{"id":21626,"date":"2016-11-18T11:21:24","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T11:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/successful-end-to-long-qualifying-journey\/"},"modified":"2016-11-18T11:21:24","modified_gmt":"2016-11-18T11:21:24","slug":"successful-end-to-long-qualifying-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/successful-end-to-long-qualifying-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"Successful End to Long Qualifying Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nathan Kimsey had to play a total of 252 holes in his quest for a European Tour card. The 23-year-old Englishman became only the second player in history – after Oskar Henningsson in 2008 – to come through the First and Second Stage of the Qualifying School then win the Final Stage, played this week at the PGA Catalunya Resort. <\/p>\n

He carded a final-round 70 for a 13-under total over the six days of final competition, as the<\/p>\n

top 25 finishers and ties won their cards, including Edoardo Molinari and Y. E. Yang, the first major winner to compete at Q-School. E. Yang, the first major winner to compete at Q-School. Just as pleased with their week’s work, during a year when Henrik Stenson became the first Swede to win a Grand Slam title (British Open), were the Swedish contingent, with six players earning a European Tour card for next season: Jens Fahrbring, Richard Johnson, Anton Karlsson, Sebastian Soderberg, Pontus Widegren and Niclas Johansson. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nathan Kimsey had to play a total of 252 holes in his quest for a European Tour card. The 23-year-old Englishman became only the second player in history – after Oskar Henningsson in 2008 – to come through the First and Second Stage of the Qualifying School then win the Final Stage, played this week […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}