Test of nerves as Tour hopefuls return to school

SAN ROQUE, a superb 36-hole golfing complex on the Costa del Sol, will next week play host to the young and not so young hopefuls for the annual European Tour School.

Irishmen Colm Moriarty and Stephen Browne (who has qualified for the 2006 main tour but will be seeking an even stronger card), will be there along with those successful at this week’s pre-qualifiers on two other Spanish courses.

For the second successive year, San Roque is the venue for this nerve-wracking events and it is difficult to imagine a more suitable test, not least because of its water-strewn final two holes.