Wallace Booth, Lee Harper through to Asian

Tour Final Q, but Barry Hume eliminated

Comrie rookie pro Wallace Booth, a Walker Cup team player last season, and Lee Harper (Archerfield Links), the 1999 Scottish boys' match-play champion from Musselburgh, squeezed through to next week's Asian Tour Qualifying School Final Stage tournament at Palm Hills G&CC with little or nothing to spare at the Majestic Creek venue, Hua Hin near Bangkok, Thailand today as the Stage 1 Week 2 eliminators at three courses in all came to an end.
Booth, 24, pictured by Cal Carson Golf Agency, whose 16-year-old sister Carly has earned playing rights on the 2010 Ladies European Tour at the first attempt while he failed to make it through the European Tour Qualifying process, finally came good with that stamp of a class player - a three-under-par 68 in the final round when he was under the utmost pressure to perform.
Wallace, who won the Scottish Under-16 boys' stroke play title in 2000 and the Scottish men's open amateur stroke-play title in in 2008, finished on four-under-par 280 with rounds of 69, 73, 70 and 68.
The leading 25 players with totals of 281 or better qualified for next week's decider and Lee Harper got through by the skin of the tee after a final round of one-over-par 72 - his worst of the four - left him sweating it out. Harper's earlier rounds were 68, 71 and 70.
But there was one Scottish "casualty," Glasgow's Barry Hume, who played on the Asian Tour previously for a couple of seasons before losing his card.

Hume, the 2001 Scottish men's amateur match-play champion and the 2002 Scottish men's open amateur stroke-play title winner, peaked with a 66 in the second round in Thailand but then two closing rounds of 74 - six over par for the final 36 holes - gave him an aggregate of 286 - five shots over the limit mark.
What a pity that a player with as much natural talent as Hume once again finds himself without a tour on which to earn a living. Barry is not yet 30 ... but the clock is ticking.
A total of 58 players qualified today for the Asian Tour Qualifying School Final Stage and they will join the previous week's qualifiers and also exempt players in the four-day test, beginning on Wednesday.
Top qualifier at the par-71 Majestic Creek venue was Matthew Rosenfeld of the United States. He fired a final round four-under-par 67 for an 18-under-par 266..
Eltoro Sjoholm of Sweden also posted a 67 to end in second place on a 269 total while Lorenzo Magini of Italy and Gabriel Canizares of Spain took a share of third position on 270.
At Kaeng Krachan Country Club and Resort, Peter Karmis of South Africa led 18 players into the Final Stage. The South African carded a three-under-par 69 for a 17-under-par 271 total. Brad Smith of Australia and Alessio Bruschi of Italy finished seven strokes behind on 278.
England's Zane Scotland, for whom a bright future was predicted at a much earlier stage of his career, finished one shot above the limit mark of 288 at Kaeng Krachan, although he made a brave effort on the final day, shooting a 69 over the only par-72 course used.
Japanese player Senroku Isa registered a final round one-under-par 70 to claim top spot at the Rayong Country Club. His total of 14-under-par 270 was five strokes better than second placed Rohan Blizard of Ausralia who shot a 66 for a 275 total.
American duo Jason Kang and David Johnson finished in third position on 278.
LEADING FINAL TOTALS
MAJESTIC CREEK
Par 284 (4x71)
25 players with totals of 281 or better qualified.
266 Matthew Rosenfeld (US) 66 67 66 67.
269 Eltoro Sjoholm (Swe) 70 65 67 67.
270 Lorenzo Magini (Ita) 68 69 67 66, Gabriel Canizares (Spa) 64 66 70 70.
Selected qualifiers:
280 Wallace Booth (Sco) 69 73 70 68 (jt 16th).
281 Lee Harper (Sco) 68 71 70 72 (jt 21st).
FAILED NOT QUALIFY
283 Chris Gill (Eng) 69 73 74 67, Dale Marmion (Eng) 69 71 72 71.
284 Brett Taylor (Eng) 70 71 71 72.
286 Barry Hume (Sco) 72 66 74 74.
288 Haminder Matharu (Eng) 72 70 72 74, James Horn (Eng) 71 69 74 74.
297 Adam Mason (Eng) 72 76 78 71.
RAYONG
Par 284 (4x71)
14 players with totals of 283 or better qualified
270 Senroku Isa (Jap) 66 70 67 70.
275 Rohan Blizard (Aus) 69 70 70 66.
278 Jason Kang (US) 73 69 66 70, David Johnson (US) 70 69 67 72.
Selected qualifiers:
281 Neil Chaudhuri (Eng) 72 72 66 71 (jt 9th).
282 Richard Wallis (Eng) 73 69 70 70 (13th).
FAILED TO QUALIFY
284 James Sheffield (Eng) 70 73 72 69.
287 Kevin Tilbury (Eng) 78 70 70 69, Craig Smith (Wal) 73 69 71 74.
291 Kieran Staunton (Eng) 74 71 77 69.
292 Ian Ridgway (Eng) 73 69 71 79.
293 Ben Stafford (Eng) 69 76 75 73, Larry Batchelor (Eng) 75 75 73 70.
294 Lloyd Campbell (Eng) 73 76 69 76.
295 Mark Wilkinson (Eng) 73 78 69 75, Laurence Warne (Eng) (am) 72 73 77 73.
296 Darren Robson (Eng) 73 77 77 69.
297 Ben Jones (Eng) 80 75 69 73.

KAENG KRACHAN

Par 288 (4x72)

19 players with totals of 288 or better qualified.

271 Peter Karmis (SAf) 69 66 69 69.

278 Brad Smith (Aus) 68 73 72 65, Alessio Bruschi (Ita) 73 70 66 71.

281 Creighton Honeck (US) 75 65 65 76.

Selected qualifiers:

283 Scott Arnold (Aus) 71 72 71 69, Sam Osbourne (Eng) 69 69 68 77.

284 Tim Sluiter (Net) 74 69 71 70.

FAILED TO QUALIFY

289 Zane Scotland (Eng) 70 74 76 69.

305 Mike Bolsover (Eng) 81 74 73 77.

307 Davyd Reeves (Eng) 78 78 73 78, Charles Tetlow (Eng) 75 84 71 77.

330 Benjamin Tetlow (Eng) (am) 85 80 85 80.

Disqualified - Lee Nash (Eng) 76 71 74 dq

+The Asian Tour Final Qualifying School will be contested by a field of no more than 240 players over 72 holes at Palm Hills Golf Club & Residence and Springfield Village Golf & Spa, Petchburi, Thailand, starting on Wednesday, January 13 and ending on Saturday, January 16.

The field will be cut to the leading 100 players and ties after 36 holes. After four rounds, the leading 40 and ties will be ranked Category 14 for the 2010 Asian Tour.

+All the players who entered the Asian Tour Qualifying School had to pay US$1,500.