{"id":821188,"date":"2026-11-01T23:20:14","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T23:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/821188\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T23:20:14","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T23:20:14","slug":"its-surreal-liam-nolan-secures-dp-world-tour-card-for-next-season-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/821188\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s surreal\u2019: Liam Nolan secures DP World Tour card for next season \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liam Nolan<\/a> has secured a DP World Tour<\/a> card for next season after a superb five-under-par 67 in the final day of the HotelPlanner Tour\u2019s Grand Final in Majorca put the situation beyond doubt.<\/p>\n

The Galway man had started the day in tied 25th after a disappointing 71 in his third round, which put some pressure on him to deliver in his final round to secure one of the 15 cards on offer.<\/p>\n

But Nolan came out hot on Sunday at Club de Golf Alcanada with five birdies in his first seven holes, albeit with a bogey on the second, to make sure it would be a day to remember. Two more birdies followed on the 13th and 15th holes, with a bogey at the 17th not enough to spoil the party.<\/p>\n

Nolan finished ninth in the final standings, up one place from the beginning of the event, with the top 15 getting full cards for next year.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is so nice. After the Friday, I wished it was Saturday and after the round yesterday I wished it was Sunday,\u201d he said to the HotelPlanner Tour social media, talking about the pressure he faced this week.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s nice to be done, to have the card is pretty surreal. Even after the win [in Abu Dhabi] you still have to work so hard to get a card, but now the work is done.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can relax for about a week, then get back to work,\u201d he said with a laugh.<\/p>\n

\"LiamLiam Nolan with his coach, Kenny Fahey, following his round on day four of the Grand Final at Club de Golf Alcanada. Photograph: Jasper Wax\/Getty <\/p>\n

Kenny Fahey, the head coach from the Golf Ireland Academy, was there to see him get his card.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s great, job done. I\u2019m going get emotional here, I\u2019m delighted for him, he deserved it today. Played proper golf. Nice to do it running at it, rather than running away from it. Will be a long evening ahead,\u201d Fahey said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI started working with Kenny whenever I was 12,\u201d Nolan said. \u201cWhich is mental. It\u2019s pretty class, he\u2019s seen me swing it terribly and pretty well, so this week it\u2019s pretty good.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nolan\u2019s caddie, Sean Nohilly, said: \u201cIt\u2019s been a long year, all the emotions come out on 18. I told him to take it all in, all the good results point towards right now.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a small bit of an off-season, then we go again. It will be good to celebrate with the family as they have been at a lot of tournaments with us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nolan had a solid year, with highlights being top 10s at the Danish Golf Challenge, the Challenge de Espana and Blot Play9, before he catapulted into DP World Tour card contention with victory at the Abu Dhabi Challenge in October. A tied-fifth finish at the Hainan Open a week later did his chances no harm, before the tied-14th finish in Spain sealed the deal.<\/p>\n

France\u2019s Julien Sale won the event by four strokes from Denmark\u2019s Hamish Brown, with Brown finishing number one in the HotelPlanner Tour standings.<\/p>\n

The next season of the DP World Tour will begin on November 26th at the BMW Australian PGA Championship at The Lakes GC in Sydney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liam Nolan has secured a DP World Tour card for next season after a superb five-under-par 67 in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":821189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[43452,5904,225448,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-821188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-dp-world-tour","tag-golf","tag-liam-nolan","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821188","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=821188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/821189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}