01투어 재입성 향한 치열한 서바이벌… Q스쿨 파이널 개막
DP월드투어(DP World Tour) 퀄리파잉 스쿨(Qualifying School) 파이널 스테이지가 스페인에 위치한 인피니툼(INFINITUM)에서 개최된다. 이번 대회는 다음 시즌 DP월드투어 정시 시드를 획득하기 위한 마지막 관문이다.
특히 이번 파이널 스테이지에는 과거 DP월드투어 무대에서 우승을 차지했던 베테랑 및 챔피언 출신 선수 21명이 대거 참가해 눈길을 끈다. 이들은 투어 시드 재확보를 위해 사활을 건 승부를 펼친다.
인피니툼에서 열리는 이번 Q스쿨 파이널 스테이지는 수많은 참가자 가운데 오직 상위권 선수들에게만 차기 시즌 투어 카드를 부여하는 만큼, 그 어느 때보다 치열한 경쟁이 펼쳐질 것으로 기대를 모으고 있다.
02Original (English) — DP World Tour
Pablo Larrazábal, Marcel Siem and Thomas Pieters will be among 21 DP World Tour winners heading to INFINITUM in Spain later this week for the Final Stage of Qualifying School.
Larrazábal won the most recent of his nine DP World Tour titles in 2023 but lost his full playing rights last month and he is looking to extend his association with golf's global Tour into a 20th campaign.
INFINITUM will bring fond memories for the Spaniard, who first earned his DP World Tour card at Qualifying School in 2007, as it was the scene of his victory at the ISPS HANDA Championship in Spain in 2022, the first of back-to-back seasons in which he won twice.
Siem, who is the Tour's most experienced active player with 594 starts, is also bidding to win back playing rights after ending the 2026 season without a top ten for the first time since 2018.
Pieters is the sole Rolex Series winner in the 156-player field, with the Belgian six-time DP World Tour winner making his return to Qualifying School for the first time since 2013 and ten years on from representing Team Europe in the Ryder Cup at Hazeltine.
They are joined by a host of other established DP World Tour players trying to earn Category 18 membership, including England's Ross Fisher, France's Alexander Levy and Italian pair Renato Paratore and Edoardo Molinari, the latter a winner of Qualifying School Final Stage in 2024.
Elvis Smylie and fellow South African Dylan Naidoo both saw their winner's exemption category expire at the end of the 2026 regular season, while South Korea's Byeong Hun An won the second of his two DP World Tour titles in 2024.
Dale Whitnell, who is set to make his return to competitive golf for the first time in more than a year due to prioritising his mental health, and fellow Englishman Daniel Gavins both won titles during the 2023 Race to Dubai campaign and take their place in the field for a potential six-day marathon.
Adri Arnaus, who won his only DP World Tour title to date on home soil in 2022, is bidding to come through Qualifying School for a second year running after already progressing from Second Stage last weekend. Yannik Paul and Tom Lewis have also secured spots as reserves having initially fallen just short at Second Stage.
John Catlin and David Horsey, who have seven DP World Tour wins between them and both competed in the HotelPlanner Tour's Grand Final at the weekend, will also tee it up at Final Stage.
Completing the list of DP World Tour winners are South Africa's Thomas Aiken, Paraguay's Fabrizio Zanotti, Finland's Kalle Samooja and Sweden's Simon Forsström.
To view the entry list for Final Stage in full, click here.