Irish boys make a solid start to tour school.

Colm Moriarty who had a very ordinary season on the Challenge tour made a great start to the 6 round qualifying school with a 5 under par 65 around the TOUR COURSE at the PGA CATALUNYA complex in SPAIN.

He finds himself 5 shots behind the leader,Julien Gurrier who had a brilliant round of 10 under par 60.There is 5 players on 6 under including Jarmo Sandelin who had the best score of 66 around the STADIUM PAR 72 COURSE.

Gary Murphy had a great finish around the Stadium course when he eagled the par 5 12th and a further birdie left him around in 3 under par 69 and a share of 29th, alongside Simon Thornton and Johnny Caldwell who were both on the Tour course.

Niall Kearney who turned Professional just before the final qualifying had 3 birdies and 3 bogies around the Stadium course for a level par round of 72.

John Kelly was pretty upset with his last 4 holes.He was level par after 14 holes,before going double bogey,bogey and bogey before recovering to birdie the last for a 2 over par 72 and is way down in 119th place.

156 golfers are in action for 72 holes(36 on the Tour course and 36 on the Stadium course.)There will be a cut made after that with the lucky ones that get through will play a further 36 holes and the top 30 and ties will get a tour card for 2010.

IRISH SCORES
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TOUR COURSE
JT 7TH COLM MORIARTY 65 -5.
JT 29TH JOHNNY CALDWELL,SIMON THORNTON 67 -3.
119TH JOHN KELLY 72 +2.

STADIUM COURSE.

JT 29TH GARY MURPHY 69 -3.
JT 82ND NIALL KEARNEY 72 PAR.