Qualifying Schools -- Setting The Record Straight

Contrary to what BC GOLF NEWS reported on Friday, we apologize for rushing to post results from the Scottsdale, Arizona Champions Tour site before it was completely finished and crediting Rutledge with acquiring his conditional card for 2010, when in fact, Jim ended up in a six-way tie for 11th spot, just two shots shy of getting into a playoff for the fifth and final exempt card.

He did, however, get into a six-man playoff for the final two of seven conditional cards, but alas, he failed to survive that playoff.

Rutledge began Friday's round tied for 27th place and raced up the leaderboard by going 4-under par through his first nine holes, only to come up one shot shy of what he needed on the back nine. Now his only option to play on the Champions Tour next season will be through the arduous routine of Monday qualifying.

Rod Spittle of Niagra Falls, Ont., was also eliminated in the playoff for the final two conditional cards, while Ray Stewart of Abbotsford finished tied for 45th place.

CANADIANS - CHAMPIONS TOUR - SECOND STAGE - 72 HOLES

Scottsdale, AR - Par 71 x4 = 284
T11 Jim Rutledge, Victoria, BC 71 69 68 66 -- 274
T11 Rod Spittle, Ontario 71 67 66 70 -- 274
T41 Yvan Beauchemin, Quebec 69 71 72 70 -- 282
T46 Ray Stewart, Abbotsford, BC 75 70 68 73 -- 283
T72 Ben Boudreau, Quebec 73 74 71 77 -- 218

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The list of Canadians hoping to qualify for a chance to make it to 'the Big Show' was reduced from 21 down to eight following four rounds of second stage play over six sites throughout the United States Saturday.

The most encouraging comeback was staged by Weyburn, Saskatchewan's Graham Delaet who shot a four-under 67 in Georgia and bounded from 28th place into a tie for 13th to make it among the top 20 and ties who now advance to Florida in two weeks time for the PGA TOUR's 108-hole final Q-School marathon.

Almost immediately after his round Delaet hopped aboard a jet bound for China. He and Stuart Anderson of Victoria will represent Canada in the two-man OMEGA Mission Hills team World Cup championship that begins November 26.

British Columbia's Bryn Parry, the Vancouver Golf Tour Order of Merit winner, and rookie pro Adam Hadwin didn't get off to a particularly strong start and failed to advance beyond the second stage.

CANADIANS - PGA TOUR - SECOND STAGE - 72 HOLES

Brooksville, FL - Par 72 x4 = 288 (21 & T)
T2 Keven Fortin-Simard, Quebec 65 71 68 69 = 272
T14 Jon Mills, Ontario 67 71 70 71 = 279
T42 Adam Short, Ontario 73 77 68 68 = 286
T47 Yohann Benson, Quebec 74 71 70 72 = 287
T60 Bryan DeCorso, Ontario 69 74 71 80 = 294
T73 David Markle, Ontario 71 82 74 71 = 298

Panama City Beach, FL - Par 71 x4 = 284 (20 & T)
T42 David Morland, Ontario 72 74 70 74 = 290

Pine Mountain, GA - Par Par 72 x4 = 288 (20 & T)
T13 Graham DeLaet, Saskatchewan 72 68 71 67 = 278
T16 Ted Brown, Ontario 71 69 70 69 = 279
T54 James Love, Calgary 71 71 70 74 = 286
T54 Ian Leggatt, Ontario 70 71 69 76 = 286

Kingwood, TX - Par 72 x4 = 288 (19 & T)
T17 David Hearn, Ontario 70 71 70 73 = 284
T23 J.C. Deacon 68 72 74 71 = 285
T23 Brad Fritsch. Ontario 73 70 69 73 = 285
T63 Ben Ferguson, Ontario 74 73 80 71 = 298

McKinney, TX - Par 71 x4 = 284 (21 & T)
T56 Bryn Parry, North Vancouver, BC 71 77 67 72 = 287
T78 Ryan Horn, Manitoba 72 76 78 71 = 297

Beaumont, CA - Par 72 x4 = 288 (20 & T)
T7 Barrett Jarosch, Alberta 67 67 73 70 = 277
T19 Julien Trudeau, Quebec 66 75 69 70 = 280
T19 David McKenzie, Ontario 71 70 66 73 = 280
T27 Seung Lee, Canada 74 67 68 73 = 282
T56 Adam Hadwin, Abbottsford, BC 70 74 70 76 = 290
WD Stuart Anderson, Victoria, BC 74 73 74 WD - 221

PGA TOUR FINAL Q-SCHOOL - 108 HOLES
West Palm Beach, FL
Dec 2 - Dec 7, 2009
Bear Lakes Country Club - Lakes & Links Courses

The event will be contested over 108 holes and only the low 25 scores and ties will earn their PGA TOUR cards for 2010. The rest of the field will have some degree of status on the Nationwide Tour. The purse for the event is $1,012500 with $50,000 going to the champion.

Following is a list of players entered at Bear Lakes who were exempt into the final stage:

Brendon de Jonge, Chris Baryla, Shane Bertsch, Adam Bland, Andrew Buckle, Gavin Coles, Bubba Dickerson, David Duval, Rickie Fowler, Robert Garrigus, Fabian Gomez, Mathias Gronberg, Todd Hamilton, Tim Herron, Matt Jones, Cliff Kresge, Spencer Levin, Jeff Maggert, Rocco Mediate, Troy Merritt, Joe Ogilvie, Jesper Parnevik, Tom Pernice Jr., Martin Piller, Ewan Porter, Alistair Presnell, Aron Price, Chris Riley, Dustin Risdon, Dave Schultz, Patrick Sheehan, Brian Smock, Darron Stiles, Brian Stuard, Esteban Toledo, Charles Warren, Matt Weibring and Steve Wheatcroft.

Here is a list of 132 players who advanced through the second stage of q-school:
Affrunti, Joe Guetz, Bret Micheel, Shaun
Aldridge, Tyler Gutschewski, Scott Miller, Zack
Anderson, Mark Gwin, Robert Mills, Jon
Arnold, Jamie Haas, Hunter Morin, Alan
Atwal, Arjun Hahn, James Mundorf, Chris
Barbetti, Daniel Hamamoto, Jarett Murphy, Trevor
Bates, Ben Hamilton, Alex Muthiya, Madalitso
Beach, Nick Harris, Ty Nallen, Chris
Beaufils, Ray Hayes, J.P. Oppenheim, Rob
Bertoni, Travis Hearn, David Osborn, Garrett
Blanks, Kris Hensby, Mark Pappas, Brenden
Borchert, Matt Holmes, Steve Park, Jin
Bradley, Keegan Horschel, Billy Peffley, Blaine
Brehaut, Jeff Hutchins, Jesse Peters, Justin
Brigman, D.J. Iles, Brad Poole, Stephen
Broadaway, Josh Jarosch, Barrett Potter, Jr., Ted
Brown, Scott Jobe, Brandt Price, Rick
Brown, Ted Joon Lee, Won Pride, Dicky
Buchner, Dan Kamin, Chris Reifers, Kyle
Christian, Gary Kang, Sunghoon Riegger, John
Connell, Michael Kaye, Jonathan Robinson, David
Cotner, Keoke Kelly, Troy Rogers, Chris
Daley, Jess Kendall, Skip Scherrer, Tom
Damron, Robert Killeen, J.J. Schnell, Brady
Davidson, Matt Kim, Sunny Sessler, Chris
Dawson, Marco Kirk, Chris Smith, Nathan
Day, Glen Kisner, Kevin Stallings, Scott
DeLaet, Graham Knost, Colt Stankowski, Paul
Delahoussaye, Brent La'Cassie, Bronson Steele, Brendan
Douma, John Lancaster, Neal Svoboda, Andrew
Dresser, Andrew Leaver, Grant Tataurangi, Phil
Duke, Ken Lederer, Brett Thompson, Kyle
Duncan, Brian Leon, Hugo Tringale, Cameron
Fischer, Tod List, Luke Trudeau, Julien
Flores, Martin Lutterus, David Turner, Emmett
Fortin-Simard, Keven MacWhinnie, Bobby Tyler, Nathan
Franco, Carlos Malinowski, Nick Uresti, Omar
Gainey, Tommy Manning, Major Van Aswegen, Tyrone
Garnett, Brice Mathis, David Walker, Mark
Gates, Robert McGirt, William Watkins, Aaron
Gomez, Rafael McKenzie, David White, Dustin
Gordon, Scott McLardy, Andrew Williamson, Jay
Gore, Jason McLuen, Jay Wilson, Chris
Grunewald, Kelly Meyer, Adam Wittenberg, Casey

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The final field is set for the LPGA TOUR's Final Qualifying School December 2-6 at the LPGA International Course in Daytona Beach Florida.

Canadians entered include: Izzy Beisiegel, Angela Buzminski, Kirby Dreher, vetreran Lorie Kane, Christina Lecuyer, Lisa Meldrum, Jessica Shepley and Adrienne White.