Alfred Dunhill Links Championship
-20 A Meronk (Pol); -18 C Jarvis (SA), N Norgaard (Den); -17 M Stewart (Sco), T Fleetwood (Eng); -16 R MacIntyre (Sco), B Koepka (US)
Selected others: -13 C Syme (Sco); -12 S Bairstow (Eng), C Hill (Sco); -12 M Fitzpatrick (Eng), M Jordan (Eng); -11 D Law (Sco), R Mansell (Eng); -9 P Harrington (Ire), A Fitzpatrick (Eng), S Jamieson (Sco), C Adam (Sco), E Walker (Sco)
On Wednesday, Michael Stewart earned £2,500 for finishing runner-up successful the Tartan Pro Tour lawsuit astatine Duddingston Golf Club adjacent Edinburgh.
Four days later, the satellite fig 979 has conscionable picked up astir 100 times that by finishing associated 4th down victor Adrian Meronk astatine the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship.
But what the 36-year-old Scot regards arsenic "without doubt" the champion week of his vocation has near him with a dilemma.
Finishing successful the apical 10 - 2 shots down Poland's Meronk, 1 down Denmark's Niklas Norgaard and South Africa's Casey Jarvis, and tied with England's Tommy Fleetwood - means helium qualifies for adjacent week's big-money Spanish Open.
However, that clashes with the decision to the Tartan Pro Tour, the Gleneagles Masters, aft which Stewart volition suffice for adjacent year's second-tier Challenge Tour should helium support his existent 2nd place.
"Right now, successful each honesty, successful my mind, it's decidedly play the Tartan Pro Tour last astatine Gleneagles," Stewart said.
"If I don't spell and idiosyncratic overtakes me, I don't deliberation that's the close happening to do.
"I've played truthful good to enactment myself successful that presumption arsenic well. There's truthful galore bully players down me. One of 3 oregon 4 guys tin drawback maine and, if 1 of them plays well, they tin win.
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