Reigning Australian amateur champion Connor McKinney tops a strong contingent of 17 Aussies heading into Thursday’s starting second stage of the DP World Tour’s Q-School in Spain,
The 20-year-old Joondalup attached McKinney golfer brilliantly found his way into stage two by storming his way to a five-shot victory after posting a sizzling opening round score of 63 in the first stage of qualifying in September.
McKinney headed 23 on the Montado Hotel and Golf Resort course at Palmera located to the south-east of Lisbon in Portugal, and one of nine qualifying venues in eight different countries hosting the first stage.
Scottish-born Aussie Connor McKinney winning this year’s prestigious St. Andrews Links trophy (Photograph – Links Trust)
The DP World Tour Q-School is back on the calendar for a first time since 2019, and after the global Covid pandemic saw its closure in 2020 and ’21.
In July, the Scottish-born Aussie also captured the prestigious St. Andrews Links Trophy at the Home of Golf in St. Andrews.
The final stage of 2022 DP World Tour qualifying will be a torture test over six rounds, taking place a week later (November 11-16) over the Infinitum course at Tarragonga located on the Meditteranean to the south of Barcelona where the leading qualifiers will earn full 2023 DP World Tour status.
Those Aussies competing over the four Spanish host venues this week include:-
Emporda Golf, Girona. Spain
Jarrod Fenton – Gosnells GC, Canning Vale, WA
Maverick Arncliff – Beaudesert, QLD
Daniel Gale – Castle Hil GC, NSW
Blake Collyer – Metropolitan, VIC
John Lyras – St. Michaels, NSW
Isla Canela Links, Huelva, Spain
Nathan Barbieri – Monash GC, NSW
Linus Yip – Avondale, NSW
Elvis Smylie – Southport, QLD
Las Colinas G & CC, Alicante, Spain
Jordan Zunic – The Lakes, NSW
Austin Bautista – Bonnie Doon, NSW
Kyle Michel – Shepparton, VIC
Jay MacKenzie – Surfers Paradise GC, QLD
Connor McKinney – Joondalup, WA
Desert Springs GC, Almeria, Spain
Deyen Lawson – Surfers Paradise, QLD
Braden Becker – Mandurah GC, WA
Jack Thompson – The Grange, SA
Haydon Hopewell – Royal Freemantle, WA
