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La Sasso misses Q School final stage; Pieters among 13 LIV players in it
LIV Golf Indianapolis winner Michael La Sasso finished nine shots short at the second stage. Pieters, An and Smylie are among the LIV players in Friday's final stage.
Michael La Sasso finished at −5 at Desert Springs in Almería on Sunday, tied for 65th and nine shots outside the −14 needed for one of the 20 places in the final stage of DP World Tour Qualifying School. Two months after he beat Jon Rahm by a shot at LIV Golf Indianapolis, he has no DP World Tour status for 2027. The Sunshine Tour has given him an invitation to the AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open in December.
Three more LIV players who started at the second stage in Spain missed out. Yosuke Asaji finished at −12 at Desert Springs. Sam Horsfield, who won the final stage by eight shots in 2017, tied for 52nd at Isla Canela Links in Huelva. Luis Masaveu was one of six players tied at −12 for the last four places at Golf Las Pinaillas in Albacete and lost the playoff. GolfMagic reports that he has since been told he is first alternate for the final stage.
Two players with LIV ties did advance. Kieran Vincent, who has played for LIV, finished at −22 at Desert Springs, five behind Ahmad Baig of Pakistan. Luis Carrera, a Mexican LIV reserve, came through at Isla Canela.
Golf Monthly counts 13 players who have played for LIV or are on its reserve list in the 156-man final-stage field, most of them exempt from the second stage. Thomas Pieters, Byeong Hun An and Elvis Smylie are exempt as tournament winners whose exemptions have run out or are about to. José Luis Ballester and Doyeob Mun are also in the field, and so is John Catlin, who won the Link Hong Kong Open by five on 25 October.
The DP World Tour’s chief executive, Guy Kinnings, has said that players who sign for LIV 2.0, the league’s planned relaunch after its bankruptcy filing, will not be allowed to play the tour in 2027. LIV’s next hearing in the bankruptcy court in New Jersey is on Thursday.
The final stage starts on Friday at Infinitum in Tarragona: six rounds over the Lakes and Hills courses, with a cut after four and the last 36 holes on the Lakes. The top 15 and ties earn DP World Tour cards, decided on Wednesday 11 November.
Sources
- Golf Monthly: Mixed fortunes for LIV players at second stage of DP World Tour Q-School
- Golf Monthly: LIV pros among big names in DP World Tour Q-School final stage
- AmateurGolf.com: 2026 DP World Tour Q-School guide and tracker
- GolfMagic: LIV Golf stars crash out of DP World Tour Q-School
- Heavy: LIV Golf winner Michael La Sasso suffers DP World Tour setback
- GOLF.com: Lucas Herbert reveals his reason for leaving LIV Golf
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