John Senden has double motivation at this week’s Deutsche Bank Championship, his future in the FedEx Cup play-offs and a last chance to make the Presidents Cup team both on the line for the Queenslander in Boston.

Senden is one of five Australians to advance to the second playoff event but is the only one outside the top-70, currently 81st and in need of a good week to move on to to next week’s BMW Championship.

But Senden has extra motivation this week, the 44-year-old desperate to be part of a Presidents Cup team for the first time and likely needing a Captain’s pick to achieve the dream.

Senden is 13th in the official standings behind Byeong-Hun An and Steven Bowditch and unlikely to leapfrog both and gain automatic selection. However, a repeat of last year’s performance at TPC Boston might be enough to gain Nick Price’s attention.

Senden finished T5 at the 2014 Deutsche Bank with blistering weekend rounds of 67-66 and comes into the week in good form after a final round 67 at The Barclays.

He has never missed the cut at TPC Boston and while he has only had one other top-10 outside of last year’s heroics he will definitely bring good memories to the first tee.

While Senden likely needs a Captain’s pick Steven Bowditch is a good chance to play his way into automatic selection with a high finish this week.

Only fractions separate the Queenslander and current 10th place holder Danny Lee with Lee struggling for form in recent weeks.

Bowditch finished hot at the Barclays after a slow start, his final round 64 beaten only by Jason Day’s final round fireworks.

2014 was Bowditch’s only appearance in a playoff event here and while he finished T45 that was mostly due to having to recover from an opening round 77.

His final round 65 last year suggests a liking for the course and as the undisputed most improved player in terms of consistency for 2015 he will like his chances this week.

Matt Jones, Marc Leishman and Jason Day round out the Australian challenge, Day clearly among the favourites after another scintillating performance last week.

With both Rory McIlroy and Jordan Spieth in the field this week the 27-year-old will not be short on motivation as he tries to push his way into Player of the Year considerations.

That would require a Herculean effort, including winning at least one of the three remaining Playoff events as well as the FedEX Cup itself, but there is no reason that run can’t start at TPC Boston.

Day has a liking for the course having finished T7 in 2014 but also has a runner-up (2010) and a T3 (2011) on his resume.

Fatigue will be his only potential issue this week but that will be offset by the adrenaline of the past six weeks where the World Number 3 is a staggering 73-under-par for his last 20 rounds.

Both the final two Australians in the field are reasonably comfortable in the top-70 and likely to advance to next week’s event which means the goal for Matt Jones (57th) and Marc Leishman (61st)  is to push for a place in the top-30 and a spot in the season ending TOUR Championship.

Leishman has played the final event of the season only once, in 2009, while Jones has never advanced beyond the BMW tournament.

Jones’ record at TPC Boston is indifferent with a missed cut and a best of T33 in three appearances while Leishman has teed up six times for a best finish of T15 with only two results inside the top-20.