Martin Wiegele, Pedro Linhart, Lee Slattery, Luis Claverie, Florian Praegant, Sion Bebb, Francois Delamontagne, Lee James, Pablo Larrazabal, Alan McLean, Joakim Backstrom, Richard Bland, Birgir Hafthorsson, Sven Struver, Paolo Terreni, Juan Abate, David Dixon, David Drysdale, Craig Lee, Matthew Millar, Benoit Teilleria, Thomas Aiken, Philip Golding, James Kamte, Jan-Are Larsen, Gareth Paddison, Marcel Siem, Patrik Sjoland, Ulrich Van Den Burg and Paul Waring.
These 30 names are worth making a note of if you like a flutter. The above are the lucky (and plucky) few who have come through the torture of the Qualifying School at San Roque. And if last year is anything to go by they should make up at least a few of the winners on this season's European Tour.
Alvaro Quiros, buoyed by sneaking through the school, pounced within a couple of weeks to land the Alfred Dunhill Championship and Carl Suneson and Daniel Vancsik also prevailed in 2007.
Thomas Aiken may be one to avoid for a few weeks though. The South African began the sixth and final round in second spot and only just scraped in after a closing 80.
Special mention also to Lee Slattery who missed out on his card by a little over £50 but tied for second at San Roque thanks in no small part to a sizzling 64 on Sunday.
There are also a few hard-luck stories during this week and England’s Stuart Davis and South African Doug McGuigan will be making the unwanted headlines on Wednesday. McGuigan bogeyed his last two holes to miss out by one while Davis finished bogey, bogey, triple bogey to fall from five-under to level par - three-under was eventually good enough.
By Mark Townsend
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