1995 European Tour

The 1995 European Tour was the 24th official season of golf tournaments known as the PGA European Tour.^[1]

The Order of Merit was won by Scotland's Colin Montgomerie.

Schedule

The table below shows the 1995 European Tour schedule which was made up of 36 tournaments, which included the major national opens around Europe. There were few changes from the previous season, with the addition of the South African PGA Championship and the loss of the Extremadura Open, the Open V33 Grand Lyon, the Belgian Open.

The numbers in parentheses after the winners' names show the number of career wins they had on the European Tour up to and including that event. This is only shown for members of the European Tour.

Dates	Tournament	Host country	Winner	Notes
19–22 Jan	Dubai Desert Classic	United Arab Emirates	Fred Couples (n/a)
26–29 Jan	Johnnie Walker Classic	Philippines	Fred Couples (n/a)
2–5 Feb	Madeira Island Open	Portugal	Santiago Luna (1)
9–12 Feb	Turespana Open De Canaria	Spain	Jarmo Sandelin (1)
16–19 Feb	Lexington South African PGA Championship	South Africa	Ernie Els (3)	New Tournament
23–26 Feb	Turespana Open Mediterrania	Spain	Robert Karlsson (1)
2–5 Mar	Turespana Masters Open de Andalucia	Spain	Alex Čejka (1)
9–12 Mar	Moroccan Open	Morocco	Mark James (17)
16–19 Mar	Portuguese Open	Portugal	Adam Hunter (1)
23–26 Mar	Turespana Open de Baleares	Spain	Greg Turner (3)
6–9 Apr	Masters Tournament	United States	Ben Crenshaw (n/a)	Unofficial money
14–17 Apr	Open Catalonia	Spain	Philip Walton (2)
21–23 Apr	Air France Cannes Open	France	André Bossert (1)
19–22 May	Italian Open	Italy	Sam Torrance (18)
11–14 May	Benson and Hedges International Open	England	Peter O'Malley (2)
18–21 May	Peugeot Spanish Open	Spain	Seve Ballesteros (50)
26–29 May	Volvo PGA Championship	England	Bernhard Langer (33)
1–4 Jun	Murphy's English Open	England	Philip Walton (3)
8–11 Jun	Deutsche Bank Open TPC of Europe	Germany	Bernhard Langer (34)
15–18 Jun	U.S. Open	United States	Corey Pavin (2)	Unofficial money
15–18 Jun	DHL Jersey Open	Jersey	Andrew Oldcorn (2)
22–25 Jun	Peugeot Open de France	France	Paul Broadhurst (4)
29 Jun–2 Jul	BMW International Open	Germany	Frank Nobilo (4)
6–9 Jul	Murphy's Irish Open	Republic of Ireland	Sam Torrance (19)
12–15 Jul	Scottish Open	Scotland	Wayne Riley (1)
20–23 Jul	The Open Championship	Scotland	John Daly (2)
27–30 Jul	Heineken Dutch Open	Netherlands	Scott Hoch (n/a)
3–6 Aug	Volvo Scandinavian Masters	Sweden	Jesper Parnevik (2)
10–13 Aug	U.S. PGA Championship	United States	Steve Elkington (n/a)	Unofficial money
10–13 Aug	Hohe Brucke Open	Austria	Alex Čejka (2)
17–20 Aug	Chemapol Trophy Czech Open	Czech Republic	Peter Teravainen (1)
24–27 Aug	Volvo German Open	Germany	Colin Montgomerie (8)
31 Aug–3 Sept	Canon European Masters	Switzerland	Mathias Grönberg (1)
7–10 Sept	Trophée Lancôme	France	Colin Montgomerie (9)
14–17 Sept	Collingtree British Masters	England	Sam Torrance (20)
28 Sept–1 Oct	Smurfit European Open	Republic of Ireland	Bernhard Langer (35)
5–8 Oct	Mercedes German Masters	Germany	Anders Forsbrand (6)
12–15 Oct	Toyota World Match Play Championship	England	Ernie Els (n/a)	Unofficial money
26–29 Oct	Volvo Masters	Spain	Alex Čejka (3)

Order of Merit

The PGA European Tour's money list was known as the "Volvo Order of Merit". It was based on prize money earned during the season and calculated in Pound sterling^[1] but is now converted to Euro.

Position	Player	Country	Prize money (€)
1	Colin Montgomerie	Scotland	1,169,072
2	Sam Torrance	Scotland	1,057,989
3	Bernhard Langer	Germany	918,196
4	Costantino Rocca	Italy	722,848
5	Michael Campbell	New Zealand	561,368
6	Alex Čejka	Germany	431,361
7	Mark James	England	416,329
8	Barry Lane	England	398,169
9	Anders Forsbrand	Sweden	394,417
10	Peter O'Malley	Australia	365,017

See also

• List of golfers with most European Tour wins

References

External links

• 1995 season results on the PGA European Tour website
• 1995 Order of Merit on the PGA European Tour website