2011 Alps Tour

2011 Alps Tour season

Duration	10 March 2011 (2011-03-10) – 21 October 2011 (2011-10-21)
Number of official events	18
Most wins	Chris Paisley (3)
Order of Merit	Guillaume Cambis
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The 2011 Alps Tour was the 11th season of the Alps Tour, a third-tier golf tour recognised by the European Tour.

Schedule

The following table lists official events during the 2011 season.^[1]

Date	Tournament	Host country	Purse (€)	Winner[a]
12 Mar	Peugeot Tour de Valencia	Spain	48,000	Chris Paisley (1)
30 Apr	Peugeot Open de Catalunya	Spain	48,000	Chris Paisley (2)
15 May	Slovenian Golf Open	Slovenia	40,000	Jason Barnes (2)
22 May	Gösser Open	Austria	40,000	Scott Henry (1)
29 May	Open de Saint François Guadeloupe	Guadeloupe	50,000	Ignacio Sánchez-Palencia (1)
19 Jun	Feudo d'Asti Golf Open	Italy	40,000	Cristiano Terragni (1)
26 Jun	Allianz Open de la Mirabelle d'Or	France	50,000	Clément Sordet (a) (1)
1 Jul	Milan Zoate Golf Open	Italy	40,000	Jason Kelly (1)
9 Jul	Open du Haut Poitou	France	40,000	Michael Hill (1)
16 Jul	Peugeot Tour Alps de España	Spain	48,000	Carlos García Simarro (1)
22 Jul	Le Fonti Open	Italy	40,000	Marco Crespi (4)
14 Aug	Flory Van Donck Trophy	Belgium	45,000	Marco Crespi (5)
27 Aug	Styrian Mountain Golf Open	Austria	45,000	Chris Paisley (3)
11 Sep	Open International de Normandie	France	50,000	Romain Schneider (1)
17 Sep	Internorm Dolomiti Golf Open	Italy	45,000	Farren Keenan (1)
24 Sep	Peugeot Tour de Lerma	Spain	48,000	Santiago Luna (1)
16 Oct	Masters 13	France	45,000	Guillame Cambis (1)
21 Oct	Sardinia Golf Open	Italy	40,000	Guillame Cambis (2)

Order of Merit

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 2012 Challenge Tour.^[3]

Position	Player	Points	Status earned
1	Guillaume Cambis	30,124	Qualified for European Tour (Top 25 in Q School)
2	Jason Barnes	29,401	Promoted to Challenge Tour
3	Chris Paisley	28,209	Finished in Top 80 of Challenge Tour Rankings
4	Marco Crespi	24,736	Promoted to Challenge Tour
5	Scott Henry	21,818
6	Farren Keenan	18,393
7	Romain Schneider	17,277
8	Xavier Poncelet	17,085
9	Jason Kelly	13,953
10	Jordan Gibb	13,698	Qualified for Challenge Tour (made cut in Q School)

Notes

1. 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.

References

1. "Tournament schedules 2001–2021" (PDF). Alps Tour. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 August 2022. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
2. "2011 Alps Tour Order of Merit". Alps Tour. Archived from the original on 8 October 2022. Retrieved 8 October 2022.
3. "Cambis second win in a row". Alps Tour. 21 October 2011. Retrieved 9 April 2023. The Alps Tour is pleased to announced the name of the 6 players graduated for Challenge Tour next year: England's Chris Paisley, who has already confirmed his full category on Challenge Tour, then France's Guillaume Cambis, England's Jason Barnes, Italian Marco Crespi, Scotland's Scott Henry and England's Farren Keenan.

External links

• Official website