The Englishman Tom Murray will forever remember his mistake in the final phase of the European Tour Qualifying School, which is being played at Lumine Golf during these days. The 28-year-old English player, ranked 369th in the world, has made a big blunder that has earned him his disqualification from the tournament in which the best classified players will get the card that will entitle them to play on the European Tour.
Murray was well positioned to try to win his card after recording 66 and 70 strokes in the two of the six rounds that make up the Q-School final, but he made a glaring error: he signed an incorrect card.
The total stroke score was fine, as he shot 70 in the second round, but he had mistakenly recorded the scores of two holes during the round: on one he scored one stroke more and on the other, one less, which balanced the total.
“Totally my fault, but still awful. Tough end to the season, but I’ll come back stronger,” Murray wrote on Twitter. “First time I haven’t checked hole-by-hole scores – lesson learned.”
The English player has not been lucky this year, since a few weeks ago he entered the final tournament of the Challenge Tour season ranked fifteenth, and if he maintained that position or improved it he would get the European Tour card, but things went wrong and he did not achieve his goal. Murray was beaten in the overall season ranking by a margin of only 604 euros by Pedro Figueiredo, who won the fifteenth card at stake.
Leave a Reply