Oliver Goss has produced the best finish of his rookie Web.com Tour season with a top-10 at the Nova Scotia Open while Stuart Appleby has made a pleasing comeback to the game.

Goss, a former amateur standout has, long been touted as a star of the future but had been struggling much of this year despite a solid start.

With six missed cuts in eight starts since March things were looking worrying but the West Australian, who finished low amateur at the 2013 US Masters, found form this week with four sub par rounds.

Goss has always had the ability to shoot low scores but his aggressive style of play also sees bogeys creep onto his card.

He found the Ashburn Golf Club to his liking with 19 birdies and an eagle for the week but also dropped 10 shots, four of those bogeys coming in the final round.

The good play moved him into the top-50 on the money list and will give him plenty of confidence heading into the rest of the year.

6th place finish this week, all 4 rounds in the 60’s, just gotta get that extra 1% better each week to get the W! #LiveAndLearn

— Oliver Goss (@OllieGossGolf) July 5, 2015

For Stuart Appleby his first event back after undergoing back surgery in March was a success, the 44-year-old shooting 6-under-par for the week for a T36 finish.

Having not played since Pebble Beach in February it was an encouraging return to tournament golf for Appleby whose rounds of 73-66-71-68 were impressive under the circumstances.

His final round moved was good enough to move him 19 places up the leaderboard, the veteran finishing on the same score as rookie Brett Drewitt.

Aron Price, Bryden Macpherson and Bronson La’Casssie were next best at T43 with Ash Hall the last of the Australians to make the cut and finishing T70.

Adam Crawford, Rhein Gibson, James Nitties, Alistair Presnell and Mathew Goggin all missed the weekend’s play.