Four missed cuts in his first five starts
wasn’t the start to 2016 Peter Lonard was looking for but the veteran has found
something in his game in recent weeks, producing a final round 63 at this
week’s Air Capital Classic in Kansas.

Lonard, who will be eligible for the over-50’s
circuit in 2017, is a one time winner on the PGA TOUR and is using 2016 as a
warm-up for next year’s Champions Tour.

With seven birdies and no bogies on Sunday,
Lonard jumped 40 places up the leaderboard but, more importantly, will have
gotten a big confidence boost.

It was Lonard’s sixth score in the 60’s in
his last 16 rounds after not breaking 70 in his first 13 rounds of the year.

Having started the day at even par for the
tournament the score took him to 7-under for the week and T39, the best of the
three Australians to make the cut.

Rhein Gibson (T73) and Steve Allan (82^nd)
also qualified for the weekend but both struggled to make headway in the final
two rounds.

Gibson’s Sunday 74 dropped him 41 places
down the leaderboard while Allan’s Saturday 76 already had him at the tail of
the field and a Sunday 73 confirmed that position.

Mathew Goggin, Brett Drewitt, Greg Chalmers,
Oliver Goss and Bryden Macpherson all missed the cut which came at 3-under
after 36 holes.