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Japan Journey ends in delight for Evans

• David Tease
• December 11, 2021

What began as a three-month effort to establish himself on the Japanese Tour and became an eight-month odyssey in the process has ended on the highest of highs for Sydney’s Andrew Evans.

Playing in the final stage of the 2022 Japan Golf Tour Qualifying School at the Tom Watson Golf Course in Miyazki, Evans has stormed home with a tear away final-round seven-under 65 to claim first place and a cheque for Y1,000,000.

After rounds of 73, 70 and 72 left the Bonnie Doon gun trailing the leader by six, Evans, who claimed the Queensland Open earlier this year, said a calculated change of strategy just before the final round was the genesis of the stellar result.

He said he felt he’d played well all week, but admitted he had no choice but to attack in the final round on the testing Watson layout.

“I prepared well on the driving range this morning, and thought I’ll change my mindest to think less golf, relax a little, and be aggressive.”

“I was able to play a bit more freely today than in the first three days and it has led to this result,” he explained to the Japanese golf media post-round of his eight birdie- one bogey blitz.

“It was a tough course, but it suited my game.

“Super tight and built in a Forrest of pines. Dormant rough, and if the ball found it, it would kick sideways into the pines, and you’d have to chip out.

“It brought the longer hitters back to my drive because they could only hit 2/3 irons,” he smiled.

This week’s Q School visit was Evans fifth attempt to secure a start on one of the world’s most lucrative tours and easily his most successful effort.

Although not immediately confirmed, Evans said the spoils for actually winning meant he would likely bypass the traditional re-ranks which occur at the beginning of every new season.

“There are two re-ranks, but I believe as the tour school winner I don’t get re-ranked. I’m just waiting to hear if that’s true.

“A couple of the guys are saying I will get the entire season except ZOZO and the Japan Open.

“There’s a big difference between first and second. There was going to be a playoff if I wasn’t a shot clear.”

Kyriacou maintaining touch in Alabama.

Meanwhile, down in Alabama, Steph Kyriacou remains in touch with the leaders and is well on track to secure playing privileges on the LPGA tour for 2022.

With six rounds down and two to go, the St Michael’s tyro is tied for 17th at ten under, still a comfortable seven shots inside the all-important top 45 and within three of the top-10.

Kyriacou opened week two of the mammoth eight-round event with a two-over 74 before adding a one-over-par 73 overnight.

Frenchwoman Pauline Roussin-Bouchard leads the qualifying at 27 under, two shots in front of Korea’s Na Rin An. Thailand’s Atthaya Thitikul, who claimed the LET Order of Merit Title this year, is in third place at 22 under, while former NSW and Australian Amateur Champion Hye Jin Choi sits in fourth at 19 under.

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Three Japanese golfers advance to final week of LPGA Q-Series

Japanese golfers Minami Katsu, Yuna Nishimura and Yuri Onishi on Sunday advanced to the final week of the LPGA Q-Series, a two-week tournament at which players must finish in the top 45 and ties to qualify for the 2023 U.S. LPGA Tour.

On Sunday, Katsu had three birdies, at Nos. 9, 10 and 16, in her first bogey-free round of the qualifying tournament.

"I'm relieved I made the cut," Katsu said. "I'll just try to concentrate on things right in front of me, without worrying about the final result."

Nishimura shared 25th place at 9 under, and Onishi barely made the cut after being tied for 66th at 2 under.

The final four rounds will be played from Thursday at Highland Oaks Golf Course in Dothan, Alabama.

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PGA Tour Q-School: What fans should know about the 72-hole qualifier in Ponte Vedra Beach

When and where is pga tour q-school.

Thursday through Sunday at the TPC Sawgrass Dye's Valley Course and the Sawgrass Country Club. The field of 168 players will compete in two rounds at each course. There is no cut.

What's at stake at PGA Tour Q-School?

For the first time in a decade (when the qualifying tournament was for Korn Ferry Tour status), PGA Tour cards are up for grabs. The top five, plus ties, will earn Tour status for the 2024 season.

Other rewards:

The next 40 finishers, plus ties, are exempt for the 2024 Korn Ferry Tour season.

The first 25 finishers and ties in this category will be subject to the third reshuffle, assuring them starts in the first 12 events of the 2024 season.

Any remaining finishers within the category will be subject to the second reshuffle, assuring them starts in the first eight events of the 2024 season.

-The next 20 finishers and ties (following the top 40 finishers and fies) have exempt status for the Latin America Swing of the 2024 PGA Tour Americas season, in addition to conditional Korn Ferry Tour membership for the 2024 season.

All remaining finishers outside of the aforementioned categories earn conditional Korn Ferry Tour and PGA Tour Americas membership for the 2024 season.

The winner gets $50,000 from a total purse of $410,000.

How can I watch PGA Tour Q-School?

Fans can go in person to the rounds at the Valley Course by purchasing tickets for $5 at pgatourqschool/tickets.com. All proceeds go to charity.

PGA Tour Q-School tee times

Parking is free at the TPC Sawgrass.

Rounds at the Sawgrass Country Club are closed to the public.

Golf Channel and Peacock will have tournament coverage on Saturday and Sunday. Coverage begins from 12:30-2:30 p.m. on Saturday on Peacock and Golf Channel Digital, and 2:30-4:30 p.m. on Golf Channel. Sunday coverage begins with Peacock and Golf Channel Digital from 12:30-1:30 p.m and Golf Channel from 1:30-4:30 p.m.

One player is among the top 100

Keita Nakajima of Japan, who turned professional in September of 2022 after a successful amateur career, is the only player in the field inside the top 100 of the Official World Golf Ranking. Nakajima is 90th on this week's rankings and won the Japan Golf Tour Order of Merit this year to earn an exemption for the final stage of Q-School. He won three times on the Japan Golf Tour in 2023 and previously won the tour’s 2021 Panasonic Open as an amateur.

Nakajima won the 2018 Australian Amateur, 2018 Asian Games, and 2021 Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship, in addition to spending a record 87 weeks at No. 1 of the World Amateur Golf Ranking prior to turning professional.

Order of Merit winners in Ponte Vedra

Four other Order of Merit winners from international tours are in the field this week:

Chandler Blanchet: Totalplay Cup (PGA TOUR Latinoamérica).

Jeongwoo Ham: Korean Professional Golfers’ Association.

David Micheluzzi: PGA Tour of Australasia.

Hayden Springer: Fortinet Cup (PGA TOUR Canada).

PGA Tour University graduates are playing

The top five players on the inaugural PGA Tour University rankings in June earn exemptions to the final stage. No. 1 Ludvig Aberg (winner of the RSM Classic) and No. 3 Andrien Dumant de Chassart top-30, Korn Ferry Tour) earned PGA Tour cards, Playing this week will be No. 2. Fred Biondi of the University of Florida, the 2023 NCAA Championship medalist, No. 4 Ross Steelman of Georgia Tech, the NCAA Championship runner-up and No. 5 Sam Bennett of Texas A&M, the 2022 U.S. Amateur Championship winner.

Youth is served by South African Aldrich Potgeiter

The youngest player in the field is Aldrich Potgieter of South Africa , who turned 19 in September and is 3 years, 2 months, and 4 days younger than the next-youngest player in the field, 22-year-old Sudarshan Yellamaraju. The only other players in the field under the age of 23 are Biondi and Korn Ferry Tour winner Ricky Castillo (22), his former UF teammate.

Potgieter, who was the medalist at a second-stage qualifier at Kinderlou Forest in Valdosta, Ga., won the 2022 Amateur Championship at age 17 (making him the second-youngest winner in the event’s history) and turned professional earlier this year after appearances as an amateur at the 2023 Masters Tournament, U.S. Open, and the Memorial Tournament. He finished tied for sixth at the 2023 South African PGA Championship in September.

Who traveled the longest road to Ponte Vedra?

Two players in the final stage field began their journey through PGA Tour Q-School at pre-qualifiers, Caleb Hicks and Wes Homan.

Hicks tied for ninth at a pre-qualifier at Gunter, Texas, tied for 19th at a first-stage qualifier at Rockwall, Texas, and tied for 11th at a second-stage qualifier in Port St. Lucie. Homan, 39, tied for sixth at a pre-qualifier in Chardon, Ohio, tied for 10th at a first-stage qualifier at ChampionsGate near Orlando and tied for seventh at a second-stage qualifier at Port St. Lucie.

Past PGA Tour winners in the field

Four-time winners Sean O’Hair and Scott Piercy; two-time winners Russell Knox of Ponte Vedra Beach, Patton Kizzire of St. Simons Island, Ga., Robert Streb and Fabian Gomez and Charlie Beljan, Wesley Bryan, Kevin Chappell, Austin Cook, Brice Garnett, Cody Gribble, Sung Kang, Satoshi Kodaira, Adam Long, S.Y. Noh, Martin Trainer, Kevin Tway and Richy Werenski.

Who are the First Coast players in the field?

In addition to Knox, there are Raul Pereda, Dawson Armstrong, Biondi, Blanchet, Cody Blick, Dillon Board, Castillo, Brett Drewitt, Taylor Funk, Tano Goya, Doc Redman, Mathias Schwab, Julian Suri, Danny Walker and Thomas Walsh.

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Aussies on Tour: Three advance to Q-School finals

Queensland’s Karis Davidson will join the growing band of Aussies playing their trade in the US in 2022 after advancing to the LPGA Tour’s Q-Series at Stage II of Qualifying School in Florida.

Two days after Jason Scrivener and Justin Warren guaranteed themselves status in the US by moving through to the final stage of the Korn Ferry Tour qualifying school, Davidson ( pictured ) was the lone Australian to finish in the top 45 at Second Stage of the LPGA Tour Qualifying School in Florida.

A regular on the Japan LPGA since 2018, Davidson has based herself in the US in recent weeks and came close to qualifying for an LPGA Tour event.

That experience seemed to come to the fore at Plantation Golf and Country Club as Davidson kept the nerves in check to close with successive rounds of 72 and a tie for 25th, three shots inside the cut-off line.

Davidson will now tee it up in the LPGA Tour Q-Series starting November 29, a two-week cumulative tournament that will award the top-45 finishers status on the LPGA Tour in 2022.

Gabriela Ruffels and Hira Naveed failed to advance in the cruellest of fashions, falling one shot short and left to rue a triple bogey and double bogey respectively in the fourth and final round.

The consolation for Ruffels, Naveed, Julienne Soo, Grace Kim, Kirsty Hodgkins, Soo Jin Lee, Stephanie Na, Emily Mahar and Kiwi Amelia Garvey is that by playing all four rounds at Second Stage they have secured status on the secondary Symetra Tour for 2022.

But it was heartbreak for rookie professional Stephanie Bunque who was disqualified in round one after self-reporting multiple rule violations concerning slope capabilities on distance-measuring devices.

A double bogey on the opening hole of her final round cruelled Minjee Lee’s hopes of a late Sunday charge at the BMW Ladies Championship, closing with a 1-under par round of 71 to finish tied for 12th.

Matt Jones recorded his first top-20 finish since his Honda Classic victory in March with a tie for 18th at the ZOZO Championship in Japan, Scott Hend also notching a top-20 result at the European Tour’s Mallorca Open in Spain.

While the Aussies may not have been overly prominent on leaderboards across the globe it was a superb week for the Kiwis.

Daniel Hillier ( inset ) took a step towards securing his future on the European Tour with a breakthrough win at the Challenge Tour’s Challenge Costa Brava, Lydia Ko was tied for third at the BMW Ladies Championship and Steven Alker registered his sixth top-10 finish in seven starts on the Champions Tour with a tie for fourth at the Dominion Energy Charity Classic.

LPGA and Symetra Tour Qualifying Stage II Plantation Golf and Country Club, Venice, Florida Winner Pauline Roussin-Bouchard          67-70-67-65—269 T25        Karis Davidson  71-68-72-72—283 T48        Gabriela Ruffels 72-70-71-73—286 T48        Hira Naveed       75-70-69-72—286 T55        Julienne Soo      71-72-75-69—287 T55        Grace Kim           69-73-76-69—287 T62        Amelia Garvey   70-71-73-74—288 T96        Kirsty Hodgkins (a)          76-73-71-72—292 T135      Soo Jin Lee         78-75-71-73—297 T135      Stephanie Na     75-76-72-74—297 T156      Emily Mahar (a) 74-76-74-77—301 DQ         Stephanie Bunque

PGA Tour ZOZO Championship Accordia Golf Narashino CC, Chiba, Japan Winner Hideki Matsuyama         64-68-68-65—265           $US1.791m T18        Matt Jones         67-69-73-69—278           $118,718

LPGA Tour BMW Ladies Championship LPGA International Busan, Republic of Korea Winner Jin Young Ko      71-64-67-64—266           $US300,000 Won in sudden-death playoff T3          Lydia Ko              73-67-67-64—271           $US95,144 T12        Minjee Lee         67-69-68-71—275           $33,510 29          Hannah Green   68-72-67-73—280           $16,113 T61        Su Oh    71-69-73-75—288           $4,448 T79        Sarah Kemp       76-72-72-71—291           $3,503

European Tour Mallorca Golf Open Golf Santa Ponsa, Balearic Islands, Spain Winner Jeff Winther       62-71-62-70—265           €150,940 T20        Scott Hend         71-68-66-69—274           €10,849 T40        Josh Geary         67-71-71-68—277           €6,203 MC        Maverick Antcliff             72-72—144 MC        Ryan Fox             70-75—145

Korean PGA Tour Hana Bank Invitational Bears Best Cheongna GC, Korea Winner Taehoon Lee      66-67-64-70—267           KRW201,661,692 T34        Junseok Lee       73-69-72-72—286           KRW5,762,482 T42        Wonjoon Lee     70-71-79-67—287           KRW5,041,542

Challenge Tour Challenge Costa Brava Empordà Golf, Girona, Spain Winner Daniel Hillier      71-67-62-65—265           €32,000 T37        Blake Windred  71-71-64-74—280           €1,320 MC        Dimitrios Papadatos       75-73—148

LET Access Series Santander Golf Tour Barcelona Real Club De Golf El Prat, Spain Winner Charlotte Liautier (a)      71-71-74—216  —— T34        Kristalle Blum    76-79-75—230  €458

Champions Tour Dominion Energy Charity Classic The Country Club of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia Winner Bernhard Langer             66-67-69—202  $US305,000 Won in sudden-death playoff T4          Steven Alker      63-70-72—205  $91,500 T31        Stephen Leaney 73-69-70—212  $13,800 T42        Rod Pampling    72-69-74—215  $8,600 T42        David McKenzie 71-72-72—215  $8,600

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Second Qualifying Tournament will be held at 5 venues. Approximately 95 players are expected to participate at each venue for the Second Qualifying Stage. The number of players who will advance to the Third Qualifying Stage from each site will be determined so that each site has the same ratio of participating players qualifying at each venue. The number of qualifiers to advance to the Third Qualifying Stage will be announced prior to the commencement of the Qualifying Tournament.

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• Qualifiers from the 2024 First Qualifying Stage.
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• Date: From Tuesday, OCT 22nd to Friday OCT 25th, 2024 (4days) Designated Practice day: Monday, OCT 21st, 2024 (1day) Registration: 7:00～12:00, Monday, OCT 21st, 2024 1.[ C ] Horai Country Club (Tochigi) TEL:0287-37-4114 2.[ B ] J Classic Golf Club (Tokushima) TEL:088-695-5215
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