A golfer who chooses to play any shot under 50 yards with just his right hand has secured his place on next year's European Tour.

Englishman Jason Palmer, 30, will be one of 15 graduates from the Challenge Tour following victory in China and a second-place finish in Oman in his last two outings.

"It was impossible to score well as every time I missed a green in regulation it resulted in a bogey," he told BBC Sport. "Sometimes it was even worse, my short game was so destructive. I could hit every shot imaginable; fat, thin, even the odd double hit!

"I was practising with my friend Neil Chaudhuri and told him that I'd had enough as my short game was diabolical. I then showed him that I was fine with one hand.

"The strike was there. It was crisp, ball then turf every time, and consistently going where I wanted it to go. He said the decision to go one-handed was a no-brainer."

Palmer is currently ranked 266th in the world.