Peter Smith, Fraser Mann among
Scots at Senior Q School
By STEVE TODD
European Senior Tour Press OfficerA place on the 2011 European Senior Tour alongside some of golf’s greatest names will be the target when 76 players contest this year Senior Tour Qualifying School Final on Portugal’s Algarve.
Joining the 13 players who were exempt for Final Stage are the 63 players who made it through First Stage last Thursday and Friday – 33 from Silves, led by Venezuela’s Luis Soto, and 30 from Gramacho led by American Tim Thelen.
Starting on Monday, they will battle it out over a third course at Pestana Golf Resort, Vale da Pinta, which has hosted Final Stage since 2001.
There will be a minimum of 14 cards available for the 2011 Senior Tour, with positions 1-6 earning full playing privileges for the new season in category six.
Among those targeting a return to the Senior Tour are 2008 winner Jimmy Heggarty, former European Tour Champion Stephen Bennett, World Cup winner Torsten Giedeon and 2004 Senior Open Champion Pete Oakley.
Oakley was one of the 20 players to gain playing privileges 12 months ago when he finished eighth.
Previous winners of the Senior Tour Qualifying School include Argentine Horacio Carbonetti (2002), winner of the Bad Ragaz PGA Seniors Open in 2003 and 2004 who finished runner up in the Sicilian Senior Open last month, and Stewart Ginn (2005), winner of the 2008 Azores Senior Open. Last year it was Englishman John Harrison who topped the class of graduates.
SCOTSWATCH: There are eight Scots in the field including two former Northern Open champions in former Ballater club pro Fraser Mann, who made it to the over-50s tour through the qualifying process 12 months ago, and Udy-born Peter Smith, son of a former Highland League footballer, who came through Stage 1 qualifying last week.
Terry Burgoyne, Alabert Mackenzie, Alan Hemsley and Ian Dougan also won their places in this coming week's field via last week's Stage 1 process.
Then there is former Scotland amateur international Mike Miller and Austria-based Gordon Manson who were excempt from Stage 1.
Steve Todd
Press Officer
Scots at Senior Q School
By STEVE TODD
European Senior Tour Press OfficerA place on the 2011 European Senior Tour alongside some of golf’s greatest names will be the target when 76 players contest this year Senior Tour Qualifying School Final on Portugal’s Algarve.
Joining the 13 players who were exempt for Final Stage are the 63 players who made it through First Stage last Thursday and Friday – 33 from Silves, led by Venezuela’s Luis Soto, and 30 from Gramacho led by American Tim Thelen.
Starting on Monday, they will battle it out over a third course at Pestana Golf Resort, Vale da Pinta, which has hosted Final Stage since 2001.
There will be a minimum of 14 cards available for the 2011 Senior Tour, with positions 1-6 earning full playing privileges for the new season in category six.
Among those targeting a return to the Senior Tour are 2008 winner Jimmy Heggarty, former European Tour Champion Stephen Bennett, World Cup winner Torsten Giedeon and 2004 Senior Open Champion Pete Oakley.
Oakley was one of the 20 players to gain playing privileges 12 months ago when he finished eighth.
Previous winners of the Senior Tour Qualifying School include Argentine Horacio Carbonetti (2002), winner of the Bad Ragaz PGA Seniors Open in 2003 and 2004 who finished runner up in the Sicilian Senior Open last month, and Stewart Ginn (2005), winner of the 2008 Azores Senior Open. Last year it was Englishman John Harrison who topped the class of graduates.
SCOTSWATCH: There are eight Scots in the field including two former Northern Open champions in former Ballater club pro Fraser Mann, who made it to the over-50s tour through the qualifying process 12 months ago, and Udy-born Peter Smith, son of a former Highland League footballer, who came through Stage 1 qualifying last week.
Terry Burgoyne, Alabert Mackenzie, Alan Hemsley and Ian Dougan also won their places in this coming week's field via last week's Stage 1 process.
Then there is former Scotland amateur international Mike Miller and Austria-based Gordon Manson who were excempt from Stage 1.
Steve Todd
Press Officer
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