Gregorio De Leo, after a wonderful efficiency all within the prime rankings, completed eighth with 408 (67 66 69 71 68 67, -20) strokes within the Remaining Stage of the Qualifying Faculty, performed over 108 holes, and received one of many twenty class 18 ‘playing cards’ for the DP World Tour 2026 assigned to the highest of the rankings. The others, from twenty first to sixtieth place, earned a Class 21 spot on the primary circuit, with fewer alternatives to play, and a full 'card' for the 2026 HotelPlanner Tour.
Gregorio De Leo, outcomes
On the Infinitum Golf in Tarragona, Spain, the place the 156 opponents alternated for 72 holes on the 2 programs, the Lakes Course (par 71) and the Hills Course (par 72), and the 60 who made the minimize completed on the previous course, South African Zander Lombard dominated with a 391 (64 69 67 64 64 63, -37). He completed with a 63 (-8, 9 birdies, one bogey), the most effective spherical of the spherical, leaving Canadian Aaron Cockerill, Indian Shubhankar Sharma, and Australian Connor McKinney 13 strokes behind, in second with 404 (-24), and Portugal's Daniel Rodrigues and England's Nathan Kimsey 15 strokes behind, in fifth with 406 (-22). In seventh place with 407 (-21) was Frenchman Quentin Debove, a member of the Alps Tour, whereas De Leo was joined by American Davis Bryant, Zimbabwe's Benjamin Follett-Smith, and England's Matthew Baldwin.
Three different Italians participated within the event: Lorenzo Scalise, twenty ninth with 413 (-15), Jacopo Vecchi Fossa, forty ninth with 418 (-10), and Matteo Cristoni, sixtieth with 422 (-6). Everybody has a "card" for the 2026 HotelPlanner Tour, however the prime two already had it: Scalise, who was confirmed on this yr's Street To Mallorca (order of advantage), and Vecchi Fossa, who earned it by ending second within the Alps Tour rankings. Cristoni earned it by beginning with Stage 1, received at Golfclub Schloss Ebreichsdorf in Austria, and transferring on to Stage 2 (sixteenth at Desert Springs Golf Membership in Almeria, Spain).
Gregorio De Leo earned his "card" for the second consecutive yr on the Qualifying Faculty, after ending thirteenth final yr within the competitors received by Edoardo Molinari. This season, he completed one hundred and thirtieth within the order of advantage (out of the 115 confirmed to stay on the tour), incomes a Class 10 end, which might have restricted his appearances. Now, with Class 18, he could have a greater likelihood. Within the last spherical, he shot a partial 67 (-4) with 4 birdies and no bogeys.
Failing to return to the circuit, the place they’d additionally performed main roles, had been Spain's Gonzalo Fernandez Castaño, seven victories, together with two within the Italian Open (2007, 2012), France's Julien Quesne (2), additionally a winner within the Italian Open (2013), Gregory Bourdy (4) and Alexander Levy (5), Denmark's Lucas Bjerregaard (2), Scotland's Marc Warren (4), England's Chris Wooden (3) and Oliver Wilson (2), Germany's Yannik Paul (1), Paraguayan Fabrizio Zanotti (2), and South Africa's Justin Harding (2) and George Coetzee (5).
Lombard acquired a verify for €5,000 from a prize pool of €120,000.
