This is a list of the 32 players who earned their 2009 European Tour card through Q School in 2008.

#	Player	European Tour starts	Cuts made	Notes
1	Martin Wiegele Martin Wiegele Martin Wiegele is a Austrian professional golfer.Wiegele was born in Graz. He turned professional in 2003 when he joined the second tier Challenge Tour. He enjoyed some success during his first season finishing fourth on the end of season rankings to graduate to the top level European Tour for 2004...	34	8	1 Challenge Tour Challenge Tour The Challenge Tour is the second tier men's professional golf tour in Europe. It is operated by the PGA European Tour and as with on the main European Tour and the European Seniors Tour, some of the events are played outside of Europe...  win
T2	Pedro Linhart Pedro Linhart Pedro Linhart is a Spanish professional golfer.Linhart was born Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Spain to American parents, and took up Spanish citizenship in the 1980s...	161	85	1 European Tour win, 1 Challenge Tour Challenge Tour The Challenge Tour is the second tier men's professional golf tour in Europe. It is operated by the PGA European Tour and as with on the main European Tour and the European Seniors Tour, some of the events are played outside of Europe...  win
T2	Lee Slattery Lee Slattery Lee Andrew Slattery is an English professional golfer who currently plays on the European Tour.Slattery was born in Southport, Lancashire. He turned professional in 1998 and spent his early career playing in minor tournaments on mini-tours in the United Kingdom. He won the Tour Championship on the...	81	39	1 Challenge Tour Challenge Tour The Challenge Tour is the second tier men's professional golf tour in Europe. It is operated by the PGA European Tour and as with on the main European Tour and the European Seniors Tour, some of the events are played outside of Europe...  win
T4	Luis Claverie	34	14
T4	Florian Praegant	3	0	Recovered from sustaining a broken neck in 2006
T6	Sion Bebb Sion Bebb Sion Emrys Bebb is a Welsh professional golfer.Bebb was born in Church Village, Mid Glamorgan, and is the son of former Welsh international rugby player Dewi Bebb. He turned professional in 1986 and worked for many years as a club professional before forging a tournament career...	54	25	1 Challenge Tour Challenge Tour The Challenge Tour is the second tier men's professional golf tour in Europe. It is operated by the PGA European Tour and as with on the main European Tour and the European Seniors Tour, some of the events are played outside of Europe...  win
T6	Lee S. James Lee S. James Lee Scott James is an English professional golfer.James was born in Poole, Dorset. He won the 1994 Amateur Championship with a 2 & 1 victory over Gordon Sherry...	74	25	4 Challenge Tour Challenge Tour The Challenge Tour is the second tier men's professional golf tour in Europe. It is operated by the PGA European Tour and as with on the main European Tour and the European Seniors Tour, some of the events are played outside of Europe...  wins; won 1994 Amateur Championship and played in 1995 Walker Cup Walker Cup The Walker Cup is a golf trophy contested biennially in odd numbered years between teams comprising the leading amateur golfers of the United States and Great Britain and Ireland...
T6	Alan McLean	64	24	2 Sunshine Tour Sunshine Tour The Sunshine Tour is a men's professional golf tour based in Southern Africa. For much of its history it was known either as the South African Tour or the FNB Tour, but it rebranded itself in an attempt to broaden its appeal...  wins
T6	François Delamontagne François Delamontagne François Delamontagne is a French professional golfer.-Professional career:Delamontagne turned professional in 2001 prior to competing in the European Tour's qualifying school. He reached the final stage, a performance which enabled him to play a full season on the second-tier Challenge Tour in 2002...	113	54	Had already earned a Tour card by finishing 19th in 2007 Challenge Tour 2007 Challenge Tour The 2007 Challenge Tour was a series of golf tournaments known as the Challenge Tour, the official development tour run by the PGA European Tour...  rankings
T6	Pablo Larrazábal Pablo Larrazabal Pablo Larrazábal is a Spanish professional golfer currently playing on the European Tour.Larrazábal was born in Barcelona, Spain. He attended high school in the United States and returned to Spain in 2002 with the intention of turning professional but his father made him work on the family fish...	1	0	Won 2008 Open de France Open de France The Open de France is a European Tour golf tournament. Inaugurated in 1906 it is the oldest national open in Continental Europe and has been part of the European Tour's schedule since the tour's inception in 1972.... ; 2008 Sir Henry Cotton Rookie of the Year
T11	Joakim Bäckström Joakim Bäckström Joakim Bäckström is a Swedish professional golfer.Bäckström was born in Umeå. He turned professional in 1999.Having failed to win a place on the European Tour in 2000, Bäckström spent his early career in Sweden on the Telia Tour, where he won the 2001 Gula Sidorna Grand Open and the 2002 Sunbyholm...	83	43	1 European Tour win
T11	Richard Bland Richard Bland (golfer) Richard Bland is an English professional golfer.Bland was born in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire. He turned professional in 1996 and reached the final stage of the European Tour's qualifying school in 1997 to gain his card on Europe's second tier Challenge Tour for 1998. In 2001 he won for the...	154	70	1 Challenge Tour Challenge Tour The Challenge Tour is the second tier men's professional golf tour in Europe. It is operated by the PGA European Tour and as with on the main European Tour and the European Seniors Tour, some of the events are played outside of Europe...  win
T11	Birgir Hafthorsson	31	15
T11	Sven Strüver Sven Strüver Sven Strüver is a German professional golfer.Strüver was born in Bremen. In the 1989 German Open, he shot a 62 in the second round to set a new record for the lowest round by an amateur in a European Tour event. The record was equalled by Shane Lowry in the 2009 Irish Open.Strüver turned...	403	236	3 European Tour wins
T11	Paolo Terreni	8	2
T16	David Drysdale David Drysdale David Drysdale is a Scottish professional golfer.Drysdale was born in Edinburgh. He turned professional in 1995.Drysdale currently competes on the European Tour, having graduated through qualifying school for the fourth time at the end of 2008...	130	63	2 Challenge Tour Challenge Tour The Challenge Tour is the second tier men's professional golf tour in Europe. It is operated by the PGA European Tour and as with on the main European Tour and the European Seniors Tour, some of the events are played outside of Europe...  wins
T16	Craig Lee Craig Lee Craig Lee is a Scottish professional golfer who plays on the European Tour.-Career:Lee had a successful amateur career in his home country, culminating with a win in the national Boys Stroke Play event in 1995. He turned professional the following year, but struggled to replicate his success,...	8	1
T16	Matthew Millar Matthew Millar Matthew Millar is an Australian professional golfer.-Career:Millar turned professional in 1999. From 2006-2009, he played on the European Tour, having come through all three stages of qualifying school; his best year-end result was 115th in the 2006 Order of Merit...	55	31
T16	David Dixon David Dixon (golfer) David Dixon is an English professional golfer.Dixon was born in Bridgwater, Somerset, England. He turned professional in 2001....	91	41	Won 2008 Saint-Omer Open; won 2000 Lytham Trophy Lytham Trophy The Lytham Trophy is an amateur golf tournament founded in 1965 by the Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club, where it has always been held. It is a 72-hole scratch stroke play competition, and is classified as a Category A event by the World Amateur Golf Rankings....
T16	Juan Abbate	10	1
T16	Benoît Teilleria	112	51
T22	Thomas Aiken Thomas Aiken Thomas Edward Aiken is a South African professional golfer who plays on the European Tour.Following a successful amateur career, which included being named the South African Amateur of the Year in 2001, Aiken turned professional at the start of 2002. In 2004, he won three times on the Sunshine...	18	6	6 Sunshine Tour Sunshine Tour The Sunshine Tour is a men's professional golf tour based in Southern Africa. For much of its history it was known either as the South African Tour or the FNB Tour, but it rebranded itself in an attempt to broaden its appeal...  wins
T22	Philip Golding Philip Golding Philip Keith Golding is an English professional golfer.Golding was born in Luton, Bedfordshire. He was a promising cricketer who played for Middlesex Colts before he took up golf at the age of 17...	309	135	1 European Tour win, 3 Challenge Tour Challenge Tour The Challenge Tour is the second tier men's professional golf tour in Europe. It is operated by the PGA European Tour and as with on the main European Tour and the European Seniors Tour, some of the events are played outside of Europe...  wins
T22	Marcel Siem Marcel Siem Marcel Siem is a German professional golfer.Siem was born in Mettmann. He turned professional in 2000. He has been a member of the European Tour since 2002 and his first and only win on the Tour to date came at the 2004 Dunhill Championship...	148	87	1 European Tour win
T22	Patrik Sjöland Patrik Sjöland Patrik Sjöland is a Swedish professional golfer.Sjöland was born in Borås. He turned professional in 1990 and after several season on the second tier Challenge Tour, graduated to the European Tour for the start of the 1996 season...	279	164	2 European Tour wins, 1 Challenge Tour Challenge Tour The Challenge Tour is the second tier men's professional golf tour in Europe. It is operated by the PGA European Tour and as with on the main European Tour and the European Seniors Tour, some of the events are played outside of Europe...  win
T22	Ulrich van den Berg Ulrich van den Berg Ulrich van den Berg is a South African professional golfer.Van den Berg was born in East London. He had a successful amateur career which peaked in 1997 when he won the South African Amateur Strokeplay Championship, the Transvaal Amateur, and the Western Province Strokeplay Championship. He turned...	22	8	5 Sunshine Tour Sunshine Tour The Sunshine Tour is a men's professional golf tour based in Southern Africa. For much of its history it was known either as the South African Tour or the FNB Tour, but it rebranded itself in an attempt to broaden its appeal...  wins
T22	Jan-Are Larsen Jan-Are Larsen Jan-Are Larsen is a Norwegian professional golfer.Having shown promise as an amateur golfer, Larsen earned a scholarship to play on the golf team at the University of Alabama. Upon graduating in 2002, he entered qualifying school for the European Tour as an amateur, and was successful in claiming...	46	19	Had already earned a Tour card by finishing 20th in 2007 Challenge Tour 2007 Challenge Tour The 2007 Challenge Tour was a series of golf tournaments known as the Challenge Tour, the official development tour run by the PGA European Tour...  rankings
T22	Gareth Paddison Gareth Paddison Gareth Paddison is a New Zealand professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour of Australasia.As an amateur, Paddison won the New Zealand Amateur Stroke Play Championship and the Queensland Amateur Championship 1999 and the Canadian Amateur Championship in 2001. He also represented New Zealand at...	37	14	1 Challenge Tour Challenge Tour The Challenge Tour is the second tier men's professional golf tour in Europe. It is operated by the PGA European Tour and as with on the main European Tour and the European Seniors Tour, some of the events are played outside of Europe...  win, 2 PGA Tour of Australasia PGA Tour of Australasia The PGA Tour of Australasia is a professional golf tour for men. Official events on the tour count for World Golf Ranking points. The tour was formed in 1973 as the PGA Tour of Australia and adopted its current name in 1991....  wins
T22	James Kamte James Kamte James Bongani Kamte , nicknamed "Cobra", is a South African golfer. He has been playing on the Sunshine Tour and European Challenge Tours for the past four years, and earned his tour card for the 2008 European Tour season by finishing in the top 30 of the qualifying school.-Early life:Kamte was a...	10	5	1 Sunshine Tour Sunshine Tour The Sunshine Tour is a men's professional golf tour based in Southern Africa. For much of its history it was known either as the South African Tour or the FNB Tour, but it rebranded itself in an attempt to broaden its appeal...  win; first black South African on Tour for 31 years
T22	Paul Waring Paul Waring Paul James Waring is an English professional golfer.Waring was born in Birkenhead. He had a successful amateur career which included winning the English Amateur in 2005. He turned professional in 2007 and almost enjoyed immediate success on the second tier Challenge Tour when he lost out in a...	1	0

• Players in yellow were 2008 European Tour rookies.

2008 Results

Player	Starts	Cuts made	Best finish	Money list rank	Earnings (€)
Martin Wiegele Martin Wiegele Martin Wiegele is a Austrian professional golfer.Wiegele was born in Graz. He turned professional in 2003 when he joined the second tier Challenge Tour. He enjoyed some success during his first season finishing fourth on the end of season rankings to graduate to the top level European Tour for 2004...	25	13		142	138,672
Pedro Linhart Pedro Linhart Pedro Linhart is a Spanish professional golfer.Linhart was born Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Spain to American parents, and took up Spanish citizenship in the 1980s...	20	9		196	49,535
Lee Slattery Lee Slattery Lee Andrew Slattery is an English professional golfer who currently plays on the European Tour.Slattery was born in Southport, Lancashire. He turned professional in 1998 and spent his early career playing in minor tournaments on mini-tours in the United Kingdom. He won the Tour Championship on the...	27	14		107	275,242
Luis Claverie	23	7		197	48,046
Florian Praegant	20	5		249	23,918
Sion Bebb Sion Bebb Sion Emrys Bebb is a Welsh professional golfer.Bebb was born in Church Village, Mid Glamorgan, and is the son of former Welsh international rugby player Dewi Bebb. He turned professional in 1986 and worked for many years as a club professional before forging a tournament career...	24	11		140	138,898
Lee S. James Lee S. James Lee Scott James is an English professional golfer.James was born in Poole, Dorset. He won the 1994 Amateur Championship with a 2 & 1 victory over Gordon Sherry...	22	6		176	74,377
Alan McLean	10	6		253	22,531
François Delamontagne François Delamontagne François Delamontagne is a French professional golfer.-Professional career:Delamontagne turned professional in 2001 prior to competing in the European Tour's qualifying school. He reached the final stage, a performance which enabled him to play a full season on the second-tier Challenge Tour in 2002...	26	17		118	223,746
Pablo Larrazábal Pablo Larrazabal Pablo Larrazábal is a Spanish professional golfer currently playing on the European Tour.Larrazábal was born in Barcelona, Spain. He attended high school in the United States and returned to Spain in 2002 with the intention of turning professional but his father made him work on the family fish...	28	17		18	960,858
Joakim Bäckström Joakim Bäckström Joakim Bäckström is a Swedish professional golfer.Bäckström was born in Umeå. He turned professional in 1999.Having failed to win a place on the European Tour in 2000, Bäckström spent his early career in Sweden on the Telia Tour, where he won the 2001 Gula Sidorna Grand Open and the 2002 Sunbyholm...	21	9		192	55,051
Richard Bland Richard Bland (golfer) Richard Bland is an English professional golfer.Bland was born in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire. He turned professional in 1996 and reached the final stage of the European Tour's qualifying school in 1997 to gain his card on Europe's second tier Challenge Tour for 1998. In 2001 he won for the...	17	9		167	88,363
Birgir Hafthorsson	8	3		284	9,288
Sven Strüver Sven Strüver Sven Strüver is a German professional golfer.Strüver was born in Bremen. In the 1989 German Open, he shot a 62 in the second round to set a new record for the lowest round by an amateur in a European Tour event. The record was equalled by Shane Lowry in the 2009 Irish Open.Strüver turned...	25	8		163	96,248
Paolo Terreni	20	2		324	4,062
David Drysdale David Drysdale David Drysdale is a Scottish professional golfer.Drysdale was born in Edinburgh. He turned professional in 1995.Drysdale currently competes on the European Tour, having graduated through qualifying school for the fourth time at the end of 2008...	23	8		151	131,473
Craig Lee Craig Lee Craig Lee is a Scottish professional golfer who plays on the European Tour.-Career:Lee had a successful amateur career in his home country, culminating with a win in the national Boys Stroke Play event in 1995. He turned professional the following year, but struggled to replicate his success,...	20	6		186	60,766
Matthew Millar Matthew Millar Matthew Millar is an Australian professional golfer.-Career:Millar turned professional in 1999. From 2006-2009, he played on the European Tour, having come through all three stages of qualifying school; his best year-end result was 115th in the 2006 Order of Merit...	20	14		135	151,176
David Dixon David Dixon (golfer) David Dixon is an English professional golfer.Dixon was born in Bridgwater, Somerset, England. He turned professional in 2001....	24	10		114	240,032
Juan Abbate	21	8		166	90,633
Benoît Teilleria	19	7		216	37,762
Thomas Aiken Thomas Aiken Thomas Edward Aiken is a South African professional golfer who plays on the European Tour.Following a successful amateur career, which included being named the South African Amateur of the Year in 2001, Aiken turned professional at the start of 2002. In 2004, he won three times on the Sunshine...	24	13		131	160,775
Philip Golding Philip Golding Philip Keith Golding is an English professional golfer.Golding was born in Luton, Bedfordshire. He was a promising cricketer who played for Middlesex Colts before he took up golf at the age of 17...	19	4		234	27,584
Marcel Siem Marcel Siem Marcel Siem is a German professional golfer.Siem was born in Mettmann. He turned professional in 2000. He has been a member of the European Tour since 2002 and his first and only win on the Tour to date came at the 2004 Dunhill Championship...	28	14		96	309,839
Patrik Sjöland Patrik Sjöland Patrik Sjöland is a Swedish professional golfer.Sjöland was born in Borås. He turned professional in 1990 and after several season on the second tier Challenge Tour, graduated to the European Tour for the start of the 1996 season...	26	14		119	223,413
Ulrich van den Berg Ulrich van den Berg Ulrich van den Berg is a South African professional golfer.Van den Berg was born in East London. He had a successful amateur career which peaked in 1997 when he won the South African Amateur Strokeplay Championship, the Transvaal Amateur, and the Western Province Strokeplay Championship. He turned...	9	5		206	41,409
Jan-Are Larsen Jan-Are Larsen Jan-Are Larsen is a Norwegian professional golfer.Having shown promise as an amateur golfer, Larsen earned a scholarship to play on the golf team at the University of Alabama. Upon graduating in 2002, he entered qualifying school for the European Tour as an amateur, and was successful in claiming...	17	10		146	135,589
Gareth Paddison Gareth Paddison Gareth Paddison is a New Zealand professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour of Australasia.As an amateur, Paddison won the New Zealand Amateur Stroke Play Championship and the Queensland Amateur Championship 1999 and the Canadian Amateur Championship in 2001. He also represented New Zealand at...	25	12		149	132,294
James Kamte James Kamte James Bongani Kamte , nicknamed "Cobra", is a South African golfer. He has been playing on the Sunshine Tour and European Challenge Tours for the past four years, and earned his tour card for the 2008 European Tour season by finishing in the top 30 of the qualifying school.-Early life:Kamte was a...	23	9		138	142,062
Paul Waring Paul Waring Paul James Waring is an English professional golfer.Waring was born in Birkenhead. He had a successful amateur career which included winning the English Amateur in 2005. He turned professional in 2007 and almost enjoyed immediate success on the second tier Challenge Tour when he lost out in a...	22	15		105	279,872

T = Tied

Blue background indicates the player retained his European Tour card for 2009 and qualified for the Dubai World Championship

Dubai World Championship

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 (finished inside the top 60).

Green background indicates the player retained his European Tour card for 2009 (finished between 61-118).

Yellow background indicates the player did not retain his European Tour Tour card for 2009, but retained conditional status (finished between 119-151).

Red background indicates the player did not retain his European Tour card for 2010 (finished outside the top 151).

Winners on the European Tour in 2008

No.	Date	Player	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner-up
1	15 Jun	David Dixon David Dixon David Dixon is an English actor and screenwriter. He was born in the Nightingale Maternity Home, Derby, near his father's shop in 94 London Road and brought up there before the family moved to 14 St...	Saint-Omer Open	-5 (77-67-69-66=279)	1 stroke	Christian Nilsson Christian Nilsson -Professional career:Nilsson was born in Karlstad, Sweden. He turned professional in 1999 with a plus 3 handicap. Nilsson played on the Challenge Tour full time since 2004, playing few events before then. His first event on the European Tour was the 2005 Open Championship where he missed the cut....
2	29 Jun	Pablo Larrazábal Pablo Larrazabal Pablo Larrazábal is a Spanish professional golfer currently playing on the European Tour.Larrazábal was born in Barcelona, Spain. He attended high school in the United States and returned to Spain in 2002 with the intention of turning professional but his father made him work on the family fish...	Open de France ALSTOM	-15 (65-70-67-67=269)	4 strokes	Colin Montgomerie Colin Montgomerie Colin Stuart Montgomerie, OBE is a Scottish professional golfer, often referred to by one of his nicknames 'Monty'. He has had one of the finest careers in European Tour history, having won a record eight Order of Merit titles, including a streak of seven consecutively from 1993 to 1999, and 31...

Runners-up on the European Tour in 2008

No.	Date	Player	Tournament	Winner	Winning score	Runner-up score
1	9 Dec (2007 calendar year)	Lee Slattery Lee Slattery Lee Andrew Slattery is an English professional golfer who currently plays on the European Tour.Slattery was born in Southport, Lancashire. He turned professional in 1998 and spent his early career playing in minor tournaments on mini-tours in the United Kingdom. He won the Tour Championship on the...	Alfred Dunhill Championship	John Bickerton John Bickerton John Edward Bickerton is an English golfer.Bickerton was born in Redditch, England. He turned professional in 1991....	-13 (70-69-68-68=275)	-12 (73-65-67-71=276)