Through 36 holes of the final phase of DP World Tour Q-School with 156 players, Vince Van Veen defeated only four players.
Four!
The 28-year-old Dutch pro, who is ranked No. 1,080 in the world, opened 74-73 at Infinitum Golf in Tarragona, Spain, and was on track to miss the 72-hole cut at the 108-hole course. event.
But then Van Veen orchestrated the unthinkable: he shot 59.
59!
After six combined birdies in the first two days, Van Veen doubled that total on Sunday, recording twelve birdies, including eight in his final nine holes, to move to 12-under 59 and move up 127 places in the standings to T- 22. At 8 under, Van Veen is a shot out of the top 20 and whoever will earn his DP World Tour cards on Tuesday evening and four shots above the limit.
John Hahn holds the DP World Tour Q-School record. The American shot a 12-under 58 in 2014. Three 59s have been recorded on PGA Tour/Korn Ferry Tour Q-School.
Since turning pro at the end of 2018, Van Veen has mainly competed in the Alps Tour, which he won two years ago on his way to earning his Challenge Tour card. However, Van Veen’s rookie year on the DP World Tour’s main feeder tour did not go as planned; he missed 15 cuts and mainly played in the Alps Tour events again this year.
Three-time DP World Tour winner Edoardo Molinari leads by four shots at 17 under after a third round of 72. Frenchman Clement Sordet is second, followed by Englishman Matthew Southgate at 12 under.
Davis Bryant, a 24-year-old Colorado State product who was born three months premature, is ranked eighth at 10 under. He is joined in the song by American Matt Sharpstene (9 under), who played collegiately at West Virginia and Charlotte.
South African Justin Harding is among the group at 10, while reigning British Amateur winner Jacob Skov Olesen is part of the logjam at 9.
Notables within striking distance of the top 20 and ties include England’s Eddie Pepperell (8 under), Austria’s Maximillian Steinlechner (8 under), American Palmer Jackson (8 under), American Charlie Rieter (7 under), the American Spencer Cross (6 under), the Italian Renato Paratore (6 under), the Irish amateur Max Kennedy (6 under), the Norwegian Andreas Halvorsen (6 under), the South African George Coetzee (6 under), the Indian Rayhan Thomas (5 under), the French Bastien Amat (5 under), the Spaniard Gonzalez Fernandez-Castano (5 under), the South African Wilco Nienaber (5 under) and the American Nick Carlson (5 under).
American Ryggs Johnston (4 under), German amateur Tiger Christensen (3 under) and Peruvian Julian Perico (3 under) are among those currently under the cutoff.
