With just three tournaments left, Power \u2013 who has regained his full card for next season \u2013 is currently 70th in the standings. His goal of breaking into the top-60 would earn him exemptions to two signature events next year \u2013 the Pebble Beach pro-am and the Genesis Invitational.<\/p>\n
Fully fit after a troubled couple of years with a hip injury, Power skipped last week\u2019s Mexico Open after his defeat to Austin Smotherman in the playoff in Bermuda. Nevertheless, he ticked the box of securing full playing rights for 2027, when he hopes to work towards getting back into the world\u2019s top-50 from his current spot at 157th with an eye on making his Ryder Cup debut at Adare Manor.<\/p>\n
\u201cI still think there\u2019s going to be some good golf left in 2026, but then, I really can\u2019t wait already for 2027,\u201d Power told RT\u00c9 Radio. \u201cTo get back into some of these big tournaments, get back into Majors and show them, show myself and others, that my game is back.<\/p>\n
\u201cI fully believe, deep down, that my game is good enough and I could play on hard golf courses. I could challenge and win a Major championship. I still have aspirations to try to play a Ryder Cup, and all these things that obviously I haven\u2019t done. I\u2019m not going to stop until I feel like I\u2019ve given everything towards all those goals.\u201d<\/p>\n
Masterful return<\/p>\n
The uniquely named Fifa Laopakdee \u2013 yes, he is named after the football governing body \u2013 booked his ticket to the Masters and the Open next year after successfully defending the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship in New Zealand.<\/p>\n
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Fifa Laopakdee during the Open at Royal Birkdale in July. Photograph: Andrew Redington\/Getty Images <\/p>\n
His back-to-back success ensured the Thai golfer\u2019s return up Magnolia Lane, becoming the sixth amateur to earn an exemption, alongside Amateur Championship winner Stuart Grehan from Co Louth, world number one Preston Stout, US amateur champion Jack Whaley and runner-up Jay Leng Jnr, US mid-amateur champion Andrew Bailey.<\/p>\n
One more amateur spot will be awarded to the winner of the Latin America Amateur Championship, which will be played in Mexico in January.<\/p>\n
Word of Mouth<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t come to golf tournaments to come top-five. Sometimes, top-five is a great result, but we come to win golf tournaments, and that fine line that I had just took me over the edge\u201d \u2013 South Africa\u2019s Casandra Alexandra on claiming the Ladies\u2019 European Tour (LET) order of merit title with two tournaments to spare after adding victory in the Wistron Open in Taiwan to her successes in the KPMG Irish Women\u2019s Open and the Buccellati Italian Open, along with five runners-up finishes, in a dominant season.<\/p>\n
The 27-year-old Springbok is guaranteed to finish the season top of the LET (despite two stops remaining) and has risen to number 27 in the world rankings. But her status as European number one isn\u2019t rewarded with an automatic LPGA Tour card for 2027. If she wants to play on the lucrative LPGA circuit next season, she will have to navigate a route through Q-School in Alabama on November 19th-23rd, which seems unfair and worthy of review.<\/p>\n
By the Numbers: 3<\/p>\n
Three Irish players \u2013 Gary Hurley, Niall Kearney and R\u00f3n\u00e1n Mullarney \u2013 have made it to the DP World Tour final qualifying, which takes place at Infinitum Golf (Lakes & Hills Courses) in Tarragona, Spain from November 6th-11th.<\/p>\n
On this day: November 3rd, 1996<\/p>\n
Although considered an unofficial tournament at the end of a long year, New Zealander Frank Nobilio closed out the season with an impressive win in the Subaru Sarazen World Open at Braselton in Georgia to herald his move from the European Tour to the PGA Tour for 1997.<\/p>\n
Nobilo had enjoyed a fine season \u2013 including a fourth-placed finish in the Masters, a top-10 at the US PGA, and his fifth and final career win on the European Tour in capturing the Deutsch Bank TPC of Europe \u2013 despite being hampered by \u201cincredible pain from a shoulder condition\u201d.<\/p>\n
The Kiwi played through the pain barrier before undergoing treatment for inflammatory polyarthritis in his wrists and elbows toward the end of the summer and fittingly produced a terrific performance in defence of his title on arrival in Braselton. He came from four shots adrift of Scott Hoch entering the final round to close with a 66 for a total of 16-under-par to finish four clear of Hoch.<\/p>\n
It earned Nobilo a pay-day of $342,000 in the limited-field event mainly confined to winners of national opens on the various tours over the past two seasons.<\/p>\n
Social Swing<\/p>\n
Mind blowing that someone who will probably be ranked in the top 25 in the world when the rankings update can\u2019t have some sort of automatic exemption to the @LPGA<\/a> \ud83e\udd2f https:\/\/t.co\/VtXaOskZtz<\/a><\/p>\n