Open dream still alive

All roads lead to St Andrews and the Open Championship this summer and a number of PGA pros are still in with a chance of teeing it up at the Home of Golf having negotiated Regional Qualifying.

Great Britain & Ireland PGA Cup player Lee Clarke (Beeston Fields) is among them having come through the field at Little Aston as did Royal St David’s Lee Rooke.

Ian Walley topped the qualifier at Luffenham where former PGA Play-Offs winner Paul Streeter also came through.

2013 PGA Cup pair David Callaway (Foxhills) and Dan Greenwood (Forest Pines) are also in the mix as are Jon Lupton (Close House), Paul Bradshaw (Gainsborough), Darren Leng (Far Grange Park), Paul Nesseling (Cooden Beach), James Ablett (Lee on the Solent), Crue Elliot (Sandy Lodge), Andrew Butterfield (Knole Park) and Clontarf’s Eamonn Brady.

Local Final Qualifying takes place at Gails Links, Hillside, Royal Cinque Ports and Woburn on Tuesday, June 30.

For full list of Open regional final qualifiers see here.