Bosio and Bunque Shine at LET Q School

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Justice Bosio and Steph Bunque earn LET Card at Q School

After a rain shortened Ladies European Tour Q School in Morocco Justice Bosio has finished T9 to earn her LET card for next season. Despite two late bogeys the Queenslander had done enough with rounds of 69, 73, 67, 70 to secure a top twenty finish and Category 12 status. Rain washed out day one so five rounds became four for the 156 players trying to get onto the main women’s European tour next season.

It is just deserts for Bosio who this season finished 8th on the LetAccess OOM, one spot away from promotion to the LET. She had made a last minute dash back to Spain for the final event of the season to try and climb into the top seven and get her LET card through OOM promotion. That wasn’t to be, so it is fantastic to see her get her card through the Q School route and be on the main tour where she deserves to play.

Stephanie Bunque also had a tremendous week finishing T30 and earning status in Category 16 which is for positions 21-50. This should give Bunque starts in early season tournaments before the first re ranking, which was early June this year. After that re ranking Category 16 will get harder for starts, so making cuts in those early season events will be critical to maintain good playing status. However, it is possible to have a very good season starting out in Category 16. This season Madison Hinson-Tolchard finished T31 on the LET OOM after gaining her card through category 16 in the 2024 Q School. So hopefully we will see plenty of Steph on the LET next season.

Belinda Ji missed finishing in the top 50 by one shot finishing with a bogey on her last hole. However it was really the +5 seventy-seven in round three that did the damage. Ji will probably get starts in the Ozzie swing and maybe South Africa but the reality is it’s back to LetAccess for next season. Ji can draw inspiration from Bosio who finished just outside the top 50 last year and then went in to have a great year on LETAceess and is now on the main tour.

Interestingly two of the top fifty spots were taken by full-time LPGA players, Ingrid Lingblad and Julia Lopez Ramirez. They played Q school to attain membership of the LET as that is a prerequisite to Solheim Cup selection. Whilst they achieved their goal, Ramirez finish at T9 knocked three players out of the top twenty and combined they knocked out seven players, including Belinda Ji, from the top fifty. Apart from the bare minimum number of tournaments required to maintain their membership it’s hard to see Lingblad and Ramirez playing on the LET next season. This should raise the question of whether the LET considers a different path for European players on the LPGA to be eligible for the Solheim Cup. The tournament was nothing to these two excellent players but the results have dashed the hopes of nine players struggling to get status on the LET next season.

So Bosio and Bunque step up to the main women’s European tour next season, joining Kirsten Rudgeley, Kelsey Bennett and Madison Hinson-Tolchard. It’s fantastic to have two more Ozzie women on the LET next year.

Justice Bosio T9

Steph Bunque T30

Belinda Ji T51

Amy Walsh T104

Muncie Ken (NZ) T104

Abbie Teasdale T133