Qualifying for your first Open Championship is a special moment for any golfer. But for Australian Daniel Gaunt it is far more than that – it could save his career. After grabbing one of the four places on offer at Kilmarnock Barassie last night Gaunt revealed that he had given himself just three weeks either to make some money or to quit the game. “I don&apost want to, but I have two kids and a wife to support,” said the London-based professional. Since losing his European Tour card in 2004 Gaunt has been trying to make a living on the EuroPro Tour and also works a couple of days a week for a golf merchandising company in Sandown. They have offered him full-time employment and he added: “I will take the job and maybe get back to playing next year.” But should be shine at Turnberry next week, of course, he might be persuaded to go on playing. The one disappointment for him about the 36-hole final qualifying was that his brother Chris, a fellow professional who has been funding him for the last few weeks, missed out at Glasgow Gailes by just one shot. Remarkably, he was eliminated out when Scot Elliot Saltman, playing in the final group of the day, two-putted the final green to scrape through – and so join his more famous brother Lloyd in next week&aposs championship. Top amateur in the 2005 Open at St Andrews – he finished a brilliant 15th – Lloyd just made it through at Barassie by sinking an 18-foot birdie putt on the last. They will be the first brothers in The Open since Seve and Manuel Ballesteros at Birkdale in 1983. Austrian Markus Brier was the star of the qualifying. Playing alongside Jose Maria Olazabal and Barry Lane – they both failed – Brier had a course record 64 and a 66 for a 16 under par total, six better than anyone else. Denmark&aposs Peter Ellebye was alongside Saltman and Gaunt on 10 under thanks to an albatross two at the long eighth, where he holed a six-iron. At Glasgow Gailes Elliot Saltman went through along with former Ryder Cup player Peter Baker, Ireland&aposs David Higgins and South African Thomas Aiken, while at Western Gailes the successful quartet were Swede Fredrik Andersson Hed and English professionals Steve Surry, Thomas Haylock and Daniel Wardrop.