Ryan Fox has stormed home with a 7-under 64 and a top-10 finish at the Italian Open to keep in-tact a brilliant record at the European Tour’s lucrative Rolex Series events.

The long hitting New Zealander leapfrogged 15 players with his Sunday brilliance, a run of five consecutive birdies from the 12^th to 15^th seeing him race up the standings to T8.

Only two players went lower in the final round at the Gardagolf Country Club where Thorbjorn Olesen claimed his fifth European Tour title.

Fox has missed just two cuts in the 10 Rolex Series events played to date but has posted four top-10 finishes, two of those top fives.

Encouragingly, the two cuts he missed in 2017 were at the BMW PGA Championship and Italian Open where he finished T43 and T8 this year.

Fox played excellent golf all week with rounds of 69-68-67 ahead of his Sunday fireworks, the cheque for €119,146 moving him to 34^th on the Race to Dubai, just two places behind Wade Ormsby.

Fox wasn’t the only Australasian to come home with a wet sail in Italy with Jason Scrivener and Adam Bland also moving up several places on the back of Sunday scores of 65.

Scott Hend was next best of the Australasians behind Fox at 15-under and T14 but Scrivener jumped 21 places to be T21 and Bland 30 spots to T23.

Hend actually dropped three places on the leaderboard despite a final round of 3-under 68 but after a run of three consecutive missed cuts he will be pleased with his play.

Seven of the 11 Australasians in the field qualified for the weekend, Brett Rumford posting a T42 result and Josh Geary a shot further back and T51.

Wade Ormsby was in decent position after three rounds but battled Sunday and dropped five shots to fall 48 places down the standings to T71.

Jason Norris, Marcus Fraser, Andrew Dodt and Sam Brazel were the four to miss the cut.