Perth’s Connor McKinney earns DP World Tour card
Connor McKinney – file image Australian Golf Media
Australia will have one further representative on the DP World Tour next season following the completion of Qualifying in Spain overnight.
Perth’s Connor McKinney was in or near the lead following his brilliant opening round of 62, eventually finishing 2nd to South Africa’s Zander Lombard and claiming one of the cards for the 2025/2026 season handed out following the 108 hole marathon at Infinitum Golf in Tarragona in Spain.
Scottish born, McKinney, the Australian Amateur Champion in 2022, finished runner-up in the Victorian Open earlier this year and played several events on the development Tartan Pro Tour in Scotland during 2025, winning one.
McKinney now gets to play events such as the Australian PGA Championship and the Australian Open, both of which are jointly sanctioned by the PGA Tour of Australasia and the DP World Tour.
While the news was excellent for McKinney, it was not so for South Australian Jack Buchanan, who agonisingly missed out on one of the 20 cards by just one shot. Buchanan bogeyed his final hole today to miss out on securing one of the cards handed out to not only the top twenty but all those who finished on their score.
Buchanan, who won two events on last year’s PGA Tour of Australasia, also narrowly missed out on gaining his card via the PGA Tour of Australasian Order of Merit last season, missing out on one of the three spots by one position.
