PAUL Dwyer will be jetting out to the Spanish sunshine later this year, bidding to win a place on next season's European Tour.

Dwyer missed the cut in the final event of this summer's Mastercard Tour.

But his performances over the year, allied to a small slice of good fortune, have earned him exemption to the final qualifying phase of the European Tour School - a maximum of six rounds with the rest of Europe's hopefuls.

Dwyer, who is attached to Clitheroe, has been spared the pre-qualifying process which Burnley assistant Simon Eaton is currently undergoing at Wynyard in County Durham.

Eaton fired a one-over par 73 in his first round but slipped off the pace yesterday with a back problem to effectively end his chances of reaching the next stage in Spain.

That's where Dwyer will be heading to battle it out in an effort to win a potentially lucrative place on the full tour next summer.

The Simonstone-based player was given a head start after finishing ninth in the final Mastercard Tour order of merit with earnings of £5,452 from eight tournaments, despite missing the cut at the Commer Inns Mastercard event at Rudding Park, Harrogate where he was three-over par after two rounds.

Requiring a top-eight finish to guarantee being spared the Tour School's opening test, Dwyer was handed his exemption because the top two players in the order of merit have Challenge Tour categories for next season which also earned them pre-booked flights to Spain.

MYTTON Fold's course record was broken for the second time this summer when five-handicapper Steve Sykes won the club's September medal with a three under par 69 (nett 64). Sykes, a former assistant at Prestwich, beat by one stroke the record set by Danny Murphy earlier this summer.

Sykes, 30, could even afford the luxury of dropping three shots in his closing three holes.

CLITHEROE'S Kim Rostron will be helping England's attempt to set a record-breaking eighth straight win in the Home Internationals at Royal Dornoch in Scotland next week.

Rostron has just returned from Canada where she reaped the most points of any player in the Commonwealth Tournament at Vancouver.

Her 7.5-point haul helped Great Britain finish second behind Australia, and ahead of Canada, South Africa and New Zealand.

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