DP World Tour Q School DQ saga winds up having happy ending—for another golfer
A rules controversy at DP World Tour Q School that resulted in a golfer being DQ'd wound up leading to an unlikely player earning his tour card for next season.
On Monday, 21-year-old English pro Frank Kennedy was DQ'd from the final stage of qualifying for serious misconduct, allegedly taking a divot out of a green during the fourth round. Kennedy, who was contending and in position to easily make the 72-hole cut, appealed the ruling, but the decision was upheld.
Monday Q Info's Ryan French has been all over this story, and on Tuesday, he shared a photo of the green in question:
A day later, French pointed out something else regarding the whole situation. One of the 20 players to earn their DP World Tour cards was only playing on Wednesday because of Kennedy's mistake.
That would be Philipp Katich. As French notes, the German tour pro only advanced to the final two rounds when Kennedy's DQ allowed seven more players to sneak into the top 60 and ties on the number. And, boy, did Katich take advantage of his second life, shooting rounds of 66 and 62 to earn the final tour card up for grabs.
What a wild series of events. Here was Katich's interview after:
"Just kept grinding and made it happen," Katich says in the clip. Never give up, kids. Never give up.