Yente van Doren earned a second promotion to the Challenge Tour in three seasons after winning the 2024 Pro Golf Tour Order of Merit.
The Belgian, who finished fifth in 2022 to gain promotion, returned to the Pro Golf League in 2024 and recorded wins in the Raiffeisen Pro Golf Tour St. Polten and the Mono Gelpenberg Open to top the Order of Merit with 27,705 points.
Joining Van Doren next year in earning promotion from the Pro Golf Tour will be countryman James Meyer de Beco, Slovakian Tadeas Tetak, Swiss Cedric Gugler and Dutchman Aydan Verdonk, with all five players set to battle it out on the 2025 Road to Mallorca.
De Beco (25,919 points) ended the year in second place on the Order of Merit and earned automatic promotion to the Challenge Tour after recording three victories, with the third of those coming in the Stippelberg Open, the penultimate event of the season.
In doing so, De Beco became the second man to do so during the calendar year, joining fellow graduate Gugler as a three-time victor. Gugler’s three wins, in the Allegria Open, The Iron Duke Belgian Open and Gradi Polish Open by Emeralld, came in just 12 starts.
Tetak will tee it up for the first time on the Challenge Tour with full playing status after ending the year in third place on the Order of Merit with 24,615 points. Top ten finishes in each of his last five starts, which included victories in the Fairway Labs Open and the season-ending Castanea Resort Championship, made sure of his graduation.
Armenian Jean Bekirian finished fourth in the Order of Merit before going on to earn DP World Tour playing privileges at Final Stage Qualifying School, meaning the promotion places extended to sixth. With Gugler ended the year fifth on 20,750 points, 28-year-old Verdonk (14,702 points) claimed the final Challenge Tour place.
After winning the NewGiza Pyramids Challenge at the start of the season, Verdonk’s sixth-place finish in the last event of the year saw him climb one place to sixth which proved crucial in ensuring his promotion.
