2012 Alps Tour
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Golf tour season
| Duration | 8 February 2012 (2012年02月08日) – 4 November 2012 (2012年11月04日) |
|---|---|
| Number of official events | 19 |
| Most wins | Republic of Ireland Brendan McCarroll (2) England Jack Senior (2) |
| Order of Merit | Northern Ireland Gareth Shaw |
← 2011 2013 → | |
The 2012 Alps Tour was the 12th season of the Alps Tour, a third-tier golf tour recognised by the European Tour.
Schedule
[edit ]The following table lists official events during the 2012 season.[1]
| Date | Tournament | Host country | Purse (€) |
Winner[a] | Other tours[b] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 Feb | Open Palmeraie PGP | Morocco | 30,000 | United States Timothy O'Neal (1) | |
| 16 Feb | Open Samanah | Morocco | 30,000 | Italy Matteo Delpodio (4) | |
| 28 Apr | Peugeot Alps de Barcelona | Spain | 48,000 | Spain Pablo Larrazábal (1) | |
| 12 May | Servizitalia Lignano Open | Italy | 45,000 | England Jack Senior (1) | |
| 20 May | Gösser Open | Austria | 40,000 | Republic of Ireland Brendan McCarroll (1) | |
| 26 May | LUMAR Slovenian Golf Open | Slovenia | 40,000 | England Chris McDonnell (1) | |
| 3 Jun | Open de Saint François Guadeloupe | Guadeloupe | 50,000 | England Jack Senior (2) | |
| 10 Jun | Casino Sanremo Open | Italy | 40,000 | Republic of Ireland Brendan McCarroll (2) | |
| 16 Jun | Alps de Andalucía | Spain | 48,000 | France Jérôme Lando-Casanova (1) | |
| 24 Jun | Open du Haut Poitou | France | 40,000 | France Sébastien Gros (1) | |
| 1 Jul | Open de la Mirabelle d'Or | France | 50,000 | France Xavier Poncelet (1) | |
| 8 Jul | Flory Van Donck Trophy | Belgium | 45,000 | Belgium Hugues Joannes (1) | |
| 14 Jul | Montecchia Golf Open | Italy | 40,000 | Scotland Ross Kellett (1) | |
| 21 Jul | Peugeot Tour Alps de Madrid | Spain | 48,000 | Spain Santiago Luna (2) | |
| 31 Aug | Valle d'Aosta Open | Italy | 50,000 | France Thomas Fournier (2) | |
| 16 Sep | Open International de Normandie | France | 50,000 | France Nicolas Joakimides (2) | |
| 22 Sep | Internorm Dolomiti Golf Open | Italy | 40,000 | Italy Niccolo Quintarelli (1) | |
| 20 Oct | Castellón Alps Comunidad Valencia | Spain | 48,000 | Spain Alfredo García-Heredia (1) | |
| 4 Nov | Masters 13 Allianz | France | 100,000 | France Adrien Bernadet (1) | FRA |
Order of Merit
[edit ]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 (not otherwise exempt) earned status to play on the 2013 Challenge Tour.[3]
| Position | Player | Points | Status earned |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Northern Ireland Gareth Shaw | 34,545 | Promoted to Challenge Tour |
| 2 | France Thomas Fournier | 24,188 | |
| 3 | England Jack Senior | 23,784 | Finished in Top 70 of Challenge Tour Rankings |
| 4 | France Jérôme Lando-Casanova | 22,252 | Promoted to Challenge Tour |
| 5 | Scotland Ross Kellett | 22,169 | |
| 6 | Italy Niccolo Quintarelli | 21,875 | |
| 7 | Republic of Ireland Brendan McCarroll | 21,847 | |
| 8 | France Sébastien Gros | 17,585 | |
| 9 | Spain Jesús Legarrea | 16,265 | |
| 10 | France Thomas Linard | 15,905 |
Notes
[edit ]- ^ 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.
- ^ FRA − French Tour.
References
[edit ]- ^ "Tournament schedules 2001–2021" (PDF). Alps Tour. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 August 2022. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
- ^ "2012 Alps Tour Order of Merit". Alps Tour. Archived from the original on 8 October 2022. Retrieved 8 October 2022.
- ^ "Bernadet remporte le Masters 13 Allianz" [Bernadet wins Masters 13 Allianz] (in French). Fédération Française de Golf. 4 November 2012. Archived from the original on 16 November 2012. Retrieved 8 April 2023.
Notez enfin que Jérôme Lando Casanova rejoint Thomas Fournier dans le top 5 du ranking final de l'Alps Tour et évoluera donc l'an prochain sur le Challenge Tour.
[Finally, note that Jérôme Lando Casanova joins Thomas Fournier in the top 5 of the final ranking of the Alps Tour and will therefore evolve next year on the Challenge Tour.]