Five years ago this week, Spain’s very affable Alvaro Quiros muscled his way to a two-shot victory in the 2011 season-ending DP World Tour Championship in Dubai.

The Spanaird was riding the crest of a golfing wave having become the first to capture the ‘Dubai Double’ in succeeding early in the year at the Dubai Desert Classic.

His victory at the end of the season on the Earth Course at Jumeriah Estates help propel Quiros to a World Ranking high of No.21.

It was also his sixth European Tour success and with his first prize of Euro 922, 645 being the highest pay day of his then six-year pro career and taking his year’s wining in 2011 to Euro 2.6m.

Still remember vividly Spain’s Alvaro Quiros muscling his way to success in the 2011 DP World Tour Championship. (Photo – European Tour)

However in recent years it has all turned pear shape for Quiros as evident he’s had just one third place and seven  other top-10s since being handed the gleaming DP World Tour Championship trophy.

His best finish this past season was 4th in the Dubai Desert Classic but then in the 23 events Quiros contested in 2016 he played all four rounds in just seven, and in fact missed the cut in nine of his last 10 events, and with the Portugal Masters, and an event he won in 2008 after turning to using Callaway equipment, being his last paying event of 2016.

It left Quiros, and currently the World No. 559th ranked player, with no other option but to enter Q-School for a first occasion since 2006.

But to add insult to injury, Quiros has missed the four-round cut at the 2017 European Tour Q-School with scores of 68, 74, 79 and 69 and fall short with his 6-over par tally at PGA Catalunya by six shots.

Quiros, and whose wife gave birth to the couple’s first child this year and a boy they named Alvaro, now faces an uncertain 2017 but with victories in the Qatar Masters, Dubai Desert Classic and the Spanish Open, along with his very likeable personality, it’s hoped he can display the form we all know he is capable and win early in the New Year.

Besides Quiros is too good a player to be teeing-up on the secondary Challenge Tour.

Here’s wishing you good fortune in 2017, Alvaro.