Nick Cullen has the chance to break into the top 15 on the Challenge Tour’s season long points race with a good showing this week in Sweden.

The 2014 Australian Masters winner is less than €10,000 behind the 15th placed player in the standings with 14 tournaments remaining on the schedule.

Cullen, hunting one of the 15 European Tour cards available to the top earners at season’s end, will tee up in a confident mood at the Swedish Challenge after some good recent results.

The left hander has made all six cuts in his season so far to be 28^th on the Road to Oman, a top five and top 20 in his last two outings testament to the current state of his game.

Cullen is one of three Australians in the field at the Katrineholms GK course, Ben Eccles and Scott Arnold also teeing up.

Arnold is playing 2017 on a medical exemption and while his results have not yet been what he was hoping for there were glimpses of good golf last week.

The former World Number One amateur was on track to make his first cut of the season before an untimely triple bogey saw him fall outside the number.

Eccles, too, will be disappointed with his form to date as he plays his first full year on the secondary Tour.

After an encouraging start to the season with a top 10 at the main Tour’s Tshwane Open, the 2015 NSW Open winner has struggled for consistency to be 71st on the Road to Oman.

A T26 finish last week in France, however, suggest his game may be moving in the right direction.