A LOT AT STAKE FOR 31 SCOTS PLAYING FOR THEIR IMMEDIATE FUTURES

TARTAN ARMY LINES UP IN EUROPR0 TOUR FINAL Q SCHOOL FIELD OF 240

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Scottishgolfview.com
A total of 31 Scots are in the huge field of 240 players who will tee off tomorrow (Wednesday) in the PGA EuroPro Tour Final Qualifying School over 54 holes and three days at Frilford Heath Golf Club, Oxfordshire.
There are cash prizes ranging from £2,400 to the winner down to £480 for the player who finishes 15th but the first target for players like Paul Lawrie's son Craig (pictured above), Inchmarlo's Paul Cormack, who excelled at one of the Stage 1 venues last week, and Ellon's Ross Cameron, to mention just three apirants,  is to make the cut which shrinks the field to 80 qualifiers for the final 18 holes.
If a player can do that then he will have a ranking for the £600,000 EuroPro Tour in 2014 when each of 15 three-round events will have a  jackpot prize of £10,000.
The higher the ranking, the more competitions a player will get into.
Another incentive is to make the top five in the Tour's Order of Merit at the end of the season. That will gain automatic promotion to the 2015 Challenge Tour.
So there is much at stake over the next three days for a lot of young hopefuls who will have to conquer their nerves as well as the Frilford Heath courses to survive.
The Scots in the field are:
Ross Bell, Sam Binning, Andrew Borg, Graeme Brown, Ross Cameron, Paul Cormack, Scott Crichton, Chris Currie, Jordan Findlay, Graham Forbes, Graham Guthrie, Neil Henderson, James Hendrick, John Henry, Scott Herald, Mark Hillson, Malcolm Isaacs, Ross Kellett, Mark Kerr, Craig Lawrie, Greg McBain, Jordan McColl, Fraser McKenna, Kris Nicol, Conor O'Neil, Eric Ramsay, Mark Rae, Graham Rankin, Robert Reynolds, Paul Robinson, Callum Trahan.

All competitors will play one round on each the Red Course and the Blue Course on alternate days, after which the field will be cut to the leading 80 players and ties who will play a final round on the Blue Course on Friday.
To view the tee times, click on the underlined courses:

Round One Tee Times: Red Course | Blue Course
 
Round Two Tee Times: Red Course | Blue Course