FOURTEEN SCOTS FALL AT STAGE 2 HURDLE

BOOTH, STEWART, KELLETT ONLY 

SCOTS TO REACH  FINAL Q SCHOOL

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Only Comrie's Wallace Booth, Duncan Stewart (Grantown on Spey) and Motherwell man Ross Kellett (Kingsfield) of the 17 Scots entries have qualified for the European Tour Final Qualifying School over six rounds at PGA Catalunya, beginning on Saturday.
Only the leading 17 or 18 at each of the four Stage 2 venues in Spain qualified. Booth made it through in joint fifth place at El Saler with a six-under-par 282 total.
Kellett and Stewart tied for eighth place on the 16-under-par 272 mark at Panoramica.
Kellett's seven-under-par 65 was the best last-day round by a Scot - and it enabled him to improve from joint 21st overnight into the qualifying zone.
In contrast, Dunbar's Neil Fenwick, within the qualifying zone at the start of the day at Lumine, shot a two-under-par 70 in the last round but that did not stop him slipping down to joint 25th alongside George Murray on six-under 278.
Other non-qualifying Scots included Scottish amateur champion Chris Robb (Meldrum House), Northern Open champion David Law (Paul Lawrie GC), the Saltman brothers, Elliot and Lloyd, from Archerfield, and Jack Doherty, Jamie McLeary, Scott Borrowman, Scott Drummond, Raymond Russell, Alexander Culverwell and Paul Shields.
The leading 25 and ties at the end of the six-day Final Q School endurance test will gain playing rights on the 2015 Euroepan Tour. 

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EUROPEAN TOUR QUALIFYING SCHOOL
Stage 2 at four Spanish venues
LEADING FINAL TOTALS
+top 17 at El Saler, Panoramica and Lumine advance to Final Q School beginning on Saturday. Top 18 qualify from Las Colinas.

EL SALER (Valencia)
Par 288 (4x72)
277 Garry Houston (Wal) 70 71 71 65
278 Sebastian Soderberg (Swe) 73 72 65 68
279 Simon Griffiths (Eng) 72 69 69 69

SCOTS' TOTALS
282 Wallace Booth 73 68 69 72 (T5)
NON-QUALIFIERS
289 Jamie McLeary 74 73 71 71 (T24)
290 Jack Doherty 70 74 75 71 (T27)
291 Elliot Saltman 77 70 76 68 (T30)
300 David Law 71 76 71 79 (T60)

LAS COLINAS (Alicante)
Par 284 (4x71)
267 Chris Paisley (Eng) 66 66 69 66
270 Nicola Ravano (Ita) 69 68 67 66, Sam Walker (Eng) 68 63 66 75

SCOTS' TOTALS
NON-QUALIFIERS
278 Raymond Russell 68 70 71 69 (T20)
283 Alex Culverwell (am) 66 73 74 70 (T41)
284 Chris Robb 69 72 69 74 (T46)
288 Paul Shields 74 71 70 73 (T59)
294 Scott Drummond 7u4 72 71 77 (T68)

LUMINE (Tarragona)
Par 284 (4x71)
266 Ricardo Gouveia (Por) 67 64 64 71
267 Julian Kunzenbacher (Ger) 66 66 66 69

SCOTS' TOTALS
NON-QUALIFIERS
278 George Murray 71 69 70 68, Neil Fenwick 72 67 69 70 (T25)

PANORAMICA (Castellon)
Par 288 (4x72)
266 Matthew Southgate (Eng) 66 69 64 67
267 Toby Tree (Eng) 66 67 65 69

SCOTS' TOTALS
272 Ross Kellett 71 68 68 65, Duncan Stewart 75 63 67 67 (T8)
NON-QUALIFIERS
279 Doug McGuigan 68 70 71 70 (T31)
283 Lloyd Saltman 73 67 68 75, Scott Borrowman (am) 68 71 75 69 (T51).

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PLAY-OFFS PROVIDE THE REAL DRAMA

OF Q SCHOOL STAGE 2 FINAL ROUND
FROM THE EUROPEAN TOUR WEBSITE

Chris Paisley won his Second Stage event of The European Tour Qualifying School at Las Colinas Golf and Country Club with a five under par last-day round of 66, which took the Englishman to 17 under in total. 
At this Spanish venue, 18 players progressed to the Final Q School.
Those 18 spaces where hotly contested and a four man play-off ensued for the remaining three spots when Englishman Matthew Cort, Dane Christian Gloet, Australian Geoffrey Drakeford and German Sebastian Heisele all finished in tied 16^th position on seven under par.
Heisele and Gloet progressed in 16^th and 17^th place respectively, birdieing the second and third play-off holes, while it was Cort who missed out as Drakeford birdied the fourth play-off hole, capturing the last qualifying spot in the process.
In the corresponding event at Panoramica Golf and Sport Resort, Englishman Matthew Southgate leapfrogged his compatriot Toby Tree with a five under par 65 to steal first place on 22 under par. However, again the real drama unfolded lower down the leaderboard on 13 under par as a sudden death six-man playoff ensued for the remaining spaces.
After a tense battle, it was South African amateur Zander Lombard who took the 15^th spot and Dane Jeff Winther the 16^th. Gary Lockerbie then proceeded to hold his nerve to take the 17^th place with a par three on the fifth play-off hole.
Elsewhere, Welshman Gary Houston stole the show at Campo de Golf El Saler, firing a seven-under 65 to win the event.
But as with the other events, the real action came at the cut off for progression; Dane Daniel Løkke and Englishman Chris Lloyd hung on to take two of the last three qualifying places, where they were joined by Norwegian Espen Kofstad, who leaped up four positions to snatch qualification on two under par.
Meanwhile, at Lumine Golf and Beach Club, Portuguese whiz Ricardo Gouveia completed his qualifying campaign with a rock steady level par 71  to stay at 18 under and advance in the  pole position.
A quartet of four players, consisting of France’s Guillaume Cambis, Englishmen Garrick Porteous and Nathan Kimsey and American Wes Homan, all shared the last progression spaces at nine under par.
Across the four venues, a total of 69 players qualified to the six-day Final Stage which takes place at  PGA Catalunya Resort in north-east Spain  where the top 25 players plus ties will earn their playing rights for The 2015 Race to Dubai.