Peter Gustafsson and Simon Wakefield, the top two players at The European Tour Qualifying School last November, held onto their positions after the first re-rank of the season after making impressive starts to their 2005 campaigns.
Gustafsson, who lost out in a play-off to fellow Swede Peter Hanson in the Jazztel Open de España en Andalucia over the same San Roque Course where he won the Qualifying School six months earlier, leads the way in Category 11 with earnings of €209,237 after the first re-rank of the season, which took place at the conclusion of the BMW Asian Open.
Wakefield has also enjoyed a fine start to the year, the highlight coming on Monday when he finished runner-up behind Ernie Els in the BMW Asian Open in Shanghai. That took his season’’s earnings to €171,042.
Whilst the top two remain the same, the next four players after the re-rank have all made significant gains. Ian Garbutt has picked up €109,643 to climb from 23 to third but the biggest move has come from another Englishman, Neil Cheetham, who has moved from 31st to fourth.
Cheetham memorably eagled the 108th and final hole of the Qualifying School examination to take the 31st card, and went onto take second place in his first event of the 2005 season at the dunhill championship in South Africa. Cheetham has earned €108,772 this season
Stuart Little and Andrew McLardy have also made big moves, advancing from 28th to fifth and 27th to sixth respectively.
Players in Category 11 of The 2005 European Tour will be re-ranked as follows:
(i) As at May 2, the top 20 official money winners from within Category 11 on the 2005 European Tour Order of Merit were ranked 1-20 in money order in Category 11 and the remainder followed on in the order established at the Qualifying School. The first tournament entry deadline to be affected will be the Telecom Italia Open.
(ii) As at July 25, all players in Category 11 will be re-ranked in order of official money won on the 2005 European Tour Order of Merit. The first tournament entry deadline to be affected will be the Scandinavian Masters by Carlsberg.
Re-Rank 1 position will determine entry into the following events:
Telecom Italia Open
The Daily Telegraph Dunlop Masters
Nissan Irish Open
BMW Championship
The Celtic Manor Wales Open
The KLM Open
Aa St. Omer Open
Open de France
Smurfit European Open
The Barclays Scottish Open
The Deutsche Bank Players’’ Championship of Europe
Re-Rank 2 position will determine entry into the following events:
Scandinavian Masters by Carlsberg
Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles
Russian Open
BMW International Open
Omega European Masters
Linde German Masters
dunhill links championship
Abama Open de Canarias
Mallorca Classic
Positions in Category 11 after Re-Rank 1:-Pos Player Euro Card
. at
. Q-School
1 Peter GUSTAFSSON 209237.21 1
2 Simon WAKEFIELD 171042.48 2
3 Ian GARBUTT 109643.97 23
4 Neil CHEETHAM 108772.31 31
5 Stuart LITTLE 79657.01 28
6 Andrew MCLARDY 60714.89 27
7 Francois DELAMONTAGNE 44807.67 3
8 Simon HURD 40441.41 16
9 Gregory BOURDY 40023.16 30
10 Titch MOORE 39280.02 22
11 Sam LITTLE 37735.29 26
12 Stuart MANLEY 34666.91 5
13 David GRIFFITHS 33007.78 39
14 Francesco MOLINARI 32118.89 4
15 Gonzalo FERNANDEZ-CASTANO 30546.64 8
16 Jarrod MOSELEY 27282.33 25
17 Richard FINCH 22125.9 10
18 Johan SKOLD 19871.51 13
19 Niki ZITNY 16868.13 18
20 Pelle EDBERG 16307.53 11
21 Fernando ROCA 8814.00 6
22 Joakim BÄCKSTRÖM 9634.71 7
23 Adam MEDNICK 13035.00 9
24 Lars BROVOLD 6656.77 12
25 Sven STRÜVER 10133.10 14
26 Ben MASON 15434.91 15
27 Philip WALTON 1107.50 17
28 Jan-Are LARSEN 11236.98 19
29 Stephen BROWNE 8149.63 20
30 André CRUSE 5254.12 21
31 Andrea MAESTRONI 12241.06 24
32 Dean ROBERTSON 5737.10 29
33 Mark SANDERS 0 .00 32
34 Benoit TEILLERIA 3536.63 33
35 Matthew BLACKEY 14998.27 34
36 Martin ERLANDSSON 9265.50 35
37 Marco BERNARDINI 0.00 36
38 Michael JONZON 4233.20 37
39 Hernan REY 6250.00 38
