Little looks for a ‘great escape’

WEST HAM fan Sam Little believes it will be a “great escape” to eclipse that of the Hammers in the Premier League last season if he can keep his European Tour card in the Mallorca Classic.

All looked lost for the Londoner three weeks ago when he lay outside the top 170 on the Order of Merit with only three events left to climb into the 118 and avoid an immediate return to the qualifying school.

But the 32-year-old was then joint seventh in the Madrid Open to qualify for the following week’s Portugal Masters and, after finishing 34th there, now finds himself in a share of fifth place in the rain-affected Mallorca Classic.