BASINGSTOKE golfer Stuart Archibald will not compete at the EuroPro Tour’s year-ending Matchroom Sport Tour Championship after missing the cut at the final event of the regular season.

The 31-year-old from Worting travelled to Princes Golf Club, in Kent, for the Hotelplanner.com Championship, but was unable to qualify for the final round.

After an opening round of 72 (+1), he went bogey-free on day two, making birdies at the second, eighth and 13th holes to shoot a three-under-par round of 68.

It was a fine score, but not quite enough to see Archibald through to the final day, the Basingstoke man missing the cut by a single stroke.

As a result, he slipped to 71st on the EuroPro Tour’s Race to Desert Springs standings, outside the top-60 place he needed to play at the Matchroom Sport Tour Championship, the tour’s grand finale.

It has been a disappointing and injury-hit EuroPro season for three-time winner Archibald, who has failed to complete nine of the 12 tournaments he has competed at.

His best result was a sixth-place finish at the Eagle Orchid Scottish Masters.

Archibald will now turn his attention to the resumption of the MENA Tour, which is played in the Middle East.

He sits fourth on the order of merit heading into the Dubai Creek Open, which gets under way at the Dubai Creek Golf and Yacht Club on Sunday.