Paul Dunne missed out but Naas’s Conor O’Rourke and Ballymena’s Dermot McElroy kept their hopes of winning a DP World Tour card alive by coming through the weather-delayed Second Stage of the Qualifying School in Spain. O’Rourke and McElroy now join fellow Second Stage qualifiers Ruaidhri McGee and Mark Power, and Conor Purcell (exempt via the Challenge Tour rankings) at the Final Stage. “I was pleased mostly in my attitude all week,” O’Rourke said after his weather-delayed Second Stage qualifier ran into a fifth day. “Obviously game-wise it was really good all week. I got to the Final Stage as an amateur in 2013 and again in 2017 in my first year as a pro so I’m definitely more experienced.

Source: Irish Independent November 07, 2023 05:39 UTC