After a good performance at the treacherous Delhi Golf Club last week, Asian secondary Tour player Jake Stirling has a chance to step up this week when he is one of 14 Australians to play the inaugural World Classic Championship in Singapore.

Stirling is little known on the world stage but with a win and T2 in 12 starts on the Asian Development Tour in 2015 has shown he has the game to compete at a higher level.

His T28 finish at last week’s Panasonic Open in India was impressive on a golf course that demands some of the straightest hitting of any layout in the world.

Armed with confidence from that performance the 26-year-old will be looking to finish even higher in his eighth start for the year, some big cheques required over the final events of the season if he is to climb from 96th on the Order of Merit inside the top-60 who earn 2016 status.

While Stirling tries to break into the top-60, Kalem Richardson and Terry Pilkadaris will be trying to maintain their place inside that mark.
Richardson is 44th on the standings and Pilkadaris 49th but with five events left before the end of the year both will be keen to move up a few places.

Adam Groom and Scott Barr are just outside the number at 61 and 63 respectively as is Jake Higginbottom (68) though he has elected not to play this week.

Other Australians in the field are: Marcus Both, Rick Kulacz, Sam Brazel, Unho Park, Matthew Giles, Josh Younger, Paul Spargo, Jarrod Freeman and Peter Stojanovski.