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The European Tour\u2019s annual Qualifying School is invariably a pressure cooker of conflicting emotions, and this year is no exception.<\/p>\n
First the relief\u2026 Spain\u2019s Adri Arnaus, who only turned professional this week, continued his excellent 2017 form, highlighted by victory on the Alps Tour\u2019s order of merit. The 23-year-old reached five-under-par to comfortably make the cut, one of four Spaniards to do so on home soil at Lumine Golf Club, including Gonzalo Fernandez-Casta\u00f1o \u2013 who has fellow seven-time European Tour winner \u00c1lvaro Quir\u00f3s caddying for him this week. <\/p>\n
England\u2019s Simon Khan, a two-time European Tour winner, made the cut on the two-under mark, with 74 players now contesting the final 36 holes on the Lakes Course before the top 25 and ties secure Race to Dubai status for the 2018 European Tour.<\/p>\n
Ahead of Fern\u00e1ndez (25th), Arnaus (45th) and Khan (67th), Sam Horsfield led the way on 15-under, one shot ahead of fellow Englishman Charlie Ford, whose seven-under 64 was the round of the fourth day in Tarragona.<\/p>\n
So to the anguish\u2026 As tends to be a sad custom, several former Tour champions failed to make the cut, which means they don\u2019t even have the consolation of Challenge Tour status next year \u2013 although in many cases they will be able to secure invitations to selected events as former winners or based on their career winnings and rankings. They include Australian Richard Green, Finland\u2019s Roope Kakko, 2008 Ryder Cup player Oliver Wilson from England, Swede Michael Jonzon and Niclas Fasth, another top Swede whose six Tour titles include the 2006 Andaluc\u00eda Open de Espa\u00f1a played at San Roque on the Costa del Sol. <\/p>\n
Of the other Spaniards in the field, Pep Angles was 35th and Alejandro Ca\u00f1izares 67th (both still in with a chance of winning their main tour cards), but Eduardo de la Riva and Alfredo Garc\u00eda-Heredia missed the cut by two shots, and Carlos del Moral withdraw at the end of the third day following rounds of 78-76-70.<\/p>\n
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What They Said<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Adri Arnaus<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cIt has been great season for me. I was really happy with my performances throughout the year on the Alps Tour, where I won the order of merit in the last event, but I thought it was a good time to turn pro this week and that here was the best place to do it. I have been playing really good this week. I have made a couple of mistakes each day, but hopefully I can cut those errors out over the last two days. I feel that I have a really good chance over the last two days and to get a European Tour card would be very special.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Simon Khan<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cI gave it everything today. It was one of the toughest days I\u2019ve known and I\u2019ve played really well all week, holed a couple of putts today, and to shoot three under today, I\u2019ve done all I can and I\u2019m quite proud of myself. There are still 36 holes, a long way to go, and I\u2019m going back a long way now but I remember San Roque in 2001 when I shot a 65 in the fifth round, so it can be done and I\u2019ll try to draw on that \u2013 I know what I can do, it\u2019s just about getting the putter a bit warmer. <\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s been a really odd year. It\u2019s been my first time without a full European Tour card for 15 or 16 seasons and you see things from the other side, it\u2019s tough. Getting calls late, not really knowing your schedule, not knowing what\u2019s going on really. I haven\u2019t had any momentum or felt like I\u2019ve got anything going. Normally my ball striking is the strongest part of my game and even that hasn\u2019t been there this year, but this week I came out really early and I just started getting it going \u2013 I\u2019ve been hitting it probably the best I\u2019ve hit it in a few years actually. It would be great to get a card now and kick on with this next year because I\u2019m feeling good again.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Sam Horsfield<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cI played pretty solid last week at second stage and the courses this week have just really suited me. I felt really confident coming in and I feel like my game is in a really good place right now so I just want to keep it going over the next two days. I haven\u2019t really looked at a leaderboard all week. I left a few out there today \u2013 I think I hit 17 greens in regulation so I had a lot of opportunities. I just need to keep doing this over the next two days, make some putts and I will hopefully be alright.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The European Tour\u2019s annual Qualifying School is invariably a pressure cooker of conflicting emotions, and this year is no exception. First the relief\u2026 Spain\u2019s Adri Arnaus, who only turned professional this week, continued his excellent 2017 form, highlighted by victory on the Alps Tour\u2019s order of merit. The 23-year-old reached five-under-par to comfortably make the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21797","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\/21797","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=21797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}