Josh Berry was back at DP World Tour Q School after his debut season in Europe in 2024.
The teenager from Doncaster, Yorkshire, was forgiven for a year of predominantly disappointing results, considering he earned his tour card at Q School in Infinitum 12 months before as an 18-year-old amateur.
Berry made 17 starts on the DP World Tour in 2024. He made two top-30 finishes, but it was a season dominated by missed cuts. He performed better on the Challenge Tour (the Hotel Planner Tour), making six top-25 finishes.
After coming through the second stage of Q School at the end of the season, Berry found himself back in Tarragona like in 2023 where he played sublimely and beyond his years. He shot a final-round 63 on the Hills Course at Infinitum to earn his card again for 2025.
This season, Berry is also playing on the Hotel Planner Tour where he made more headlines by shooting a 10-under-par course record in the second round of the Kolkata Challenge at Royal Calcutta Golf Club.
He went on to win the event in a playoff. He came second the week after in the Delhi Challenge and then came tied for sixth at the Hero Indian Open on the DP World Tour, at the treacherous DLF Golf and Country Club.
Shortly before his first win of 2024, Berry’s four-part documentary Making the Cut was released in partnership with Travis Mathew, which tracked Berry’s rookie season on the DP World Tour in 2024.
You can find the series HERE.
“I think when I got told of the opportunity that they wanted to do the documentary of me, I thought it was a good opportunity to learn to speak in front of a camera because I look at people like Rory and Scheffler and how well spoken they are,” he told NCG.
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“You can’t be that well spoken without all the practice and learning. It’s great for people to see the story, and it’s good for me to look back in 20 years’ time or the end of playing and see how I’ve evolved.
“I had a taste for it in 2023 (the DP World Tour) when I got an invite to the Czech Masters, and I went there with my coach. I played pretty solidly. I shot level through two rounds and had a really fun moment on 16 – I hit it in the water on a par 3 and then made a hole-in-one to make par with my second ball!
“I had a really good taster for it then. Seeing Luke Donald and Ludvig Aberg on the range as it was a Ryder Cup year – all the top guys were playing. And then, so because I played solid golf, I had it in the back of my mind that you’ve got to believe in yourself.
“I knew I had the game, I played well to get there and going to Q Schoolm playing pretty well, and then when you get on tour, the standard is just so high. People don’t really understand it. It’s hard to explain how good they are, because of how hard they set the course up. It was just a case of learning and seeing the level that I’ve got to get to and planning my way there and getting better every day.”
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Berry also spoke to NCG at Q School in Spain shortly after he earned his first DP World Tour card in 2023, finishing 15-under par through six gruelling rounds.
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“It was quite breezy today, and I didn’t quite strike the ball as well as I have been,” he told NCG in Spain when reflecting on that penultimate round. “I grinded away and it just wasn’t today.
“It’s been a great experience just to mix in with the professionals and play some good golf, so it’s been really good and I’ve really enjoyed it.
“I played well in second stage, so I knew my game was good enough. But yeah, I got off to a really nice start on the first day (of final stage) by shooting four-under-par and I’ve kept it going and I’ve had the momentum.”
Infinitum has agreed a three-year deal with the DP World Tour to continue their successful and long-standing hosting of the famous Qualifying School Final Stage through to 2027.
The new deal will mean that Infintum’s renowned Lakes and Hills courses will play host to the DP World Tour’s six-round marathon tournament for nine successive years, and the three-year extension will coincide with large-scale enhancement and redevelopment of the stunning Hills layout.
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