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The PGA EuroPro Tour has now closed.

After 20 years at the top of the game, helping to develop some of the World's finest players, the PGA EuroPro Tour has come to an end. We’d like to thank all the players, sponsors, host venues, volunteers and fans for your support and we wish everyone well.

PGA EuroPro Tour To Fold After More Than 20 Years

Europe's third-tier development Tour will end at the conclusion of the 2022 season

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The PGA EuroPro Tour has announced that the 2022 season will be its last, citing the economic landscape of rising costs and changes in audience appetite for its decision.

It was created in 2002 following a merger between the EuroPro Tour and PGA MasterCard Tour, as the Professional Golfers' Association and Barry Hearn's Matchroom Sport joined forces.

As Europe's third-tier golf tour, the PGA EuroPro Tour held an important place in the ecosystem. The top five finishers on the Order of Merit graduated to the Challenge Tour and secured a place at Stage Two of the DP World Tour Qualifying School.

The success of the Tour is perhaps merited by its alumni, which includes Major winners in Louis Oosthuizen and Charl Schwartzel and European Ryder Cup players in the likes of Tommy Fleetwood , Tyrrell Hatton , Ross Fisher, Jamie Donaldson, Nicholas Colsaerts and Oliver Wilson . 

Although unknown at this stage, it is likely PGA EuroPro Tour members will take up opportunities on other development circuits upon conclusion of the 2022 season, such as the Clutch Pro Tour, Alps Tour, Pro Golf Tour and Nordic Golf League. 

Speaking of the decision, PGA EuroPro Tour President Barry Hearn said: "I have been honoured to have created the PGA EuroPro Tour alongside Sandy Jones of the PGA and to watch the development of so many aspiring and inspiring professional golfers.

"Sadly, in these changing times for professional golf support for Europe's biggest development tour has not been sufficient to justify its continuation but I must stress my eternal gratitude to Dan Godding and his team at the PGA EuroPro Tour, the PGA, our broadcasters Sky Sports and the golf clubs and volunteers in both the UK and Europe without whom we would never have created so many opportunities for next generation of professional golfers."

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The season closing Tour Championship will serve as the final PGA EuroPro Tour event and will take place at Lough Erne Resort 19-21 October 2022. James Allan, Michael Stewart, Dermot McElroy, Josh Hilleard and Ryan Brooks currently occupy the top-5 positions in the Order of Merit. 

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EuroPro Tour: Sky Sports looks at the third tier of professional golf aiming to supply the European Tour's future stars

By Paul Higham <i>Twitter: <a href=' http://bit.ly/e6TSqR' class='instorylink'>@SportsPaulH</a></i>

Wednesday 6 August 2014 16:51, UK

It’s the third tier of European professional golf, but the standard of the PGA EuroPro Tour is getting better and better and it provides a vital service in developing the future stars of the game.

The likes of Louis Oosthuizen, Charl Schwartzel, Jamie Donaldson, Ross Fisher and Nicolas Colsaerts  to name but a few have come through the EuroPro Tour, not a bad few names to have on your alumni list.

This season sees a 16-event calendar across the UK and Ireland, with regular highlights shows shown on Sky Sports, before the top 60 contest the Tour Championship in October when the top five will earn cards on the 2015 European Challenge Tour.

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From there they then have the chance to make it onto the full European Tour and into the big leagues, but down at the EuroPro level is where they will get some vital experience in tournament play, living away from home and facing the pressure.

Everyone has seen and played with amateur or pro golfers that strike the ball so well, chip and putt superbly but never quite have what it takes to make it – the PGA EuroPro Tour is now a great indicator of who will make it and who won’t.

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“We’ve got 16 events this year, 18 may be the optimum number, but we’ve got some great courses and great sponsors involved at the moment,” said the PGA EuroPro Tour’s Nick Teale.

“It’s the third tier of professional golf, and we’ll always be that, League One in football is never going to be bigger than the Championship, and we’re happy being a developmental tour.

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“If we have 18 events, with some great courses, then we’ll be very happy. We’d like to up the prize money a bit, to help the players out a bit more, and with better courses coming on board and the standard getting so high hopefully that will come soon.”

With courses source as The Belfry, Prince’s and The Carrick, top courses are already on board, but as players continue to emerge from the EuroPro Tour to do well on the Challenge and European Tour, sponsors will no doubt become more and more interested.

“A number of our players have gone on and won on the Challenge Tour, and they say the standard is pretty similar, maybe the strength in depth is obviously better out there but the standard you need to play at to win is the same.

“Not many players just go from amateur straight through Q School and onto the European Tour, some do because they’re that good, but most need a good grounding and we feel we give them just that.

“They’re away most of the summer, the standard is really high now, we’re over-subscribed as we’ve got about 500 players looking to get in, they play with a decent crowd on the final day and with the TV cameras there, it’s the perfect education for them if they want to make it big.

“For us really, we just want to see our player go on and become big stars, winning majors and playing in Ryder Cups, knowing they’ve come through our ranks is what the PGA EuroPro Tour is all about.”

Moor Allerton Pro-Am

At the recent Pro-Am ahead of the event at Moor Allerton Golf Club in Leeds, left-hander Greg Payne showed us the ropes in what is becoming an ever more professional set-up on the EuroPro Tour.

Course set-up is right up there with any event, with the fairways and run-off areas manicured well, and speedy greens running around 10 on the stimpmeter - but with the undulating greens around Moor Allerton that felt much, much quicker at times.

For Payne this is a second year on the EuroPro Tour after turning professional, and the competitive experience is what he and so many others are hoping to gather on their way to fulfilling their dreams of making the full tour.

“It’s great experience for us playing out here,” said Payne. “I’ve been on the road now for a few weeks going straight from event to event and that’s exactly what it would be like if I was to make the main Tour.

“I’m lucky to have my deal with Nike to get all my clubs and balls as that’s a big help, so I can just try and focus on being the best player I can be, and hopefully then success, making the European Tour and more sponsors and so on will just follow on from that.

“You can practice and practice as much as you like, and feel like you’re hitting it well, but then teeing it up in a tournament, with the TV cameras and a bit of a crowd just brings a unique tournament pressure that you just can’t replicate.”

Hopefully we’ll see the likes of Payne and a few other EuroPro Tour graduates making names for themselves in years to come, as the third tier of professional golf continues to provide a top-quality breeding ground for the next generation of golfing stars.

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Allan tops EuroPro Order of Merit

James Allan will tee it up on the European Challenge Tour in 2023 after winning the PGA EuroPro Tour’s Order of Merit in 2022.

The 28-year-old won the Tour’s season-ending Matchroom Tour Championship at Lough Erne Resort to capture his third victory of the season and cement his position at the top of the Rankings, subsequently earning his 2023 Challenge Tour playing rights.

Allan, who became the highest annual earner in the EuroPro Tour’s history, will be joined on the Challenge Tour in 2023 by fellow graduates Michael Stewart of Scotland, Northern Irishman Dermot McElroy, Welshman Jack Davidson and England’s Josh Hilleard.

Unfortunately, after 20 years developing some of Europe’s most promising talents, the PGA EuroPro Tour came to an end in 2022. The five 2022 graduates will be looking to follow in the footsteps of Ryder Cup players Tommy Fleetwood and Tyrell Hatton who have gone on to achieve great success on the DP World Tour since their graduation to the Challenge Tour from the EuroPro Tour.

More recently Englishmen Daniel Brown and John Parry, who graduated from the Euro Pro Tour in 2021, achieved back-to-back promotions as both men secured their DP World Tour cards for 2023. Parry finished in a tie for second at the Rolex Challenge Tour Grand Final supported by The R&A to catapult 17 places into the top 20 on the Road to Mallorca Rankings to earn promotion to the European Tour group’s top tier, while Brown finished third at the Final Stage of DP World Tour Qualifying School.

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