Tour success means grabbing chances when they come along and Gavin Moynihan has an opportunity in Spain after he came through an 11-man playoff to make the match play stages of the Andalucía Costa del Sol Match Play 9 at La Cala Resort.

Only the top 32 after two strokeplay rounds made today's matchplay stages but after a 67 left him in an 11-man shoot-out for five spots on three under 137, Moynihan birdied the first playoff hole to secure a first round clash with Spain's Scott Fernandez.

Derry's Ruaidhri McGee was the only other Irish qualifier thanks to a second round 66 and he now plays Scotland's David Law.

Moynihan made it through the playoff along with England’s Billy Hemstock and Sam Hutsby progressed after they all birdied the first extra hole.

Switzerland’s Joel Girrbach and Denmark’s Rasmus Hjelm prevailed at the second play-off hole, which they both birdied.

Matchplay draw

1. FRA Robin SCIOT-SIEGRIST v Clément SORDET FRA 
2. ENG Paul HOWARD v Toby TREE ENG 
3. FIN Jaakko MAKITALO v Aaron RAI ENG 
4. GER Julian KUNZENBACHER v Billy HEMSTOCK ENG 
5. AUS Ben ECCLES v Mark TULLO CHI 
6. AUS Jordan ZUNIC v Oliver LINDELL FIN 
7. ENG Tom MURRAY v Ryan MCCARTHY AUS 
8. FRA Julien BRUN v Joel GIRRBACH SUI 
9. IRL Gavin MOYNIHAN v Scott FERNANDEZ ESP 
10. NED Maarten LAFEBER v Pablo MARTIN BENAVIDES ESP 
11. FIN Kalle SAMOOJA v Marcus KINHULT SWE 
12. FRA Victor RIU v Rasmus HJELM DEN 
13. ESP Carlos DEL MORAL v Victor PEREZ FRA 
14. AUT Manuel TRAPPEL v Matthew BALDWIN ENG 
15. SCO David LAW v Ruaidhri MCGEE IRL 
16. ENG Charlie FORD v Sam HUTSBY ENG 

Qualifiers

130 C Ford (Eng) 63 67, 

132 J Brun (Fra) 70 62, J Kunzenbacher (Ger) 65 67, 

133 V Riu (Fra) 61 72, 

134 M Tullo (Chi) 68 66, S Fernandez (Esp) 69 65, C Sordet (Fra) 68 66, V Perez (Fra) 66 68, 

135 J Zunic (Aus) 68 67, M Lafeber (Ned) 66 69, M Trappel (Aut) 69 66, P Howard (Eng) 67 68, 

136 M Kinhult (Swe) 70 66, A Rai (Eng) 67 69, 

137 R McCarthy (Aus) 72 65, T Murray (Eng) 69 68, J Makitalo (Fin) 69 68, D Law (Sco) 71 66, P Martin Benavides (Esp) 67 70, R McGee (Irl) 71 66, K Samooja (Fin) 68 69, 

138 M Baldwin (Eng) 71 67, C Del Moral (Esp) 69 69, O Lindell (Fin) 71 67, B Eccles (Aus) 69 69, R Sciot-Siegrist (Fra) 68 70, T Tree (Eng) 74 64, 

[Moynihan, Hemstock, Hutsby, Girrbach and Hjelm progressed after 11-man playoff]

139 E Van Rooyen (RSA) 68 71, H Casey (Eng) 66 73, S Hutsby (Eng) 67 72, G Moynihan (Irl) 72 67, C Braeunig (Ger) 70 69, R Hjelm (Den) 69 70, N Geyger (Chi) 69 70, J Girrbach (Sui) 68 71, B Hemstock (Eng) 69 70, B Neil (Sco) 70 69, R McIntyre (am) (Sco) 70 69, 

CUT

142 C Sharvin (Nir) 70 72,

143 D McElroy (Nir) 74 70, K Phelan (Irl) 78 66, 

160 R McNamara (Irl) 78 82, 

RTD C Selfridge (Nir)