Rod Pampling is all but assured of returning full time to the PGA TOUR next year thanks to his Web.com Tour money list position and showed he still has the game for the big leagues finishing top Australian in this week’s Barracuda Championship in Nevada.

Pampling
amassed 29 points under the modified stableford scoring system, which awards
two points for a birdie, five for an eagle, zero for a par, -1 for a bogey and
-3 for a double bogey or worse, at the Montreux course to be T29 for the
week.

With
aggressive golf rewarded the aim is to make as many birdies as possible and
Pampling delivered with 25 for the week against six bogeys and a double.

Six
Australians teed up at the opposite field tournament with three making the cut,
Pampling joined at the weekend by Greg Chalmers and Robert Allenby.

Desperately in
need of FedEx Cup points Chalmers produced his best golf of the week in the
final round with a 13 point effort but at T53 remains 171^st in the
FedEx Cup standings.

Barring a win
in the final event of the season in a fortnight Chalmers will have to tee up in
the upcoming four tournament qualifying series if he is to return to the PGA
TOUR as a full member next year.

Robert
Allenby’s game showed signs of life in Nevada with 17 birdies over the four
days to play the weekend for the first time since the FedEx St Jude Classic in
June.

Two missed
cuts and two withdrawals since then have seen the four time TOUR winner fall to
182^nd in the FedEx Cup and likely needing to use a career money list
exemption to tee up full time next year.

Defending
champion Geoff Ogilvy surprisingly missed the cut as did Aaron Baddeley and
Cameron Percy.

Both Baddeley
and Percy could ill afford the poor performance as both began the week outside
the top 140 on the FedEx Cup list and both have now fallen outside the top 150.

Only the top
125 after the Wyndham Championship in two weeks are guaranteed cards for next
season and Baddeley and Percy now likely need top 10 finishes there, at worst,
to avoid the qualifying tournament series which has replaced Q-School.