DP World Tour
Alternative knocks for Max Kennedy as he seeks an enormous week within the Amgen Irish Open at The Ok Membership that might see him skip Q-College and HotelPlanner Tour race for 20 playing cards and make all of it the best way to the DP World Tour.
Whereas a giant week on the Ryder Cup course in Straffan might catapult the Royal. Dublin man into competition for his card, Kennedy is seeking to win and resolve all his issues in a single fell swoop.
“To go and win,” Kennedy mentioned of his objectives this week. “That is at all times the expectation.
“You’ve obtained to have a look at the best-case situation on a regular basis. When you have an excellent week this week, it modifications the whole lot. You needn’t give attention to HotelPlanner Tour anymore.
“My focus going into this week is on successful. And if that does not occur, you go once more, however that is the principle focus.
“I like it this place. I apply right here rather a lot and everybody right here is nice. I get a variety of work performed right here. Every time I am again, it’s a great place to get some work in.
“My expectations are excessive, as at all times, however the course of is to take every gap at a time and go from there.”
There are 11 Irishmen within the subject at The Ok Membership with Rory McIlroy, Shane Lowry, Pádraig Harrington, Conor Purcell, Seamus Energy and Tom McKibbin joined by Kennedy, Robert Moran, Mark Energy, Alex Maguire and. newbie, John Doyle (18).
HotelPlanner Tour
As Alex Maguire, Max Kennedy, Robert Moran and Mark Energy be part of DP World Tour common Conor Purcell within the Amgen Irish Open at The Ok Membership, two Irishmen proceed their quest for DP World Tour standing on the GAC Rosa Problem Tour 2025 at Rosa Golf Membership in Poland.
Dermot McElroy and Jonathan Caldwell fly the flag for Irish golf in GAC Rosa Problem Tour 2025 in Konopiska, seeking to make a transfer up the Street to Mallorca standings with simply 5 occasions remaining earlier than the Rolex Grand Last supported by The R&A in Mallorca (October 30 to November 2).
Whereas Liam Nolan is twenty fifth and Kennedy twenty eighth within the race for 20 DP World Tour playing cards, McElroy is 97th and Caldwell 132nd, whereas Moran is 117th and Energy 131st, with solely the highest 125 securing Class 14 standing on the HotelPlanner Tour subsequent. 12 months. And solely the highest 78 securing robust Class 8 HPT playing cards.
DP World Tour Qualifying. College
Simply two Irish gamers participate within the First Stage of the Q-College this week.
After Hugh Foley cruised by way of the First Stage on the Gamers Membership in Bristol final week, Simon Bryan and Paul Conroy performed their opening rounds at Huddersfield Golf Membership as a second raft of gamers tees it up at Hulencourt in Belgium ,which hosted the primary of two First Stage occasions final week.
Conroy opened with a stage par 70 within the race to make the highest 16 and ties who progress to subsequent month’s Second Stage.
First Stage – Hulencourt (week 2): Tee occasions | Leaderboard
First Stage – Huddersfield Golf Membership: Tee occasions | Leaderboard
Alps Tour
The Alps Tour stays on a break earlier than subsequent week’s 2025 Hauts de France-Pas de Calais Golf Open, the place Ronan Mullarney (sixth within the Order of Advantage race for 5 HotelPlanner Tour playing cards), Robert Moran (18th), Hugh Foley (twenty fifth) and Marc Boucher (112th) are set to tee it up. Michael Younger (51st) is the second reserve proper now.
LPGA Tour
The LPGA is on a break earlier than subsequent week’s $2m Kroger Queen Metropolis Championship offered by P&G in Ohio.
Leona Maguire and Stephanie Meadow, who missed the reduce in final week’s FM Championship at TPC Boston, are entered for an occasion the place Lydia Ko is the defending champion.
Women European Tour
Douglas’ Sara Byrne, Castlerock’s Annabel Wilson and Castlewarden’s Lauren Walsh are the one Irish gamers entered for this week’s Aramco Houston Championship at Golfcrest Nation Membership.
Walsh is the main Irish participant at 18th within the Order of Advantage whereas Anna Foster is thirty eighth, Leona Maguire sixtieth, Byrne eighty fifth, Annabel Wilson 89th and Screene 136th.
LET Entry Collection
Lahinch newbie Aine Donegan shall be seeking to construct on her prime 25 end in final week’s inaugural Ladies’s Irish Problem when she makes her third LETAS look of the season within the Rose Women Open.
She’s joined at Hanbury Manor Marriott Lodge & Nation Membership by rookie Canice Screene.
Donegan, who plans to bid for her card on each side of the Atlantic after her newbie swansong within the World Beginner Staff Championships, completed tied for 14th within the Amundi Czech Women Problem in June earlier than overcoming a gap 78 with a brace of 71s to complete joint twenty second at Malahide final week.
