As the American golf season begins to wind down two Australians are on the verge of achieving the ultimate goal of a place on the PGA TOUR for 2016. But they need to play well to achieve it.

Rhein Gibson and Mathew Goggin lie 27^th
and 28^th respectively on the Web.com Tour money list

and have four events remaining to break
into the top 25 and guarantee PGA TOUR status for next season.

Steve Allan, at 34^th on the
standings, is also a chance if he can have consistently strong performances for
the next month but it is Gibson and Goggin who are the best chance to advance
to the world’s premiere Tour.

Goggin has had a bizarre 2015 since winning
the opening event of the calendar. The Tasmanian veteran has suffered an
inexplicably poor run of form since the victory with his last start T37 a
fortnight ago breaking a streak of eight consecutive missed cuts.

Having played the PGA TOUR a total of 10
seasons since 2000 Goggin will be keen to get back to the highest level while
for Gibson it would represent the next step in a career that has been on an
almost permanent upward trajectory.

Previously best known for his world record
score of 55, which he shot in 2012 in the US, the 29-year-old has proven a
talented player who has achieved at every level of the game.

Having earned his Web.com Tour card last
year he has shown flashes of brilliance in 2015 to put himself in a position to
advance to the PGA TOUR where it would be no surprise to see him achieve
ongoing success.

Allan, like Goggin, has spent multiple
seasons on the PGA TOUR and if he can make the 25 will relish the opportunity
to once again compete at the highest level.

His season to date has been a mixed bag
featuring just one top-10 and despite missing the cut at his last outing he
will be motivated to push hard for the end of the season.

Those three spearhead a 13 strong
contingent of Australians in this week’s field with most of the rest
realistically playing for the chance to compete in the four tournament series
that has replaced Q-School.

Oliver Goss sits just outside the top-50
earners though with his prodigious talent a win, or even two, is not out of the
question in the push to year’s end.

At 21 Goss has proved beyond doubt he has
the tools to play at the very highest level but at this stage lacks the
consistency to contend week in and week out.

His aggressive style of play has seen him shoot
some low scores over the course of the year (17 of 45 rounds under 70) but it
is also all too often responsible for a big number ruining his scorecard.

The top-75 after the Win Co Foods Open at
the end of August will be eligible for the four tournament play-off series to
determine cards for the 2016 PGA TOUR season while the top-100 retain automatic
rights for the Web.com Tour next year.

Rod Pampling (10^th), Gibson,
Goggin, Allan and Goss are currenrly the only Australians inside the top-75
with several languishing outside the 100 mark.

Bronson La’Cassie (78), Brett Drewitt (85),
James Nitties (90) and Aron Price (99) are all inside the top-100 but Alistair
Presnell (114), Ash Hall (119), Adam Crawford (124), Bryden Macpherson (137)
and Nick Flanagan (157) are struggling.

All 13 are in the field this week and all
have plenty to play for.