D-Day beckons at Q-School First Stage

The final round of The European Tour’s Qualifying School First Stage – Section A beckons for the 102 players who survived the third round cut at both the Roxburghe Hotel and Golf Course and Golfclub Schloss Ebreichsdorf.

With the top 17 players (and ties) in Scotland and the top 22 players (and ties) in Austria surviving until at least the next Stage of the Qualifying School Marathon, all that matters to the 102 third round survivors is the score required to keep the dream of playing on The European Tour alive.

With such stakes on the line, the final round of any Stage of the Qualifying School is among the most pressure-filled moments in any player’s career.

The men feeling the most pressure tomorrow at the Roxburghe will be the 15 players who are either on or one shot either side of the current qualifying mark of one over par; while there are 17 men in the same position at Golfclub Schloss Ebreichsdorf, where the current mark in six under par.