{"id":820209,"date":"2026-10-31T23:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T23:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/820209\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T23:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T23:16:08","slug":"nolan-on-brink-of-securing-dp-world-tour-card-in-mallorca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/820209\/","title":{"rendered":"Nolan on brink of securing DP World Tour card in Mallorca"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Galway&#8217;s Liam Nolan is 18 holes away from securing his card for the DP World Tour next season after a third round 71 at the Grand Final in Mallorca.<\/p>\n<p>Nolan remains 12th in the Road to Majorca rankings as the 2026 HotelPlanner Tour concludes this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The top 15 by the end of play on Sunday will secure DP World Tour cards for next season.<\/p>\n<p>He did slip to tied-25th in the Grand Final in Alcanada after carding a round of 71 on Saturday, with back-to-back birdies on the fourth and fifth and a dropped stroke at the short 14th hole.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\">&#8220;This is huge, this is career-changing stuff.&#8221; Kenny Fahey, Liam Nolan&#8217;s coach, is living every moment out there with the Irishman \ud83d\ude4c\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddea https:\/\/t.co\/y0Gg3d6RCk<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 HotelPlanner Tour (@HPlanner_Tour) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/HPlanner_Tour\/status\/2116531632396026234\" rel=\"nofollow\">October 31, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nolan finishes the day as he started in 12th spot in the Race to Mallorca on 842.98 points. He is well clear of England&#8217;s Will Enefer on 806.12.<\/p>\n<p>2020 Irish Open winner John Catlin is two places behind Nolan in 14th spot on 787.27, while Andrew Wilson occupies the final qualifying spot on 784.25.<\/p>\n<p>Nolan, who has five top-10 finishes on the tour in 2026, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/golf\/2026\/1003\/1593899-stunning-65-gives-nolan-maiden-win-in-abu-dhabi-challenge\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">claimed his maiden professional victory in the Abu Dhabi Challenge<\/a> at the beginning of the month.<\/p>\n<p>He performed strongly at the Irish Open, finishing tied-31st on three under par, two strokes better than Rory McIlroy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Galway&#8217;s Liam Nolan is 18 holes away from securing his card for the DP World Tour next season&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":820210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-820209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}