Matthew Richardson lets US Tour chance
slip with final round of 76

Long-time leader Harrizon Frazar, the man who shot a 59 in his fourth round, finished up winning the US PGA Tour Final Qualifying School at La Quinta, California by eight strokes over the marathon six rounds. He had a 32 under par total of 400, finished ahead of Australian James Nitties and Derek Fathauer on 408.
In all the leading 28 won their US Tour players' cards for 209 - those finished with totals of 413 or better.
Matt Richardson, the only Britain to make it through to the Final Q School, needed a very good final round to have a chance of making the elite - but he went the opposite way. A 76, by far his worst of the six, relegated him to joint 97th place on 424.
Former Major winner Mark Brooks finished behind Richardson in joint 115th place on 426.

THOSE WHO EARNED PLAYING RIGHTS
Par 432
400 Harrison Frazar 69 64 72 59 69 67.
408 James Nitties (Australia) 69 63 69 70 67 70, Derek Fathauer 70 69 65 67 67 70.
409 Chris Stroud 69 69 72 66 677 66, John Huston 74 69 65 65 68 68.
410 Robert Garrigus 69 64 71 70 68 68.
411 David Berganio jun 72 66 71 69 68 65, Webb Simpson 69 68 68 70 69 67, James Oh 71 63 70 70 69 68, Glen Day 70 67 64 70 70 70.
Other successful totals:
412 Matthew Butchert, Jason Duffner, Troy Kelly, Tyler Aldridge, Gary Woodland, Notah Begay III.
413 Brian Vranesin, Y E Yang, Leif Olson, Aaron Watkns, Ted Purdy, Kent Jones, Bob Heintz, Chris Riley, Mathias Gronberg, Jay Williamson, Will Collins.
THOSE WHO JUST FAILED
414 Kris Coz, Garrett Willis, Bryce Molder.
415 Dustin White, Jason Gore.
Other selected totals:
424 Matthew Richardson (Eng) 67 74 65 73 69 76 (jt 97th).
426 Mark Brooks 66 69 70 72 76 73 (jt 115th).

TODAY'S TALKING POINT

If the US PGA Tour Qualifying School - and the European Tour equivalent - are so important that it is thought necessary to stage them over six rounds, why isn't the Open championship, and the other Majors, also played over 108 holes instead of just 72?