Which players earned DP World Tour cards at Q-school?
33 players survived six long rounds at Infinitum to secure their DP World Tour cards for 2024, so who are they?
It’s over. The 108 holes of the DP World Tour’s final stage of Q-school are done.
There was agony, but ecstasy for 33 players who battled through six rounds at Infinitum in Spain to secure their futures on Europe’s biggest stage in 2024.
22-year-old Freddy Schott shone brightest on 27-under-par on Wednesday evening, capping off a fine final-round 65 with an 18th-hole eagle.
The German was 144th in the Race to Dubai in 2023, but he’ll have the chance to do it all over again with a year of experience in the locker.
“Even though I loved every single bit of it, I wouldn’t mind not coming back! It’s an unbelievable week. It’s more like a test really, for us dropping down,” he told NCG
“I felt like you get more chances here than you get on tour. You have so many wedges with more accessible pins. There are still so many good guys out here, guys who lost their cards who should never have lost them.
“For the guys dropping down from the DP World Tour, it’s much more of a test to get your mind right and your head right for the week, because you can score here.”
Former Open Silver Medal winner Filippo Celli finished two shots further back to secure his 2024 card, while fellow previous low amateur Tom Lewis finished in tied for sixth too.
Freddy Schott eagled the last to secure a dramatic victory @infinitumresort 🦅#DPWTQSchool pic.twitter.com/qcnGOVB2UK
— DP World Tour Q-School (@DPWTQSchool) November 15, 2023
The Englishman shot an incredible 61 in round four to propel himself into contention and the two-time DP World Tour winner followed this with a 67 and a 65.
“Today was a good round. I said to my caddie Callum that I wanted to shoot eight-under-par through the last two rounds and to have done 10-under-par is great.
“It’s a course you can make some birdies on and also make some bogeys. I knew as long as I drove the ball well and kept it in play, I was going to get some chances and I put a lot of work in on my putting this week, which has been a big Achilles heal for me this year and, this week, I just did a little bit better and that made the difference.”
Two-time DP World Tour winner Renato Paratore advanced to the next year by finishing in tied 11th alongside Welshman Jack Davidson and South African Jacob Kruyswijk.
The experienced Kiradech Aphibarnrat, who’s previously recorded top-15 finishes at the Masters and the US Open, shot a superb 64 to surge 19 places up the leaderboard to 18-under-par to keep his card for next term.
The 34-year-old, a four-time winner on the circuit, qualified through Q-school last year too.
“I just tried to bring all of my experience in playing today,” Aphibarnrat told NCG.
“Everyone was going to get nervous in the last couple of holes and there was one more round to earn a card for the whole year – it made it quite difficult.
“But I really controlled myself well. I stayed patient and calm and I’m really happy with the result – I feel great with the way I am playing.”
Young Yorkshire amateur Josh Berry made the grade at the ripe age of 18 on 15-under-par with former Amateur champion Garrick Porteous and Jon Rahm’s old college roommate Nicolo Galletti.
There were 12 players tied for 22nd place on the leaderboard on 14-under-par occupying the last spots, including two-time tour winner Kristoffer Broberg, Wales’ Rhys Enoch and social media sensation James Nicholas.
Nicholas, a 26-year-old American, has over 375,000 followers on TikTok and is also set to play in the second stage of PGA Tour Q-school at the end of November.
“Really solid,” Nicholas said to NCG. “I’ve never played a six-round tournament, so to come out here and stay in it for the entire tournament, not get too far ahead of myself and just give myself a chance coming down the stretch was really what I was trying to do from day one.
“I played really well today. I wish I had a couple of shots back, especially that up-and-down on the second-to-last hole, but that’s golf! You’re always going to wish you had a couple of shots back. I missed a two-footer on day three, it’s just tough.”
Every player to earn a DP World Tour card at Q-school:
Freddy Schott
Filippo Celli
Sebastian Friedrichsen
Darius van Driel
Matthis Besard
Sam Jones
Tom Lewis
Sebastian Garcia
Hadyn Barron
Kristian Krogh Johannessen
Jack Davidson
Jacques Kruyswijk
Renato Paratore
Andrew Wilson
Kiradech Aphibarnrat
David Ravetto
Pieter Moolman
Garrick Porteous
Nicolo Galletti
Josh Berry
Benjamin Rusch
Johnathan Goth-Rasmussen
Kristoffer Broberg
Rhys Enoch
Darren Fichardt
Jannik de Bruyn
Pedro Figueiredo
Soren Broholt Lind
Nicolai von Dellingshausen
Lauri Ruuska
Alfredo Garcia-Heredia
Joe Dean
James Nicholas
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