MARTIN LAIRD BLOWS HIS CHANCE IN
SIXTH AND FINAL ROUND OF Q SCHOOL

Martin Laird's bid to win the right to play on next year's US PGA Tour ended with a disastrous final round of four-over-par 76 for a total of 430 in the Final Qualifying School at La Quinta, California today (Monday, USA time).
It was easily his worst round of the six. He had earlier scored 73, 70, 70, 70 and 71. That 76 put him in joint 65th place - he had started the day in a share of 39th place - with the leaders still to finish.
The 6ft 2in Scot had obviously no chance of making the top 30 who would gain players' cards at the end of the sixth round.
The former Scottish youths champion from Glasgow and a four-year golf scholarship student at Colorado University bogeyed the first hole and then ran up back-to-back double bogeys at the short sixth and the par-4 seventh.
A birdie at the long eighth got him out in 40. He birdied the 11th and 15th on the inward journey but cancelled those gains out with bogeys at the 12th and 18th.
Germany's Alex Cejka looked like being successful. He had a good last round of 68 to move up from 39th equal to 24th equal.
American Duffy Waldorf dropped down to a share of 52nd place with a closing 74.

EARLY RETURNS
422 Alex Cejka (Ger) 74 70 66 73 71 68 (jt 24th).
428 Duffy Waldorf (US) 75 68 73 69 69 74 (jt 52nd).
430 Martin Laird (Sco) 73 70 70 70 71 76 (jt 65th).
+We'll be back at breakfast time with an end-of-tournament summary and a complete scoreboard.