Six Europeans – Welsh Ryder Cup hero Phillip Price (pictured), England’s Brian Davis, Greg Owen and Sean Whiffen, Scot Alan McLean and Dane Soren Kjeldsen – have earned places in the US Tour qualifying school finals next month.

Ernie Els has called for belly putters to be banned – on the day that recent convert South African Trevor Immelman took the lead in the Deutsche Bank-SAP Open in Germany.