Scotland's Lloyd and Elliot Saltman became the first brothers to qualify for The Open Championship since Seve and Manuel Ballesteros 26 years ago - both of them by the skin of their teeth.
Former amateur star Lloyd, who four years ago finished a brilliant 15th at St Andrews in his only Open Championship so far, had to wait five hours before discovering that his three under par 70 for a ten under total at Kilmarnock Barassie was just good enough to take one of the four final qualifying places on offer there.
The 23 year old spent some of that time watching his older brother competing at nearly Glasgow Gailes and then, while keeping his fingers crossed that he would not be in a play-off, received the news that Elliot, playing in the very last group of the day, had survived with nothing to spare as well.
"Wow - it's just fantastic that both of us are going to be at Turnberry next week," said Lloyd.
He would have had to go to sudden death if English professional Ricky Lee had birdied the last, but he hit his approach to 30 feet and three-putted.
Remarkably, there were almost two sets of brothers among the 12 who came through the 288-man event.
While Australian Daniel Gaunt also made it on the limit at Barassie, his brother Chris would have been in a play-off at Glasgow Gailes if Elliot Saltman had three-putted the last, but he two-putted it.
For London-based Daniel it could save his career. He has given himself three weeks to make some money or quit, saying: "I don't want to, but I have two kids and a wife to support."
Meanwhile, Jose Maria Olazábal was unable to produce the great golf he needed to survive, but he certainly witnessed somebody who did.
While Olazábal’s Turnberry hopes now rest on him grabbing the one exempt spot up for grabs at the Barclays Scottish Open, Austrian Markus Brier played his two rounds at Barassie in a spectacular 16 under par.
Brier followed up his course-record 64 with a 66 for a six stroke win over Saltman, Gaunt and Dane Peter Ellebye, who sank a six iron at the long eighth for the second albatross of his life.
"Links golf is in my body - I loved it from when I was a teenager and visited Turnberry with six or seven other Austrian amateurs," said 41 year old Brier.
Double Masters Tournament champion Olazábal was still in with a chance of grabbing one of the four places on offer at the course when he resumed on three under par, but after bogeying the long first he then blasted a drive out of bounds at the third and ran up a triple bogey seven.
"It was doom and gloom after that for me, but Markus played really well," said the Spanish star, whose level par 73 put him out by seven strokes.
Not one of the three courses needed a play-off to settle matters.
The successful quartet at Western Gailes were Swede Fredrik Andersson Hed and English professional Steve Surry, Thomas Haylock and Daniel Wardrop, who had six successive birdies from the eighth to get through right on the mark of two under.
At Glasgow Gailes, Saltman was joined by South African Thomas Aiken, former Ryder Cup player Peter Baker and Ireland's David Higgins.
