Roger Chapman first won his European Tour card in 1981 and was forced to return to the tour school - known as the "torture chamber" to all involved - at the end of 1999 in order to secure his playing rights for the 2000 season.

In all that time on tour, Chapman had never won a tournament - although he had finished second on no fewer than six occasions - but he belatedly broke his duck in faraway Brazil in March when he beat Padraig Harrington in a playoff in the Brazil Rio de Janeiro Open.

"Last year I felt so low I was going to give up. I lost my card and I thought my whole world had fallen apart. I wasn't going to go to the qualifying school but then, tragically, Payne Stewart died and I looked at myself and thought: `He wanted to play but can't anymore; I can play but don't want to'. I took a long, serious look at myself and decided to go to the school and came through.