2001 Alps Tour season
Duration22 March 2001 (2001-03-22) – 28 November 2001 (2001-11-28)
Number of official events16
Most winsFrance Bertrand Cornut (2)
Austria Gordon Manson (2)
Italy Stefano Reale (2)
Order of MeritItaly Stefano Reale
2002

The 2001 Alps Tour was the inaugural season of the Alps Tour, a third-tier tour recognised by the European Tour.

Schedule

The following table lists official events during the 2001 season.[1]

DateTournamentHost countryPurse
()
Winner[lower-alpha 1]
25 MarMemorial Richard OlalaintyFrance45,000France Mickaël Dieu (1)
6 AprExecutive Group Modena OpenItaly25,000Italy Baldovino Dassù (1)
6 MayDonau OpenAustria19,000France Maxime Demory (1)
1 JunIl Bipop Carire OpenItaly25,000Italy Silvio Grappasonni (1)
3 JunOpen de BordeauxFrance30,000France Bertrand Cornut (1)
17 JunGösser OpenAustria19,000Austria Gordon Manson (1)
24 JunMemorial Olivier BarrasSwitzerland36,000Italy Stefano Reale (1)
1 JulUBS Warburg Golf OpenSwitzerland67,000France Bertrand Cornut (2)
13 JulQuattroruote OpenItaly43,000Italy Stefano Reale (2)
12 AugMurtal OpenAustria22,000France Alexandre Balicki (1)
19 AugNÖ OpenAustria22,000Italy Alessandro Napoleoni (1)
15 SepSteigenberger OpenAustria22,000Austria Markus Brier (1)
29 SepOpen de ToulouseFrance60,000France Roger Sabarros (1)
7 OctIntercontinental OpenAustria22,000Austria Gordon Manson (2)
14 OctIl Selesta OpenItaly25,000France Julien van Hauwe (1)
28 NovRiviera dei Fiori OpenItaly25,000Italy Gianluca Pietrobono (1)

Order of Merit

The Order of Merit was based on prize money won during the season, calculated in Euros.[2] The top four players on the Order of Merit earned status to play on the 2002 Challenge Tour.[3]

Position Player Prize money () Status earned
1Italy Stefano Reale23,332Promoted to Challenge Tour
2France Bertrand Cornut23,011
3France Alexandre Balicki13,869
4France Julien van Hauwe12,230
5France Roger Sabarros12,219
6Italy Alessandro Tadini11,924
7Italy Alessandro Napoleoni11,423
8Italy Marco Soffietti10,439
9France Mickaël Dieu10,334
10Italy Gianluca Pietrobono10,286

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. "Endstand nach 16 Turnieren" [Final standings after 16 tournaments]. golf.at (in German). Archived from the original on 10 February 2002. Retrieved 10 April 2023.
  3. "Players in Top 5 Order of Merit qualified for the Challenge Tour 2001–2021" (PDF). Alps Tour. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 September 2022. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
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