Following five days of intense action, it all comes to down to this at Infinitum Golf's Lakes Course, as the top 20 and ties will earn a DP World Tour card for the 2026 season.
Being staged in Tarragona, Spain, a mix of experience and youth are in contention going into the sixth and final round on Wednesday, as former DP World Tour winners and first timers look to wrap up their playing privileges for next season.
Among the notable names searching for a card are former DP World Tour winners Eddie Pepperell and Shubhankar Sharma.
One man seems to being playing a different course. Zander Lombard might be without a win on the DP World Tour (he's a seven-time runner-up) but he looks in a class of his own right now.
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It's not such good news for Davis Bryant. I mentioned his worrying finish to the front nine earlier. Four shots went in four holes, and he's just dropped another at 13. After opening with two birdies, he was in a very lofty position. Now, with just four holes to play, the nervy American will be looking over his shoulder. One more bogey and he'll slip out of the top 20 - that's how tight things have become.
SHARMA DOING ENOUGH
Despite a bogey on 12, India's Shubhankar Sharma looks to have done enough. All of his good work came on the front nine. Four holes to play. Pars will do it and even the odd bogey wouldn't be a disaster.
Jack Yule also finished strongly. The Englishman caps off a fine week with a birdie on the 18th hole. Home in 32 looks to have got the job done.
EDDIE'S CLASSY FINISH
Whatever doubts Eddie had going into this week, he'll surely be feeling on top of the world right now. That bogey on 12 put the Englishman under real pressure, but just look at that finish. I think we can safely say card safely secured.
Wow🤯Eddie Pepperell finishes birdie-birdie-birdie-birdie to move inside the top ten. #DPWTQSchool pic.twitter.com/TQPoX3vcONNovember 12, 2025
WHAT'S THE NUMBER?
Lombard's -35 (now 11 clear) is going to be safe, I'm quite sure of that. -17 looks to be the number to get to. Pepperell finishes in style (-19), reeling off four straight birdies. Class.
JOINT-LOWEST ROUND ON THE COURSE
Aaron Cockerill will soon be able to put his feet up and relax after a fine week's work. Just the one blemish on the card today - a bogey on the 9th - after which he reeled off three birdies in four holes. The Canadian is -6 on the day and -24 overall.
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SCORING VERY LOW
If you're not making birdies today, you're heading backwards. Not many players are over par, though. Benjamin Follett-Smith is one of the few. The Zimbabwean made a double on the 9th, although he still has a little breathing room, as does Davis Bryant who continues to slip back. Three straight pars from the American to start the back nine has steadied the ship after four dropped shots in four holes.
It's getting tense...
FEELING THE PRESSURE
I mentioned Adri Arnaus earlier as one of the big name players battling for his card. He's a DP World Tour winner and looked on course to go from strength to strength a couple of years ago. However, he's made four bogeys today, the most recent one coming on 13, which puts him outside the top 20.
LOGJAM
A huge group of players now at -17 (T15). Marc Warren is in with a 66 and is one of eight players on that score. There are also five players at -16, which isn't currently good enough (T23).
THREE-WAY TIE FOR SECOND
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A two-time winner on the DP World Tour, Sharma is one of the more experienced players in the field and, thanks to a four-under front nine, he finds himself in a share of second spot.
He is 23-under and alongside Aaron Cockerill and Connor McKinney, who have both started the back nine well this afternoon, sitting under-par as of now.
BIRDIE AT THE 15TH FOR EDDIE
He will need to find a few more birdies over the final few holes, but Pepperell has just birdied the 15th to move to two-under for the day and 16-under for the tournament.
Currently, he sits tied 24th, just outside the required positions, with the Englishman faced with a par 5, par 3 and par 5 finish to set a target in the clubhouse.
NINE PLAYERS AT 17-UNDER
How tight are things right now? Well, as of writing, a total of nine players find themselves at 17-under, which equals a tie for 15th!
We have the back nine to go, but this is going to be an enthralling finish here at the Infinitum Golf's Lakes Course...
HOW THINGS STAND
Expect a few changes over the next couple of hours as things get even more tight (except at the very top, obviously).
The current standings with nine holes to play 📊#DPWTQSchool pic.twitter.com/GuAMzG9eSiNovember 12, 2025
OUT IN 30
I can't stop updating you on Zander Lombard because it's just so impressive. He makes the turn in 30 after another birdie on the 9th. He's home and dry, basically, and is surely now on course to break every Q School record.
HOLES RUNNING OUT....
Eddie Pepperell now finds himself in trouble. No birdies since the 3rd on another day of lowing scoring is not what's required, and it's just got worse with a bogey on the 12th. Five holes left and he desperately need to take advantage of the two remaining par 5s on the Lakes course. Eddie is currently T25.
LOMBARD RACING FURTHER CLEAR
Make that -4 through eight (-33). This might be a six-round affair, but that doesn't make the 10-shot lead any less impressive. The only thing stopping Lombard playing on the DP World Tour next year is a game of padel (we shouldn't joke, as that was one very nasty injury). Maybe leave the racquet sports until you're retired, though, Zander.
HANGING IN THERE
Frederico Biondi Figueiredo from Brazil is on track to secure a card having come through all three stages of Q-School.
Two under through nine, Frederico Biondi Figueiredo is on course to come through all three stages to earn DP World Tour playing privileges 🇧🇷#DPWTQSchool pic.twitter.com/SVQ3N39mpzNovember 12, 2025
IT'S TIGHT
Five players T14 on -17. Seven players T19 on -16. Three players T26 on -15.
ZANDER REMAINS -32
Our friends on the DP World Tour may have just make a mistake with that bogey - which wasn't. Maybe they're trying to create a bit of drama. There is none, not so far as the lead is concerned, with the South African leading by nine with 11 holes to play. Let's focus then on the battle for the other 19 cards...
CREAM RISING TO THE TOP
So we have Lombard at the top on -31 and now Shubhankar Sharma up into a share of second, thanks for four birdies in the opening six holes of round six. The two-time DP World Tour winner, the Sir Henry Cotton Rookie of the Year in 2018, has been struggling this year but seems to have found his swing at just the right time.
SCORE CHECK
I'm not sure what the record is at Infinitum. Edoardo Molinari, last year's winner, made it to -29 for his six rounds. Zander Lombard is currently -31. He's just made a rare bogey. The South African has a good few lives to spare - no damage done. 96 holes, 10 bogeys, no doubles, 37 birdies, two eagles, 47 pars.
ANOTHER BIRDIE FOR ZANDER
I will at some stage refer to him as Xander - so apologies in advance. He is, however, playing like World No. 3 Xander Schauffele right now. Another birdie at the 5th and he gets it to -32 (officially the first time I've written that number).
DOING JUST ABOUT ENOUGH
Back to Eddie. Not much wiggle room. He's got some bottle, though, and he's going to need it on the back nine.
T18. Eddie Pepperell -16The Englishman is one shot inside the top 20 as he makes the turn. #DPWTQSchool pic.twitter.com/iOGficjVd9November 12, 2025
LOMBARD AWAY AND GONE
Zander is putting on a class performance. He's yet to win on the DP World Tour. Does this count? I think not, not as an official win, but perhaps it should do... six rounds with the pressure on, very impressive stuff.
Two under through three. Eight shots clear. 31 under par 👏🇿🇦Zander Lombard is cruising. #DPWTQSchool pic.twitter.com/lI8RH0hza4November 12, 2025
CHRIS WOOD'S STRUGGLES
It doesn't matter what you've achieved in this game, sometimes it's just tough - and it kicks you in the.... Chris Wood, another very likeable chap, bowed out after four rounds. At least he's out there giving it a go, and we wish him well. He's had his struggles, remember.
This was from his DP World Tour player blog last year...
"I was just riddled with anxiety and fear and tension from the moment I left home for a tournament. It was 24/7 during tournament weeks, I was extremely anxious and not sleeping and it becomes a vicious cycle"
Keep it up, Woody, you'll be back.
EDDIE UPDATE
The popular Englishman, a player with two DP World Tour wins to his name, was quick out of the blocks to day with birdies at 2 & 3. Five straight pars since. He's in a decent position, but he can't afford many slip-ups, not with such a bunched leaderboard.
ELSEWHERE...
It's a huge day in Spain, and some big names find themselves in a real battle for their playing privileges. Spain's Adri Arnaus is one of those. The winner of the Catalunya Championship in 2022 finds himself at -18 (10th) and Eddie Pepperell -16 (17th).
GIVE ZANDER HIS CARD NOW
Birdie-birdie start for Zander. The seven time DP World Tour runner-up leads by eight. Give him his card now and let him go home for Christmas early.
There are fast starts everywhere. I've played Infinitum several times and don't remember birdies being quite so easy to come by. American Davis Bryant is also -2 through two and well placed at -23.
LEADERBOARD UPDATE
LOMBARD, Zander -31 FOLLETT-SMITH, Benjamin - 23 MCKINNEY, Connor -23 BRYANT, Davis -23 RODRIGUES, Daniel -21 DEBOVE, Quentin -20 COCKERILL, Aaron -20 SHARMA, Shubhankar -20 KIMSEY, Nathan -19
CATCH ME IF YOU CAN
Here's the man they're all trying to catch in Spain. However, after that birdie at the 1st, it's looking very unlikely that anyone will.
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NEWS ON THE LEADER
Zander Lombard (now -30) has taken complete control in Spain and holds a eight-shot lead. What a fightback this has been. An ACL rupture and medial meniscus tear sustained playing padel last year put him out for almost eight months.
The South African returned to action in January. However, he didn't register a top-10 across his 23 starts on the Race to Dubai and lost his full playing privileges.
He'll surely about to put all that behind him. Starts the final round with a birdie.
GOOD MORNING ALL
Hello all, and welcome to Golf Monthly's final round coverage of DP World Tour Q-School, where we are in for a tense day here in Tarragona, Spain.
A total of 20 players, and ties, will earn DP World Tour cards for the 2026 season and, as the final group gets underway, the cut off mark is, currently, 16-under, with 47 players sat 10-under or better starting the final round.
In terms of the leader, Zander Lombard leads by seven going into the final round, with the South African searching for an instant return to the DP World Tour after losing his card.
Expect plenty of changes on Infinitum Golf's Lakes Course today, on what should be a thrilling final round!
