EPD Tour

The EPD Tour ( engl. European Professional Development Tour ) was founded in 1997 by the Canadian Wayne Hachey and is part of the Satellite tour, which also includes the Alps Tour, the Nordic League and the PGA Tour Europro count. After the European Tour and the Challenge Tour are the tournament series, the Satellite tour the third power level in professional golf dar.

With the start of the season 2013, the EPD Tour was renamed " Pro Golf Tour".

History

The Canadian Wayne Hachey, himself a trained PGA Teaching Professional in 1989 moved to Germany and worked until 1994 as a trainer in Erlangen. In 1995 and 1996 he tried himself to smaller professional tours in the United States. There, the idea for the EPD Tour was: "I thought to myself, something we need for our professionals in Europe. " Since its early years, the EPD Tour has constantly developed further. Players from 45 countries have participated in the tournaments since the founding of the Tour in 1997. In the inaugural season of 1997 six tournaments between Munich and Hamburg were carried out and paid $ 15,000 cash prize, the lucky winner, the Austrian Pepi J. Ebner, qualified for the One Million Dollar Tour in California. 2001, the tour was officially recognized by the European Tour. Today, the EPD Tour is the " springboard " for the next generation of professional golfers. The German player Marcel Siem and Martin Kaymer started their career on the EPD Tour.Wie the EPD Tour has evolved in recent years?

2006 coined Martin Kaymer the tour. In his first season as a professional, he celebrated five victories. Kaymer Thus, qualified directly for the Challenge Tour, and finally marched on the ranking of the European Tour through. The jump on the Challenge Tour in 2007 managed to Robin Swane, Benjamin Miarka, Manuel Kempe, Lasse Jensen and Richard Treis. The EPD Tour now pours out of nearly half a million euros in prize money. The acquisition by the PGA of Germany and the participation of Langer Sport Marketing GmbH guarantees ensure that the success story of the series will find its continuation.

Tour founder Hachey found it, as he admits, " not easy ", the series that he had to bring into being then six tournaments and a total of 15,000 marks in prize money in 1997 to sell.

With the start of the 2013 season was renamed "Pro Golf Tour". " What remains unchanged is the Pro Golf Tour, a satellite tour of the European Tour and thus a direct qualification opportunity for the Challenge Tour. "