{"id":36074,"date":"2026-10-11T12:03:32","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T12:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/alfred-dunhill-links-michael-stewart-up-496-places-after-fourth-place-finish\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T12:03:32","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T12:03:32","slug":"alfred-dunhill-links-michael-stewart-up-496-places-after-fourth-place-finish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/alfred-dunhill-links-michael-stewart-up-496-places-after-fourth-place-finish\/","title":{"rendered":"Alfred Dunhill Links: Michael Stewart up 496 places after fourth-place finish"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Alfred Dunhill Links Championship<\/b><\/p>\n

-20<\/b> A Meronk (Pol); -18 <\/b> C Jarvis (SA), N Norgaard (Den); -17 <\/b>M Stewart (Sco), T Fleetwood (Eng); -16<\/b> R MacIntyre (Sco), B Koepka (US)<\/p>\n

Selected others: -13<\/b> C Syme (Sco); -12<\/b> S Bairstow (Eng), C Hill (Sco); -12<\/b> M Fitzpatrick (Eng), M Jordan (Eng); -11 <\/b>D Law (Sco), R Mansell (Eng); -9<\/b> P Harrington (Ire), A Fitzpatrick (Eng), S Jamieson (Sco), C Adam (Sco), E Walker (Sco)<\/p>\n

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On Wednesday, Michael Stewart earned \u00a32,500 for finishing runner-up in the Tartan Pro Tour event at Duddingston Golf Club near Edinburgh. <\/b><\/p>\n

Four days later, the 36-year-old picked up nearly 100 times that by finishing joint fourth behind winner Adrian Meronk at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship – “without doubt” the best week of his career and a potentially career-changing one.<\/p>\n

Stewart, who has jumped from 979th in the world rankings to 483 as a result, had thought he might have to return to Tartan Tour season finale at Gleneagles to protect his second place, which comes with it promotion to the second-tier Challenge Tour.<\/p>\n

But finishing in the top 10 at St Andrews – two shots behind Poland’s Meronk, one behind Denmark’s Niklas Norgaard and South Africa’s Casey Jarvis, and tied with England’s Tommy Fleetwood – means he qualifies for this week’s big-money Spanish Open.<\/p>\n

And, thanks to advice from Sunday playing partner MJ Daffue, he is instead already flying to Madrid as that should give him an even better chance of making the Challenge Tour.<\/p>\n

“After speaking to the tour and having things laid out for me, there is a thing I never knew existed called the [DP World Tour] Non-Member Points List,” Stewart told The Scotsman.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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