Chris Wood Gains His Card For The 2009 European Season

Over the past two months of being a member of Bleacher Report, I have tried to keep you up to date with up and coming English golfer Chris Wood, who has recently secured his card for the 2009 European season.

The twenty year old from Bristol rose to stardom, by ending in a tie for fifth at the Open Championship in June with Jim Furyk.

He subsequently got some sponsored invites to some European Tour events and even finished in tenth place at the Portuguese Masters.

He then went to qualifying school and finished well into the top thirty places that would gain a card, as he finished on a fifth place 15-under-par round .

He showed great composure by creeping up the leader board every day.

The qualifying school is famously a gruelling and painful task with six rounds of golf over two courses in a PGA course in Spain.

Wood, whose caddy is his own father, Richard, is now of too play in two tournaments in the Christmas period in South Africa, by which time he will be 20.

I think that this young Englishman does have the potential to be at the top of European golf within the next few years and has shown the talent and composure to compete against the best.

Thanks for the support and questions about Chris Wood and would be happy to answer any more that you have.

These are the thirty two lucky players who secured a card for the 2009 European Tour season:

Oskar Henningsson (Sweden)
Carlos Del Moral (Spain)
Wade Ormsby (Australia)
Danny Willett (England)
Joakim Haeggman (Sweden)
Chris Wood (England)
Eirik Tage Johansen (Norway)
Michael Hoey (Northern Ireland)
Ake Nilsson (Sweden)
Bernd Wiesberger (Austria)
Gary Clark (England)
Andrew Coltart (Scotland)
Chinnarat Phadungsil (Thailand)
Anthony Snobeck (France)
Chris Doak (Scotland)
David Drysdale (Scotland)
Lorenzo Gagli (Italy)
Matthew Millar (Australia)
Fabrizio Zanotti (Paraguay)
Michael Curtain (Australia)
Callum MaCauley (Scotland)
Marco Ruiz (Paraguay)
Inder van Weerelt (Netherlands)
Marc Cayeux (Zimbabwe)
Branden Grace (South Africa)
Stuart Manley (Wales)
John Mellor (England)
Henrik Nystrom (Sweden)
Jonathan Caldwell (Northern Ireland)
Federico Colombo (Italy)
Alfredo Garcia-Heredia (Spain)
Santiago Luna (Spain)