Canberra’s Matthew Millar superbly kept alive a goal of ending a nine-year absence to re-join the European Tour by making the all-important four-round cut in the six round European Tour’s Qualifying School in Spain.

Millar, 41 ended the round with a three-under par 68 for an eight-under tally to be sharing 15th and more importantly 10 places inside the leading 25 who, at the end of Thursday’s final round on Lumine Golf Club course at Tarragona, will secure full Tour membership.

By making the cut, Millar and fellow Aussie Ashley Hall and sharing 59^th place, are guaranteed a place on the secondary Challenge Tour but each will be striving for more.

Millar began with a poor first day 74 but regrouped in Sunday’s second round signing for a 67 before adding a 67 on Monday.

He got his fourth day’s effort off to a flyer with a hat-trick of birdies and then also birdied the fifth.

Millar, however, then doubled the par four 13^th and dropped a shot at the next before regrouping with birdies at 16 and the last.

The effort superbly boosted Millar’s goal of returning to the European Tour for a first time since the 2009 season.

Since then Millar has contested just 16 Tour sanctioned events, among them three this season, but teeing-up in each as a member of the Australasian Tour.

The very affable Wollongong-born Millar, who is attached to the Gold Creek Country Club in the nation’s capital, trails only seven shots behind England’s Sam Horsfield who heads the field by a shot at 15-under par.

Joining Millar in making the four-round cut was 20-year old Queenslander Jack Munro who birdied his last hole in a 69 and after earlier scores of 71, 69 and 71 to be sharing 35^th place at six-under par.

Munro headed to Spain with a best finish this PGA of Australasia season of T5th in May’s WA PGA Championship.

And towering Melbourne golfer Ashley Hall also birdied his last hole in a score 71 and with the recently-turned 34 year old having posted earlier scores of 73, 69 and 70  to make the cut by two shots at three-under par.

Unfortunately, Matthew Giles, and who was third in the recent Fiji International, bogeyed his last hole in a round of 72 to miss the 284 cut by just a shot.

Also cut from the last two rounds was  three-time Tour winner Richard Green (286) along with Dimitrious Papadatos (287) Adam Blyth (288), Nick Cullen (290) and Todd Sinnott (294),

Former Australian PGA winner Nathan Holman withdrew after two rounds with scores of 78 and 75 while Melbourne-based Korean Jin Jong pulled the plug on day three at 12-over.

Some big-name European Tour stars were cut from the final two days was Argentina’s Ricardo Gonzalez, Swede Michael Jonzon, South African Henni Otto and the European Ryder Cup stars Oliver Wilson and Niclas Fasth.