Tour card hopefuls tee off in Victoria

BY Bruce Young | Australasian PGA Tour | 2007 Australasian PGA Tour Q-School - Final Stage | Preview | 17 Dec 2007

Andrew Dodt

(Photo: Anthony Powter)

The Australasian Tour’s Final Stage of Qualifying begins tomorrow with 87 players looking to gain one of the 35 cards that will make them officially a member of the Australasian Tour, although for many that will mean little in the way of access to the bigger events on that tour.

Essentially it is only the top five players who can be assured, via Category 11, of starts in the bigger local events next season.

For the remaining 30 there may, via category 14, be the chance of perhaps one Australasian Tour start or at least the chance to play all the Von Nida Tour events in 2008 and hopefully use that as a vehicle to greater things in 2009.

The Final Stage is to be played over four rounds at the Peninsula Golf Club (North Course) on the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria with no cut. Those finishing from 36th – 60th will have conditional status.

An interesting mix of established and emerging players will tee it up including the 1999 Australian Masters Champion and ex-PGA Tour player, Craig Spence and previous Jacob’s Creek Open winner and another ex-PGA Tour player, Euan Walters, who are up against significant young talents including Andrew Dodt and Aaron Pike.

Top 10
AUS/NZ

Position	Score	Player	R 1	R 2	R 3	R 4	Total
1	-21	Bronson La’cassie	67	67	67	66	267
2	-11	Sung Lee	69	72	70	66	277
3	-11	Andrew Dodt	72	65	72	68	277
4	-9	Euan Walters	68	69	69	73	279
5	-8	Mark Purser	70	68	71	71	280
6	-8	Rowan Beste	73	64	73	70	280
7	-8	Nigel Stivala	71	69	69	71	280
8	-8	David Gleeson	69	71	69	71	280
9	-7	Luke Hickmott	70	71	72	68	281
10	-7	Andrew Mckenzie	72	68	73	68	281
11	-7	Adam Wilcox	69	69	73	70	281
12	-6	Peter Cooke	72	69	73	68	282
13	-6	Richie Gallichan	71	69	70	72	282
14	-5	Brenden Stuart	75	68	75	65	283
15	-5	Alistair Presnell	73	75	69	66	283
16	-5	Michael Lambert	70	71	71	71	283
17	-5	Grant Moorhead	71	71	67	74	283
18	-5	Kevin Chun	66	73	70	74	283
19	-4	Nathan Main	73	69	69	73	284
20	-3	Robin Hodgetts	74	71	74	66	285
21	-3	Hamish Robertson	74	69	73	69	285
22	-3	Ryan Haywood	69	69	73	74	285
23	-2	Aaron Pike	72	73	73	68	286
24	-2	Michael Hendry	69	74	75	68	286
25	-2	Stephen Dartnall	68	76	73	69	286
26	-2	Pat Giles	74	68	68	76	286
27	-1	Nathan Uebergang	75	73	68	71	287
28	-1	Jarrad Roxby	67	72	77	71	287
29	Ev	Rudi Bezuidenhout	74	72	75	67	288
30	Ev	Craig Spence	75	72	73	68	288
31	Ev	Ben Burge	71	75	74	68	288
32	Ev	Peter Nolan	77	69	72	70	288
33	Ev	Ben Bunny	71	71	75	71	288
34	+1	Wayne Berry	72	73	73	71	289
35	+1	Ryan Hammond	71	71	70	77	289
Cut +1
CUT	+2	Clint Rice	77	71	66	76	290
CUT	+2	Justin Maker	71	71	72	76	290
CUT	+3	Kurt Carlson	78	74	72	67	291
CUT	+3	Mark Boe	73	72	74	72	291
CUT	+3	Alexander Munro (am)	75	71	72	73	291
CUT	+4	Yun-seok Gang	75	71	77	69	292
CUT	+4	Brendan Chant	73	70	80	69	292
CUT	+4	Michael Mcgrath	77	75	68	72	292
CUT	+4	Vernon Sexton-finck	70	71	76	75	292
CUT	+4	Todd Nicholson	71	72	72	77	292
CUT	+5	Nick Dastey	78	68	76	71	293
CUT	+6	Tigh Van Leeuwen	80	71	71	72	294
CUT	+6	Rika Batibasaga	71	74	76	73	294
CUT	+7	Ernie Rose	76	75	73	71	295
CUT	+7	Mitchell Tasker	74	70	80	71	295
CUT	+8	Jonathan Abbott	77	77	69	73	296
CUT	+8	Gavin Hills	76	76	70	74	296
CUT	+8	Sam Hunt	75	74	72	75	296
CUT	+9	James Douris	69	77	82	69	297
CUT	+9	Jason Ashcroft	74	78	73	72	297
CUT	+9	Shaun Harmer	77	73	75	72	297
CUT	+9	Jamie Arnold	70	76	78	73	297
CUT	+9	Paul Skinner	75	70	78	74	297
CUT	+9	Tony Mcnaughton	72	75	74	76	297
CUT	+9	Ben Hallam	72	74	72	79	297
CUT	+10	Benjamin Manderson	73	76	79	70	298
CUT	+10	Tom Davis	78	73	74	73	298
CUT	+10	Michael Moore	75	68	79	76	298
CUT	+10	Neil Sarkies	73	76	72	77	298
CUT	+12	Frank Power	73	78	76	73	300
CUT	+13	Kevin Lee	75	77	77	72	301
CUT	+13	Troy Kennedy	75	76	77	73	301
CUT	+13	David Stein	78	76	72	75	301
CUT	+13	Paul Spargo	73	76	77	75	301
CUT	+13	Simon Nash	71	74	78	78	301
CUT	+15	Simon Houston	76	74	83	70	303
CUT	+15	Duane Smith	77	76	79	71	303
CUT	+15	Jeremy Loomes (am)	79	80	71	73	303
CUT	+15	Steven Han (am)	75	77	75	76	303
CUT	+17	Andrew Searle	78	73	78	76	305
CUT	+18	Grant Lewis (am)	77	82	75	72	306
CUT	+18	Ben Fletcher (am)	77	76	81	72	306
CUT	+18	Nick Howell	74	76	80	76	306
CUT	+20	Daniel Morrison	81	78	78	71	308
CUT	+21	Joshua Main	77	79	78	75	309
CUT	+25	Shawn Morley	83	82	78	70	313
CUT	+25	Nathan Buzimkic (am)	76	84	74	79	313
CUT	+25	Richard Kent	79	75	80	79	313
CUT	+26	Eric Priestley	77	71	80	86	314
CUT	+28	Charles Gardiner	76	77	82	81	316
WD	-	Martin Doyle	74	80	-	-	WD
WD	-	Todd Brown (am)	83	78	73	-	WD
WD	-	Stefan Delyster	79	82	84	-	WD

Position	Score	Player	Country	R 1	R 2	R 3	R 4	Total

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