NO SCOTS AMONG 17 GRADUATES TO 2008
EUROPEAN SENIORS TOUR

Scots Mike Miller, Bill McColl, Steve Martin and Duncan Williamson all missed out as England's
Bob Larratt came top of the class today at the European Seniors Tour Final Qualifying School to head 17 graduates to the 2008 Seniors Tour.
The 54 year old will join the likes of Carl Mason, Sam Torrance and Ian Woosnam on next year’s Seniors Tour after finishing two strokes clear of countryman John Hoskison at the Pestana Golf Resort on the Algarve in Portugal on three under par 281.
Another English duo – Jeff Hall and Ian Mosey – as well as Northern Ireland’s Jimmy Heggarty shared third place on level par.
Larratt produced a final round of one under par 70 on the Pinta Course to record his three under winning total.
“I’m delighted after a very long week,” said Larratt, who collected the top prize of €3,500. “I have qualified twice for the Seniors Tour via the Qualifying School but to win it is pretty special. The other two times I qualified I finished eighth but winning will give me a full playing schedule next year which is great.
“I can look forward to 2008 now and I feel I’ll be better prepared to make an impression. I have been on tour for five years and learned so much from playing with these great players.
“When you play with the likes of Torrance you can learn so much. My biggest improvement has come in my ability to keep a score going even when I am not playing at my best.”
The qualifying mark for cards fell at five over par 289 as the Seniors Qualifying School, like its European Tour equivalent just two days previously, threw up tales of joy and dread during the final round.
While English amateur players, Matt Briggs and Martin Galway, celebrated finishing in seventh and tied 14th places respectively, Sweden’s Per-Arne Brostedt was lamenting a hugely disappointing final round of 78 that saw him fall out of the running at the final hurdle.
Brostedt had began the final round in sixth place, but his seven over par fourth round effort saw him miss out on qualification by one agonising stroke.
Galway, meanwhile, held his nerve superbly under intense pressure to produce a level par 71 and join Americans Chuck Milne and Mitch Thomas, as well as South Africa’s John Mashego, as the last men to win a card on five-over-par 289.
Briggs’s last round 69 was an even more commendable effort as he moved from 16th place at the beginning of the final round to take the seventh card.
Mike Miller had a chance of making the top 14 after completing a third-round 70 early in the morning but he fell away to a final round of 79 for 287.
Anglo-Scot Bill McColl finished on 295 although finishing with his best round of the four - a 72.
Dundee's Steve Martin made the third-round cut easily enough with scores of 73, 75 and 73 but he retired during the final round. He did not give an explanation to the Seniors Tour official.
Duncan Williamson from Cambuslang failed to survive the third-round cut with scores of 76, 79 and 75 for 17-over-par 230.

FINAL TOTALS
+Players with totals of 289 or better gained players' cards for 2008.
Par 284 (4 x 71)
281 Bob Larratt (Eng) 67 73 70 71.
283 John Hoskison (Eng) 71 67 71 74, Ian Mosey (Eng) 72 72 69 71, Jeff Hall (Eng) 68 74 71 71, Jimmy Heggarty (NIr) 72 69 72 71, Angel Franco (Par) 70 72 68 74.
286 Matt Briggs (Eng) (am) 74 75 68 69, Tim Rastall (Eng) 72 68 71 75.
287 Tony Price (Wal) 72 73 73 69, Alfonso Barrera (Arg) 73 73 71 70, Torsten Giedeon(Ger) 74 69 73 71; Jean Pierre Sallat (Fra) 74 73 68 72.
288 Mark Johnson (US) 72 72 75 69.
289 Martin Galway (Eng) (am) 73 73 72 71, Mitch Thomas (US) 71 71 74 73, John Mashego (SAf) 68 73 72 76, Chuck Milne (US) 71 67 73 78.
DID NOT QUALIFY
290 Andy Bownes (Eng) 73 75 70 72, Antonio Ortiz (Arg) 73 73 72 72, Mark Fernando (US) 73 70 74 73, Hank Woodrome (US) 73 71 68 78, Per-Arne Brostedt (Swe) 72 72 68 78.
292 John Benda (US) 75 74 72 71, Bill Hardwick (Can ) 73 74 70 75, Anthony McLure (Eng) (am) 76 70 71 75.
293 Bertus Smit (SAf) 71 70 78 74, Richard A Green (Eng) 73 70 73 77, Armando Saavedra(Arg) 73 71 74 75, Terry Dill (US) 73 69 76 75, Graham Banister (Aus) 70 75 72 76;
294 Juan Anglada (Spa) 74 73 74 73, Mitch Kierstenson (Eng) 73 73 74 74, Graham Gunn (Can) 76 73 70 75, Jose Luis Gallardo (Spa) 73 73 73 75, Donald Stirling (Eng) 72 74 71 77.
295 Bill McColl (Sco ) 74 74 75 72, Doug Young (Eng) 78 70 75 72, Jim Lapsley (NZ) 73 72 74 76.
296 Malcolm Edmunds (Wal) 75 72 73 76, Anders Johnsson (Swe) 75 74 73 74, Mike Gallagher(Eng) 77 71 71 77, Per Andersson (Swe ) 75 76 71 74, Brian Evans (Eng) 74 75 72 75.
297 Mike Miller (Sco ) 77 71 70 79, Richard Masters (Eng) 73 75 72 77.
298 José Davila (Spa) 76 75 68 79, Ossie Moore (Aus) 79 76 69 74.
300 Stewart Graham (Eng) 79 70 74 77.
303 Derek Hammett (US) 70 77 77 79.
MISSED THIRD-ROUND CUT
230 Duncan Williamson (Sco) 76 79 75.
Retired: Steve Martin (Sco ) 73 75 73 -, Steve Stull (US) 76 74 71 -.