Scottish Trio Entered Next Week’s 2025 Asian Tour Final Qualifying.

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The Scottish trio of David Drysdale, Marc Warren and Ollie Roberts will tee-up among 208 players competing from December 17th to 21st on the host Lake View Resort and Golf Club (A & B Course) & Lake View Resort and Golf Club (C & D Course) at Hau Hin in Thailand and looking to earn 2025 Asian Tour membership.

The goal for the trio will be to finish amoung the leading 35 that will gain their Asian Tour card.

Drysdale is teeing-up for a second time in three years after successfully securing his Asian Tour for the 2023 season but struggling this past season to finish 124th in this year’s 2024 Order of Merit and outside the top-65 who retained their ‘card’ for 2025.

However the Drysdale’s, and with wife/caddy Vicky by his side, will tee-up at Hau Hin with fond memories of two years ago when ‘Double D’, as Drysdale is affectionately known, holed a four-foot birdie putt at the 90th hole on day five and the final round of the Asian Tour Q-School.

And after rounds 69, 69, 68, 73 and a closing 67, where he landed a superb gap-wedge second at the par-4 ninth hole, that he was playing as his last to just four-feet, Drysdale stepped-up to hole the birdie putt.  It was among six birdies over his closing round that officially handed the proud Scot 29th place at the Q-School, and with leading 35 exempt for the 2023 Asian Tour season.

Of course, Drysdale is also reccently coming off his gallant effort of last week in seeking to qualify for the Champions Tour but with a paltry five places on offer after the effort and expenses of hundreds, like Drysdale and compatriot Stevie Gallacher, who had teed-up at two venues in the lead-up to hopefully seeking to earn a Champions Tour membership card.

Fellow Scot Warren is a four-time DP World Tour winner while the Glaswegian has won three times on the secondary Challenge Tour however the past few years have been tough for the now 43-year-old contesting just six DP World Tour events this past year but making the halfway cut in just two.

Warren also competed in 15 events on the secondary Challenge Tour but played all four rounds in just five events.

Roberts, 32 was born in London and with his Scottish parents relocating to Hong Kong where still lives while he’s attached to the famed Macau Golf and Country Club.

He contested just two Asian Tour events this year, each in Macua but missed the cut in both.

Some of the other name players teeing-up include the former DP World Tour Irish duo of Paul Dunne and Niall Kearney, Spain’s Alejandro Canizares and Aussie Marcus Fraser.

Fraser, 46 is a two-time Asian Tour winner capturing the 2020 Ballantine’s Championship and the 2016 Maybank Malaysian Open title.



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