![]() ![]() I have been playing decent just not really holing any putts and making a few mistakes here and there, and not putting a score together, so for it all to come together today it was nice." ![]() Perth’s, Jason Scrivener, is just two behind the lead as the Turkish Airlines Open heads into the weekend in Antalya in Turkey."It has been a frustrating couple of months, and I felt a round like this was close and I am pretty happy with it," said Scrivener. Scrivener put together a bogey free second round of 66 to be sitting just off the lead held by Austrian Matthias Schwab and with just this week and next week’s Nedbank Challenge remaining ahead of the season ending DP World Tour Championship Dubai, he needs to capitalise on this start if he is to force his way into the top 50 who will make it to the event in three weeks time Scrivener is currently 61 st in the Race to Dubai Rankings but his start has lifted him to a projected 54 th. Scott Hend showed improvement on recent efforts to be tied for 25 th, three shots behind Scrivener, New Zealander Ryan Fox is 33 rd and Wade Ormsby 43 rd in a field where this is no cut.įor the leader, Schwab, his start to the event continues an impressive run of form of late having been 4 th in two of his last three starts and inside the top ten in five of his last eight.Ī good weekend might just be enough to qualify for Dubai without the pressure of being forced to play well in South Africa next week. The 24-year-old leads the standings in the highest number of top ten finishes on the European Tour this season, with nine. Schwab has yet to win on the European Tour but many believe that once he does he will win many.ĭespite an eagle at the first hole today he struggled through much of the front nine but things improved on the way home. “I wasn’t really hitting them great at all, especially early on but kept it together,” said Schwab. “Obviously the start was good with an eagle on the first hole, but then it was not very nice to watch I think. On the back nine I found my swing a little bit and made a few good birdies coming home.Justin Warren – file photo courtesy of Anthony Powter Master of the Amateurs The long game wasn’t on but I managed to make a few good pars. New South Wales golfer, Justin Warren, and West Australian Jason Scrivener are the only Australasians to have successfully negotiated their way through Stage Two qualifying for the Korn Ferry Tour and in finishing 8 th at their respective venues in California and Florida they will graduate to the Final Stage beginning on November 4 th in Georgia to determine if he will earn the right to play the Korn Ferry Tour in 2022. “I don’t think there are words to describe the roller coaster of emotions that q school provides especially when you’re around the number.” “I can’t describe the feeling when I walked off 18 and pulled out my phone to check the leaderboard and saw that -10 was safe,” a relieved Warren told David Tease of Golf NSW Warren was one of some dozen or so Australasians at five venues across the USA from which the leading 19 of 70 or so players at each venue would their way to the Final Stage, further highlighting the demands of just getting to the Korn Ferry Tour which is in turn the feeder tour for the 2023 PGA Tour. ![]() Warren, from Picton in southwest Sydney, turned professional in mid-2019 after an amateur career which included time in the US at the South Mountain Community College in Arizona before switching to the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in 2017. ![]() Warren closed his final season in Little Rock taking his place as one of the top golfers in program history. He finished the 2018-19 season with a 71.41 scoring average – the lowest ever by a Trojan and ranking fourth in the Sun Belt Conference. Warren returned to Australia in mid-2019 and took advantage of the status he had secured on the PGA Tour of Australasia while still an amateur late in 2018, so the demands of tour qualifying were not new to him this week. Highlighting the progress his game had made while in the collegiate system in the USA, Warren produced several top tens in PGA Tour of Australasian Tour events in the last eighteen months including a runner-up finish at the Moonah links event earlier this year.Ī member of the Australian Golf Club and coached there by highly regarded Gary Barter, the 26-year-old still has a big task in two weeks time where those successful this week will be joined by unsuccessful players from the 2021 PGA and Korn Ferry Tours as they attempt to gain full access to the Korn Ferry Tour. He continues to impress in everything he does however and he might yet prove to be a real ‘Smokey’ amongst Australia’s emerging players. ![]()
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