Scotland’s Graeme Robertson is one of 13 Scots in a field over just over 300 players teeing-up later this week in Spain at the second stage of qualifing as players seek to earn full 2025 DP World Tour membership.
The top-75 players after four rounds will then remain in Spain for the following week’s – November 8th to 13th – six round final stage of qualifying and, if among the leading 25 after what will be 10 rounds of competition in 14 days, will earn their 2025 DPWT card.
Last week, the 36-year-old Robertson travelled to Bermuda to contest the Goslings Invitational, an amateur/professional event that has been running since 2011 but not expecting his brilliant reward.
Scot Graeme Robertson with his Goslings Invitational trophy.
Along with an $11,000 first prize cheque Robertson sensationally earned a prize tee-time in the November 14th commencing PGA Tour’s Butterfield Bermuda Championship that carries a prize fund of $6.9m and, if successful, a two-year PGA Tour membership card.
Robertson said at the time of his victory: “Obviously the PGA Tour was a big incentive to why I came here to Bermuda.
“To come to Bermuda again and win it, it’ll be a dream come true, so I’m looking forward to it. I’m going off to Spain to play and, once that finishes, I’ll be back here to play in the Butterfield Bermuda Championship. It’ll be an exciting few weeks for me.”
However, it seems clear Robertson may not have been fully aware of the constraints of wishing to compete on opposite sides of the globe with not one day to spare between the end of the Spanish event on one side of the globe and the commencement to the tournament in Bermuda.
What I am saying is if you take Robertson’s quotes on board and should he make it through this week’s DPWT second stage and into final qualifying next week, and then fights his way into the last two rounds, and with the final day of those two rounds being Wednesday 13th November, how is going to be able to be in Bermuda the next morning on Thursday 14th November in time to tee-up in a first PGA Tour event?
Please do advise if I’ve got this wrong.
