Scottish golfer opens up on fight he faces to win back DP World Tour card

But, rather than looking at his appearance in this week’s DP World Tour Qualifying School Final Stage at Tarragona as a negative, the 33-year-old Aberdonian is determined to try and view it as something positive.

“I’ve never been to the Q-School before in this situation,” said Law of finding himself involved in the six-round card battle at Infinitum Golf after ending up outside the top 114 in this season’s Race to Dubai to lose the seat he’d occupied at the top table since 2019.

“I’ve always been one of the guys in the field who is excited because I’ve got a chance to win a DP World Tour card. On this occasion, you’ve got guys who are in that position then guys like me who don’t want to be there. 

“Ultimately, I need to get my head round that and turn it into a positive, so the way I am looking at it is that I have lost my card a week and a half ago and now I’ve got a chance to win it back. You know, what an opportunity that is.”

Law, who is flying the Saltire along with Stephen Gallacher, Marc Warren and Ryan Lumsden in the fight to finish in the top 20 and ties, ended up 119th in the points list after making the cut in seven of his last eight events.

“Obviously I am disappointed to lose my card but, at the same time, I was really pleased with the fight I showed to try and keep it and, you know, I wasn’t far off doing it in the end,” said the 2019 ISPS Handa Vic Open winner. 

“I started to play some good stuff over the last few weeks of the season and was only missing a big week. Ultimately. I left myself with a lot of work to do through the golf I played in the first three-quarters of the year.

“At the same time, though, I was much happier about the way I was playing and was also in a much better place mentally on the course. I was seeing golf shots and felt I was back to swinging it how I was a couple of years ago and was playing really good at that time.”

Others in the same boat as Law include Edoardo Molinari, a three-time DP World Tour winner and now one of Luke Donald’s trusty Ryder Cup vice-captains, and 2018 Qatar Masters and British Masters champion Eddie Pepperell.

“I’ve got six rounds to do it, which I think is great,” said Law, who has shaken off a calf injury that he was struggling with in the final round of the regular season in Korea. 

“If you are going to get a card, you probably need to throw in a low number at some point, but it’s not necessarily going to be that that is going to do it for you. It’s going to be the days around it, the one and two unders that you pick up.

“It’s an endurance test but, over the final ten weeks of the season, I feel my game has been progressing and now it’s a case of trying to keep that going through good and efficient work. All the support I’ve had the last wee while has been great and now I’ve just got to go out there and get it done.”