Alfred Dunhill Hyperlinks Championship
-20 A Meronk (Pol); -18 C Jarvis (SA), N Norgaard (Den); -17 M Stewart (Sco), T Fleetwood (Eng); -16 R MacIntyre (Sco), B Koepka (US)
Chosen others: -13 C Syme (Sco); -12 S Bairstow (Eng), C Hill (Sco); -12 M Fitzpatrick (Eng), M Jordan (Eng); -11 D Regulation (Sco), R Mansell (Eng); -9 P Harrington (Ire), A Fitzpatrick (Eng), S Jamieson (Sco), C Adam (Sco), E Walker (Sco)
On Wednesday, Michael Stewart earned £2,500 for ending runner-up within the Tartan Professional Tour occasion at Duddingston Golf Membership close to Edinburgh.
4 days later, the world quantity 979 has simply picked up practically 100 instances that by ending joint fourth behind winner Adrian Meronk on the Alfred Dunhill Hyperlinks Championship.
However what the 36-year-old Scot regards as “doubtless” one of the best week of his profession has left him with a dilemma.
Ending within the high 10 – two photographs behind Poland’s Meronk, one behind Denmark’s Niklas Norgaard and South Africa’s Casey Jarvis, and tied with England’s Tommy Fleetwood – means he qualifies for subsequent week’s big-money Spanish Open.
Nonetheless, that clashes with the conclusion to the Tartan Professional Tour, the Gleneagles Masters, after which Stewart will qualify for subsequent 12 months’s second-tier Problem Tour ought to he defend his present second place.
“Proper now, in all honesty, in my thoughts, it is positively play the Tartan Professional Tour closing at Gleneagles,” Stewart mentioned.
“If I do not go and anyone overtakes me, I do not suppose that is the suitable factor to do.
“I’ve performed so properly to place myself in that place as properly. There’s so many good gamers behind me. One in every of three or 4 guys can catch me and, if certainly one of them performs properly, they’ll win.
