Weekly Wrap - Week 51

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WEEK 51 – WEEKLY WRAP

The last week of competitive golf for the year across the world comes to an end but it won’t be long before there’s more action. Here is when every tour gets going in 2026. DP World Tour, Sunshine Tour and the WPGA & PGAAus are all continuing seasons started in 2025.

WPGA & PGAAus 8-11 January Webex Players Series Perth

LIV Golf 8-11 January LIV Golf Promotions (Q School)

Korn Ferry Tour 11-14 January The Bahamas Golf Classic

PGA Tour 15-18 January Sony Open

Legends Tour 15-20 January Q School

DP World Tour 15-18 January Dubai Invitational

PGA Champions Tour 16-18 January Mitsubishi Electric Championship

Sunshine Tour 22-15 January Cell C Challenge

LPGA 29 Jan – 1 February Hilton Grand Vacations

Tournament of Champions

Hotel Planner /tour 29 Jan – 1 February SDC Open

LET 11-14 February PIF Saudi Ladies International

Epson 5-7 March Atlantic Beach Classic by Access Golf

JLPGA 5-8 March Daikin Orchi8d Ladies Golf Tournament

Japan Tour 5–8 March ISPS Handa Japan – Australasia

Championship

LETAS details not confirmed

Asian Tour details not confirmed – typically late January

ALL THIS WEEKS RESULTS:

LET

Tournament: Q School Final Qualifying

Dates: 16-21 December

Course: Al Maaden Golf Marrakech & The Royal Golf Marrakech

Purse:€10,000

Ozzies in the field: Justice Bosio, Abbie Teasdale, Belinda Ji, Amy Walsh, Steph Bunque, Munchin Keh (NZ)

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 LET Access 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 is 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 is 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

DP World Tour

Tournament: AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open

Dates: 18-21 December

Course: Heritage La Réserve Golf Links

Purse: USD $1.2M

Ozzies in the field: Austin Batista, Ryan Peake, Connor McKinney, Anthony Quayle, Jack Buchanan

South African Jayden Schaper won in dramatic style with a chip in eagle on the second playoff hole against the American Ryan Gerard. The win continues Schaper’s incredible streak in his home country. He finished runner up in the NedBank Challenge and followed that with consecutive wins at the Alfred Dunhill Championship and now the AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open. The win ensured Schaper won the Opening Swing and earned him a bonus of $200,000 and entry to the first Rolex Series event of the season, The Hero Dubai Desert Classic and he also gains entry to all the Back Nine Events.

Ryan Gerard may not have won the tournament but he proved that sometimes winning comes in different forms. Entering the tournament Gerard sat at number 57 on the OWGR. With top 50 getting at years end getting an invite to The Masters Gerard took off to play the DO World Tour event. He was eligible due to his win in the co-sanctioned Barracuda Championship earlier in the year. Of course he would have loved to have won but his second place secured enough OWGR points to elevate him from number 57 to number 46 on the OWGR and into get an invitation to August next April.

Anthony Quayle T9 - Euro 18,669

Austin Batista - MC

Ryan Peake - MC

Connor McKinney - MC

Jack Buchanan- MC

Asian Tour

Tournament: Qualifying School Final Stage

Dates: 17-21 December

Course: Lake View Resort and Golf Club

Purse: USD $15,000

Ozzies in the field: Ben Henkel, Shaun Campbell (NZ), Aiden Didone, Ben Ferguson, Max Ford, Silvester Tan, Michael Pearce, James Mee, Darcy Brereton, Aiden Coull, Brady Watt, Harrison Crowe, Phoenix Campbell, Will Florimo, Todd Sinnott, Brett Rankin.

After five rounds three Ozzies secured their cards for next seasons Asian Tour. Two time Asian Amateur champion Yuzin Lin finished as the leading competitor. Lin’s final round of four under 67 was enough to win by one shot from India’s Shaurya Bhattacharya.

And if five rounds of Q School aren’t tough enough there was a playoff to determine the final cards. Top 35, no ties, earn a tour card. Twelve players finished on five under par and equal 28th. They played off for the remaining eight places. The successful players in the playoff were Japan’s Tomohiro Ishizaka, Carson Herron and Marcus Plunkett from USA, Carlos Pigem from Spain, Welshman David Boote, Jin Zihao from China, Germany’s Marc Hammer.

It is great to see these three young Ozzies securing their playing rights on the Asiana Tour.

Will Florimo 5th

Brett Rankin 10th

Harrison Crowe 17th