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Q school final stage infinitum 2026

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Six rounds, 156 players, fifteen tickets.

Golf has plenty of grand occasions, but few as brutal as the Final Stage of DP World Tour Qualifying School, which got under way this morning at INFINITUM, a Costa Dorada resort better known to most of us as a stop on our Spain golf holidays than as a place where careers are decided. Over six days and 108 holes, 156 players will chase a place on the 2027 DP World Tour, and most of them will go home without one. Think of it as the monthly medal with a mortgage riding on it. (Golf Magic)

Dawn on the Lakes course at INFINITUM, Costa Dorada

How the Week Works

The field plays two rounds on each of the Lakes and Hills courses, then a cut after 72 holes trims it to the low 60 and ties. Whoever survives plays the last 36 holes on the Lakes. (AmateurGolf.com)

The top 15 and ties earn DP World Tour membership and full HotelPlanner Tour status for 2027, while places 16 to 40 settle for a lesser HotelPlanner Tour category. Last year there were 20 cards on offer. The arithmetic has not improved. (AmateurGolf.com; DP World Tour)

Familiar Faces in the Queue

This is no field of hopeful unknowns. Thomas Pieters, a six-time DP World Tour winner and former Ryder Cup player, is back at Q-School for the first time since 2013 after leaving LIV Golf. He is also the only Rolex Series winner in the field. (Golf Magic)

Spain’s Pablo Larrazábal, a nine-time winner, lost his full playing rights last month and is chasing a 20th season on Tour. Germany’s Marcel Siem has 594 Tour appearances to his name, and England’s Ross Fisher is here too. Experience, it turns out, is no exemption. (Golf Magic)

Four Amateurs With a Decision to Make

Four amateurs have made it this far. Argentina’s Mateo Pulcini and America’s Dean Greyserman came through Second Stage at Fontanals, near Girona, while Nathan Wang (USA) and Segundo Oliva Pinto (Argentina) arrived via the Global Amateur Pathway. (AmateurGolf.com)

Any of them who finishes high enough will have to turn professional to take up the prize. As dilemmas go, it is a nice one to have. (AmateurGolf.com)

The Courses Doing the Sorting

INFINITUM, which golfers of a certain vintage will remember as Lumine, has 45 holes, all opened in 2008. Greg Norman’s Lakes course, a par 71 of 6,317 metres from the back tees, threads its way around the Sèquia Major wetlands and had a €1.5 million renovation in 2024. (DP World Tour; GolfPass)

Tee and water on the Lakes course at INFINITUM, Costa Dorada

The Hills course is halfway through a redesign by European Golf Design: the back nine is finished, and work on the front nine starts once the professionals have gone home. There is also the nine-hole Ruins course, laid out among Roman remains. Few practice grounds come with their own archaeology. (DP World Tour)

Hills course at INFINITUM with the sea in the backgroundFairway on the Ruins course at INFINITUM
Playing It Yourself

The resort sits about 11 kilometres from Reus airport and roughly 100 kilometres from Barcelona. Tarragona, a UNESCO World Heritage city with its own Roman amphitheatre, is only minutes away. (European Tour Destinations)

Stay at the Blaumar in Salou or the Gran Palas Hotel in Tarragona, take on the Lakes and the Hills, then finish with something in romesco, the sauce Tarragona proudly claims as its own. Nobody will be checking your scorecard for a tour card.

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Browse our Costa Dorada golf holidays and play the Lakes with nothing but pride at stake.

From Vila Nova de Gaia to the DP World Tour

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Daniel Rodrigues Shines at the Turkish Airlines Open

Daniel Rodrigues Shines at the Turkish Airlines Open

Sunday’s final round at the Turkish Airlines Open in Belek was not supposed to go like this for Daniel Rodrigues. He is 23 years old. He is playing his first full season on the DP World Tour. Six months ago, he was grinding through all three stages of Qualifying School — a six-round marathon at INFINITUM in Spain — just to earn his card. And yet there he was, standing on the 18th green at National Golf Club, finishing tied second on eight under par, two shots behind winner Mikael Lindberg.

Not bad for a debut season.

The boy from Gaia

Rodrigues is from Vila Nova de Gaia — the historic city that faces Porto across the Douro River — and his story is a good one. The former number one amateur in Portugal, he won the Portuguese Amateur title and was national Under-18 and Under-16 champion before crossing the Atlantic to study and play golf at Texas A&M University. He turned professional last summer. He made it through Q-School at the first attempt. And then, in just his second season of professional golf, he nearly won a DP World Tour event on a rain-soaked Sunday afternoon in Turkey.

Drama on moving day

The week was not without its drama. Rodrigues shared the lead heading into the final round, having carded a composed third-round 68 — birdying four of his first six holes — before a two-hour lightning stoppage threatened to break his rhythm. It did not. He and Lindberg went into Sunday tied at the top, the air still damp and the occasion very real.

Turkish Airlines Open at National Golf Club Belek Turkey

When Lindberg held firm

Lindberg, to his credit, was magnificent. The 33-year-old Swede closed with a 69 to take his maiden DP World Tour title, earning himself a debut major appearance at the PGA Championship at Aronimink later this month in the process. But Rodrigues — sharing second with Italy’s Guido Migliozzi — will have taken enormous confidence from the week. These are the results that define careers.

A Portuguese double act

It was, quietly, a fine weekend for Portuguese golf in general. Ricardo Melo Gouveia tied for seventh on six under — a steady, experienced performance from the man who has flown the flag for Portuguese golf on the DP World Tour almost single-handedly in recent years. Now, for the first time in a long time, he has company worth having.

Ricardo Melo Gouveia tied for seventh

Portugal, is producing leaderboard golfers again, which is only fitting for a country that also produces some of the finest golf courses in Europe.

Time to book your piece of Portugal

The Algarve, where Rodrigues cut his teeth as an amateur, remains one of the great destinations for any golfer who takes the game seriously. The courses are exceptional. The conditions are kind. And if watching a young man from Porto nearly win on the DP World Tour has stirred something in you — well, there is really only one thing to do about it.

Browse our Algarve golf holidays and start planning your own Portuguese story.