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<\/p>\n\t\t\t\tIt\u2019s one of the longest and most intense weeks in golf, and for a host of big names, their hopes of a DP World Tour card for next season are over as the curtain comes down at Q School.<\/p>\n
Since 1976, the DP World Tour Q School has provided a pathway for golfers from around the world to secure a seat at Europe\u2019s top table.<\/p>\n
With future livelihoods on the line and just 20 cards up for grabs, the Q School is one of the most pressurized and competitive events in golf.<\/p>\n
Just to be in with a chance of playing for the privilege, players who are not otherwise exempt had to come through two 72-hole stages to earn themselves a place in the 156-man field for the final stage in Spain.<\/p>\n
But a host of household names \u2013 certainly on the European circuit \u2013 failed to withstand the grueling six-day test across the Lakes and Hills Courses at Infinitum Golf Resort, near Taragona.<\/p>\n
Englishmen Oliver Wilson and Chris Wood, the only former Ryder Cup players who teed it up in Spain, were among those who missed the cut \u2013 which falls after four rounds.<\/p>\n
Wilson, who played for Nick Faldo\u2019s side in the defeat at Valhalla in 2008, will be kicking himself after a third-round 78 cost him a spot, with the two-time DP World Tour winner finishing at three-over, nine shots outside the cut.<\/p>\n
Wood, who was part of Darren Clark\u2019s team at Hazeltine in 2016, is a three-time DP World Tour winner, including the flagship BMW PGA Championship, but he fell one shot short of making it through. The 37-year-old, who battled back from an opening round of 74, was on track to progress after 66 holes, before following a bogey with a double to leave himself with too much to do.<\/p>\n
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Also falling early was compatriot Matthew Southgate, who regained his card via Q School just months after undergoing surgery for testicular cancer in 2015, but he couldn\u2019t repeat the feat. The 37-year-old, who was T6 at the 2017 Open Championship, withdrew after two rounds after opening with rounds of 74 and 75.<\/p>\n
Yannik Paul, who came close to qualifying for the 2023 Ryder Cup team, also went out. The German, who won the 2022 Mallorca Golf Open, will rue a nightmare 76 in his third round as he missed out by a single shot.<\/p>\n
Seven-time DP World Tour winner Gonzalo Fernandez-Costano also headed home after four rounds, failing to build on an opening 70 to fall six shots shy, as did Lucas Bjerregaard \u2013 the man who beat Tiger Woods in the quarter-finals of the 2019 WGC Match Play, just weeks before the American won his 15th major at the Masters.<\/p>\n
The Dane, now 34, was seen as one of golf\u2019s brightest prospects when he won the Portugal Masters in 2017 before seeing off Tommy Fleetwood and Tyrrell Hatton to lift the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship in 2018, only missing out on victory at that year\u2019s Omega European Masters with a playoff defeat to Matt Fitzpatrick.<\/p>\n
How about those who played all six rounds, though?<\/p>\n
Marc Warren, Alexander Levy, George Coetzee and David Horsey have 18 DP World Tour titles between them, but none of them will have full status next year.<\/p>\n
Scotland\u2019s Warren \u2013 who needs just one more start to join the tour\u2019s \u2018500 Club\u2019 \u2013 and Frenchman Levy \u2013 who will feel particularly aggrieved having started the day inside the top 20 \u2013 finished in a tie for 21st to miss out by a single shot, while South African Coetzee and England\u2019s Horsey finished way down the leaderboard in T42 and T49 respectively.<\/p>\n
Another player of note who missed out is Luis Masaveu. It\u2019s been a rough year for the Spaniard, who was dumped from Sergio Garcia\u2019s LIV Golf team<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 Fireballs GC \u2013 earlier this year in favor of Jose Luis Ballester.<\/p>\n