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ONLY FOUR SCOTS STILL IN HUNT
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Only four Scots - Alastair Forsyth, Jack Doherty, Doug McGuigan and Andrew McArthur - out of the 10 who started in the field of 156 have made it through to the last two rounds of the 108-hole European Tour Final Qualifying School golfing marathon at PGA Catalunya, near Girona in north-east Spain.
The six failures - Raymond Russell, Neil Fenwick, George Murray, Duncan Stewart, Scott Henry and Scott Drummond - plus West Linton-based Welshman Gareth Wright now have no chance of recouping the £1,650 entry fee on next season's European Tour.
Forsyth headed the Scots qualifiers who now have to finish in the top 25 and ties at the end of play on Friday to gain playing rights in the Big League.
The Glasgow man shot a three-under-par 69 on the longer, tougher Stadium Course, over which the final 36 holes were be played, for a 72-hole yally of 10-under-par 274. He starts the fifth round in joint 11th position.
Doherty is in joint 13th position on 275 after a 71 over the Stadium Course for 275.
Clydeside-born, South Africa-based McGuigan had six birdies in his two-under 70 for a share of 57 place on 280.
Former Scottish amateur champion McArthur made it through by the skin of his teen. He had to birdie one of his last five holes and par the rest to hit the limit mark of 282.
McArthur kept his nerve and birdied the 15th for a one-over 73 to be one of the 71 players who will play on.
Russell belatedly showed the form that made him one of the leading qualifiers from Stage 2 with a six-under 64 on the shorter Tour Course for a total of 285 - three shots to many.
Likewise, Fenwick, with no hope of qualifying, produced a four-under 666 for 286.
Murray shot a 72 for 288.
Stewart (69), Henry (72) and Wright (76) all finished on the 289 mark.
Drummond, one-time PGA championship winner at Wentworth, finished joint third last of the 151 who completed 72 holes. He signed off with a 73 for 296.
EUROPEAN TOUR FINAL QUALIFYING SCHOOL
PGA Catalunya Golf Resort, nr Gerona, NE Spain.
LEADING QUALIFIERS FOR LAST TWO ROUNDS
Par 284 (2x70. 2x72)
270 C Del Moral (Spa) 67 71 69 63.
271 F Zanotti (Para) 66 70 67 68, D Brooks (Eng) 65 71 69 676
272 E Espana (Fra) 62 74 69 67, J Morrison (Eng) 72 67 63 70, Sjoland (Swe) 66 72 67 67
273 L Bjerregaard (Den) 65 70 69 69, J Hahn (US) 66 66 73 68, B Paoloni (US) 70 71 68 64, S Wakefield (Eng) 69 68 67 69
274 A Forsyth (Sco) 65 70 70 69, J Dantorp (Swe) 66 68 68 72
OTHER SCOTTISH QUALIFIERS
275 J Doherty 68 70 66 71 (T13)
280 D McGuigan 71 68 71 70 (T47)
282 A McArthur 66 73 70 73 (T62)
SCOTTISH NON-QUALIFIERS
285 R Russell 76 78 77 64
286 N Fenwick 72 73 75 66
288 G Murray 67 77 72 72
289 D Stewart 68 77 75 69, S Henry 72 70 75 72.
296 S Drummond 75 71 77 73.
OTHER NON-QUALIFIER
289 G Wright (Wal) 72 65 76 76
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