Stewart Skips Spanish Open for Tartan Pro Tour Final — SkimNews
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- Michael Stewart (world No. 979) finished joint fourth at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship, picking up nearly £250,000 — roughly 100 times the £2,500 he won at a Tartan Pro Tour event at Duddingston four days earlier.
- Stewart qualified for next week's Spanish Open but said he will instead play the Gleneagles Masters to protect his second-place Tartan Pro Tour standing and lock up his Challenge Tour card.
- Adrian Meronk (Poland) won the tournament at -20, claiming his fifth DP World Tour title two shots clear of Denmark's Niklas Norgaard and South Africa's Casey Jarvis.
- The 36-year-old Ayrshire-based former Walker Cup player was making only his sixth DP World Tour appearance, having missed the cut in his previous five events.
- Robert MacIntyre, the defending champion, finished one stroke behind Stewart and called his fellow Scot's short game "superb."
- Stewart said his previous best major finish — joint 52nd at The Open at Royal Liverpool in 2023 — had left him feeling he "threw away" a special weekend.
Why it matters: Stewart is forfeiting a Spanish Open start to defend his second-place Tartan Pro Tour standing — a finish that would lock up his Challenge Tour card for next season and secure a longer-term path back to the game's top tier rather than a one-off DP World Tour payday.
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