LAURIE Canter is hoping he can emulate last season’s heroics as he aims for a second season at Europe’s top table.

The Cumberwell Park golfer enjoyed his first season on the European Tour this term after earning his card at Qualifying School last year.

Having failed to finish high enough on the order of merit to get a guaranteed spot next season, Canter is back at Qualifying School in Spain.

The 26-year-old enters at the second stage at Panoramica Golf Resort, Castellon, and goes into the event with a different attitude.

“I’ve been to it a few times now and I got through last year,” he said. “I think you just have to really knuckle down, don’t make too much of a fuss and try and get into what you are doing.

“It is a week where, if you’re not careful, you’ll get distracted and look at scores and what you think you need to do.

“It is all irrelevant, you just need to go out and post the best score you can on the day - I think if you do that in golf generally, if that is your goal, then usually you get the result you deserve and you have given yourself the best chance of doing your best.

“You know what you need to do and I find the whole process quite fun.

“I think too many people look at it in a burdening sort of way, what Qualifying School does is it gives you an opportunity to earn a place on the European Tour and that is all it is.

“You haven’t gone there with anything to lose and everyone who is in that process is in the same boat.”

Canter will not be looking past this weekend until it is over before deciding on where his career will go forward but he already has an invitation to the Alfred Dunhill tournament in December and is hoping it will be as a full member of the European Tour and not as a one-off event.

“You just have to focus on these two weeks and see where you end up after that,” said Canter, who has taken many lessons from his first season on the Tour.

“Hopefully, I will be going down there as a fully-fledged member of the 2017 season but there is a long way to go.

“Hard work is something that gets banded around a lot and you have to work hard at top level sport and I think that goes without saying.

“For me, one lesson I will take is to trust myself and to work smart.”

Fellow Cumberwell Park golfer Steve Surry will be taking to the fairways at Lumine Golf & Beach Club.

The 34-year-old is aiming to make it to the final stage of Q-School, which starts at the Catalunya Resort, Girona, on November 12.

l EAST Knoyle’s Ben Stow is also chasing a place on next year’s European Tour.

Stow, from the Rushmore club, shot an opening round 68 - four under par - at the second-tier Challenge Tour’s NBO Golf Classic Grand Final at Al Mouj Golf in Oman.

The 25 year old needs a high finish to push his way into the top 15 on the final Road to Oman standings and secure European Tour playing rights for 2017.