{"id":958993,"date":"2026-11-10T05:22:13","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T05:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/958993\/"},"modified":"2026-11-10T05:22:13","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T05:22:13","slug":"young-pro-disputes-being-dqd-from-dp-world-tour-q-school-for-damaging-green-australian-golf-digest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/958993\/","title":{"rendered":"Young pro disputes being DQ&#8217;d from DP World Tour Q-School for damaging green \u2013 Australian Golf Digest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[Photo: Alex Plavevski]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An English golfer called it an \u201caccident\u201d when he took a divot out of a green in the Final Stage of DP World Tour Qualifying School. Officials, though, found his actions egregious enough to disqualify him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to a report by Monday Q Info, Frank Kennedy, a 21-year-old who has won on the DP World Tour\u2019s developmental Challenge Tour, allegedly took a one-foot divot out of the 11th green during the fourth round on Infinitum Golf\u2019s Hills course in Spain. Monday Q Info reported that multiple people spoke about the incident, including a player.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.australiangolfdigest.com.au\/british-open-2026-watch-jon-rahm-receives-code-of-conduct-warning-for-tomahawking-golf-club-video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jon Rahm receives \u2018serious misconduct\u2019 warning for tomahawking golf club during The Open<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The DPWT confirmed to Monday Q Info that Kennedy was DQ\u2019d for \u201cserious misconduct, after causing deliberate damage to the course\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, Kennedy took to Instagram later to dispute the characterisation of what happened.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Breaking:  <\/p>\n<p>According to multiple people Frank Kennedy, who had a decorated Amateur career in Europe, and won on the Challenge Tour at 18, has been disqualified from Q-school while in contention (he was -15 thru 4 rounds) for damaging a green. <\/p>\n<p>According to multiple people\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Monday Q Info (@acaseofthegolf1) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/acaseofthegolf1\/status\/2119844713310364084?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">November 9, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI am hugely disappointed to have been disqualified\u2026\u201d Kennedy wrote. \u201cReports today say this was for deliberately damaging the course. I did not intentionally or deliberately damage the putting surface, and any comments saying otherwise are wholly incorrect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kennedy further explained that he missed a birdie putt at 11, and \u201cin frustration\u201d he swung his putter and \u201cit accidentally caught the surface\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMy playing partner and I repaired it straight away, and we were both satisfied it was properly fixed before we moved on,\u201d he said. \u201cI should have called a referee to check the repair, and I\u2019ve learned from that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kennedy said he respected the Rules of Golf while adding that it\u2019s not clear to him that his \u201caccidental\u201d contact is a disqualifying offence. He said he asked the DPWT for a clarification and review, and \u201cwill respect the outcome of that review\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With a 69 in the fourth round, Kennedy was in position to be among the top 60 and ties to play the final two rounds. Instead, his DQ moved the cut line from 12-under to 11-under and seven players \u2013 including Australia\u2019s Haydn Barron \u2013\u00a0who would have been eliminated survived. The top 15 players and ties will get DPWT cards for 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[Photo: Alex Plavevski] An English golfer called it an \u201caccident\u201d when he took a divot out of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":958994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[4225,64,63,25273,118461,526393,755,138747,175154,526394,44,488645,400041,85],"class_list":["post-958993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-article","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-damage","tag-dp-world-tour","tag-frank-kennedy","tag-golf","tag-golf-digest","tag-haydn-barron","tag-infinitum-golf","tag-news","tag-qualifying-school","tag-serious-misconduct","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=958993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/958994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=958993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=958993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=958993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}