	Switzerland	Phillip Archer
26–29 Aug	Skandia PGA Open	Sweden	Matthew King
2–5 Sept	BA-CA Golf Open	Austria	Markus Brier
9–12 Sept	Telia Grand Prix	Sweden	Lee Slattery
23–26 Sept	Open de Toulouse	France	Marc Cayeux
30 Sept–3 Oct	Estoril Challenge Open Portugal Telecom	Portugal	Tom Whitehouse
7–10 Oct	Attijari Wafa - Tikida Beach Moroccan Classic	Morocco	Graeme Storm
14–17 Oct	Donnington Grove Computacenter English Challenge Open	England	Matthew King
21–24 Oct	Bouygues Telecom Grand Final	France	David Drysdale

Rankings

The top 15 on the Challenge Tour Rankings gained membership of the European Tour for the 2005 season.

Position	Player	Country	Prize money (€)
1	Lee Slattery	England	95,980
2	Alessandro Tadini	Italy	92,121
3	Graeme Storm	England	81,065
4	Marc Cayeux	Zimbabwe	75,104
5	Matthew King	England	73,623
6	Johan Axgren	Sweden	71,118
7	Leif Westerberg	Sweden	66,534
8	Phillip Archer	England	65,606
9	Henrik Nyström	Sweden	61,736
10	Garry Houston	Wales	60,587
11	Mattias Eliasson	Sweden	60,230
12	David Drysdale	Scotland	59,856
13	Richard Bland	England	58,609
14	Fredrik Henge	Sweden	58,233
15	Oliver Wilson	England	56,166

See also

• 2004 European Tour

External links

• Official homepage of the Challenge Tour