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Carter survives Tour school ordeal

Mark Garrod
Thursday 13 November 2003 01:00 GMT
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Five years after lifting the World Cup with Nick Faldo, David Carter rescued his European tour career yesterday.

The 31-year-old, who also beat Colin Montgomerie in a play-off for the Irish Open in 1998, survived the six-round ordeal of the Tour's qualifying school with two shots to spare.

Carter, forced to put himself to the test after falling to 124th on the Order of Merit, did not top the class like he did on his last visit to the school in 1994, but a closing 67 achieved the main objective of a place in the top 35 who earn cards for next season.

The 108-hole event was won by Essex's Richard McEvoy, a member of the winning Walker Cup side in America in 2001, who, along with Steve O'Hara, will now join his other team-mates Nick Dougherty, Graeme McDowell, Luke Donald and Jamie Elson on the circuit.

McEvoy, who missed out by one shot a year ago, finished with a 67 for a 28-under-par 400, three ahead of Australia's Wade Ormsby and five in front of Ireland's Damien McGrane and the Dane Jeppe Huldahl.

The 1995 Ryder Cup hero Philip Walton failed to qualify, but Ben Banks, 25, the son of the former Genesis keyboard player Tony, did so at the second attempt.

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