A 2019 European Tour card is now within reach of Dimitrios Papadatos after the Central Coast native saved his best round of the week until last to finish tied for fourth in the European Challenge Tour’s Made in Denmark Challenge.

Already a winner on the Challenge Tour this year, Papadatos’s round of 3-under 68 was bettered by only two players on Sunday as he moved up 12 spots on the leaderboard and earned 9,000 rankings points to move up to 12th on the Road to Ras Al Khaimah standings.

With three other top-20 finishes on the Challenge Tour this season to go with his win at the Portugal Open, the 26-year-old has been a model of consistency as he plots a finish inside the top 15 at season’s end and a full-time return to the main tour in 2019.

Papadatos was 3-under through 13 holes in the fourth round before dropping a shot at the par-4 14th, picking it up again straight away with a birdie at the par-4 15th.

It was an otherwise tough week for Aussies on the Challenge Tour with Jack Munro and Richard Green both missing the cut on the number and Ben Eccles and Jordan Zunic not making it to the weekend, Dane Joachim B Hansen winning on home soil by an impressive five shots.

This week the Challenge Tour is in the Czech Republic for the Prague Golf Challenge with Papadatos to lead a contingent of seven Australasians.