Shane Lowry will join a number of fellow European Tour members in taking advantage before the advent of new changes and enter this year’s PGA Tour Qualifying School.

TEXAN Harrison Frazar captured his first victory on the PGA US Tour in Memphis, Tennessee, yesterday when he defeated Sweden’s Robert Karlsson at the third tie hole of a “sudden death” play-off after they had tied on 13 under par after the regulation 72 holes.

BRAY’S Keith Nolan has revived his professional golfing career on the back of a fighting performance in the US Tour School that ended yesterday with the sixth and final round over the PGA West and Jack Nicklaus Tour courses in Florida.

THE OCCASION was the 2003 US Masters. Tiger Woods was the defending champion, by a distance the game’s finest player and a man who held the American public enthralled.