Kennedy secures Challenge Tour card but the job is not done

Ronan MacNamara
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Royal Dublin amateur Max Kennedy has secured a Challenge Tour card for next season after he made the 72-hole cut at the Final Stage of DP World Tour Q-School at Infinitum Golf.

Kennedy has carded rounds of 70, 70, 68 and 70 across the Lakes and Hills courses including two birdies and sixteen pars to climb inside the cut mark on eight-under.

The 23-year-old lies in a share of 47th place and will play Challenge Tour golf next season at the very least but the job is not over yet.

Kennedy is four shots shy of the all important top-20 and ties that would secure status on the DP World Tour with two rounds to play.

Kennedy’s made cut puts only the faintest of gloss over what has been a very disappointing effort for the Irish players, not just at the Final Stage, where Gary Hurley and Dermot McElroy missed the cut, but across all three stages so far.

31 Irish players teed it up in the First Stage of Q-School with just nine advancing to stage two with Kennedy the only player to come through the second stage before being joined by Hurley and McElroy who had both failed to earn DP World Tour cards at the Challenge Tour Grand Final.

Hurley and McElroy will have full status on the Challenge Tour next season after they both bowed out early here.

West Waterford’s Hurley carded rounds of 72, 67, 73 and 70 to finish on four-under and miss the cut by three shots while Ballymena’s McElroy, who is playing for just the second week after a five week wrist injury at the absolute worst time of the season, missed out on level-par.

Edoardo Molinari continues to lead the way on 20-under-par.

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