Thai sensation Jazz Janewattananound brilliantly eagled his 108th and final hole at the European Tour Q-School to secure his main European Tour card.
Jazz celebrated his up-coming 22nd birthday (Nov 26th) with the eagle ‘3’ putting him into a nine-way share of 25th place and the cut-off point for automatic 2018 European Tour membership.
Jazz Janewattananoud secures his European Tour card at a 1st attempt. (Photo – www.golfbytourmiss.com)
“I am so happy to have snuck in. I was having a bit of a bad day and was struggling a little bit over the back nine, I made a double-bogey on the 15th and I almost gave up at that point,” he said.
“I held it together until the last hole though, and I just thought ‘I can only try my best here’. To see the ball go into the hole after my chip was amazing and it is still going through my mind now – I can’t believe I made an eagle to get in on the mark.
“The European Tour gave a few spots to the Asian Tour for players to come over and play in Final Stage so I have to say a huge thank you to both Tours.”
The young Thai golfer, who had finished a brilliant second in August’s Fiji International, will now tee-up in next week’s UBS Hong Kong Open a full European Tour member even though he had been already afforded an invitation into the co-sanctioned event at the famed Hong Kong Golf Club.
Jazz had slipped outside of the top-25 when he bogeyed the 13th hole on the Lumine course at Tarragona in Spain and then looked to have spoiled all hopes of attaining his Tour card when he doubled the par four 15th,
He then came to the 18th no doubt with some thoughts of taking a triple bogey ‘7’ at the hole a day earlier.
But then to his enormous delight he brilliantly buried any lingering demons with his eagle ‘3’ at the reachable par five 18th.
In fact, his was one of 10 eagles on the final hole including Kiwi Josh Geary and Italian Andrea Pavan who Jazz will be teeing-up alongside in 2018.
