Across four venues in Spain, players – household names and new faces alike – will assemble at Second Stage of Qualifying School with a common goal of earning a DP World Tour card for the 2026 season.
After 166 players secured their places from the First Stage across ten events in Europe from August to October, the Qualifying School continues from October 30 – November 2 with some household figures joining the action.
With the Race to Dubai regular season coming to a finish this week at the Genesis Championship, some of those players will include those to have lost their DP World Tour playing privileges.
Among others set to tee it up are those who competed on the HotelPlanner Tour and missed out on qualifying for the season-ending Rolex Grand Final supported by The R&A, held in Mallorca.
The aim for all will be to earn their place alongside already exempt DP World Tour and HotelPlanner Tour players in the 156-man field that will contest Final Stage at Infinitum Golf from November 7-12.
All four Second Stage events - played over 72 holes - are returning venues from last year; Desert Springs Resort in Almeria, Isla Canela Links in Huelva, Golf Las Pinaillas in Albacete and Fontanals Golf Club in Girona.
Arguably the most high-profile player set to feature is Eddie Pepperell, with the popular Englishman in action at Fontanals alongside South Africa’s George Coetzee among others. Between the pair, they have won seven DP World Tour titles.
At Isla Canela, Justin Harding of South Africa and Denmark’s Lucas Bjerregaard – both two-time DP World Tour winners – are among those seeking to progress to next month’s Final Stage, along with the likes of Marc Warren, who has won four times in his 499 starts on Tour.
Hamish Brown of Denmark, a HotelPlanner Tour graduate last year, Justin Walters and Jean Bekirian, who made history by becoming the first Armenian to make a cut on the DP World Tour earlier this season, are also in action in Andalusia.
The most widely recognised name in the entry list at Desert Springs is India’s two-time DP World Tour winner Shubhankar Sharma, who is competing this week in South Korea, while he is joined by Spanish duo Alfredo Garcia-Heredia and Joel Moscatel along with Matthias Schwab, a former PGA TOUR member.
Pierre Pineau and Danny List, who were both new faces on the DP World Tour in 2025, are among those looking to move a step closer to securing those precious playing privileges next season at Golf Las Pinaillas.
Gregory Bourdy – who won the last of his four DP World Tour titles in 2013 – is also teeing it up there, with inexperienced English duo Barclay Brown and Kris Kim hoping to further their bid to compete on Golf’s Global Tour.
The number of spots available through each venue is to be confirmed once play begins, with last year’s respective events offering either 23 or 24 spots each.
The Final Stage of Qualifying School is a gruelling test of six rounds, with a cut made after four rounds.
To view the entry list in full for each Second Stage event, click below: *
* Entries subject to change following completion of Genesis Championship and subsequent update to Race to Dubai Rankings
