Gamers hoping to ply their commerce on Europe’s high tier males’s skilled circuit subsequent season are gathering in Spain this week to participate within the six-round marathon that’s the DP World Tour’s Qualifying College Ultimate Stage.
Staged over the Lakes and the Hills programs at Infinitum, the Costa Dorada-based resort previously often known as Lumine, an enormous discipline of 156 gamers shall be battling it out for simply 20 playing cards for subsequent season’s DP World Tour – 5 fewer than had been provided finally yr’s Q College.
The sphere will play 4 alternating rounds – two every on the Hills and Lakes programs – earlier than the reduce, after which the surviving gamers will battle it out throughout two last rounds on the Lakes course.
The sphere is stacked with well-known names and previous DP World Tour winners whose kind hasn’t fairly reached the heights of late, together with 4 former Ryder Cup gamers in Edoardo Molinari, Stephen Gallacher, Oliver Wilson, and Chris Wooden.
A number of DP World Tour winner Eddie Pepperell may also be hoping to earn one of many cherished playing cards on supply having misplaced of his full-time taking part in privileges after ending simply outdoors of the highest 114 on this season’s Race to Dubai rankings.
The 33-year-old from Oxfordshire shall be battling for his card alonsgside a number of the previous DPWT winners, together with Rafa Cabrera Bello, Marc Warren, James Morrison, Matthew Southgate, Kalle Samooja, David Regulation, Adri Arnaus, Renato Paratore, George Coetzee, Lee Slattery and Tom Lewis.
On the different finish of the expertise scale there shall be three amateurs within the discipline – Denmark’s Jacob Skov Olesen, who gained this yr’s Newbie Championship; Eire’s Max Kennedy, who clinched his place with a tied-14th end at a second stage qualifying occasion held in Spain final week; and 20-year-old Tiger Christensen from Germany, who additionally got here by second stage qualifying.
The match will mark the primary time that Infinitum’s newly upgraded Lakes course has welcomed stars for aggressive motion following an €800,000 renovation earlier this yr.
The Greg Norman-designed structure was elevated to new heights with pristine new Zoysia grass and a bunker renovation challenge that guarantees to pose new challenges for the gamers.
The Lakes is the longer of the 2 tracks, with the par-71 monitor measuring simply over 7,00 yards. The Hills is a par-72 however is available in barely shorter at 6,944 yards.
Joaquín Mora Bertrán, Deputy Normal Supervisor at INFINITUM, mentioned: “It’s a pleasure to welcome the DP World Tour again to host Qualifying College Ultimate Stage right here for the sixth yr in a row and we’re excited to get one other thrilling week of golf underway.
“Whereas our programs are designed to be accessible for novices and Main winners alike, make no mistake – below match circumstances, they’re a severe problem even for seasoned professionals. Gamers must be at their finest to earn a DP World Tour card. We are able to’t wait to see who rises to the problem.”
To search out the most recent scores from the DP World Tour Qualifying College Ultimate Stage, which begins on November 8, click on right here.
