Ash Hall finished in a play-off at the Web.com Tour’s 2013 United Leasing Championship and will be looking for a return to that form when the 2015 tournament tees off this week.
Ash Hall finished in a play-off at the Web.com Tour’s 2013 United Leasing Championship and will be looking for a return to that form when the 2015 tournament tees off this week.
Hall, a steady campaigner on the secondary Tour in recent years, has had a slow start to his 2015 season with only two cuts made in seven starts and the last four consecutive weekends off.
The 32-year-old Victorian has been tantalisingly close to earning his PGA TOUR card in recent years, his 27th place finish on the 2013 money list a painful reminder of how fickle the game can be.
2014 saw a drop in form after that close call and at 97th on the money list so far this year there is plenty of incentive for the 2009 Victorian Open champion to get his game into shape.
Hall is one of 12 Australians teeing up this week joined by Aron Price, Adam Crawford, James Nitties, Oliver Goss, Nick Flanagan, Brett Drewitt, Steve Allan, Mathew Goggin, Rhein Gibson, Bryden Macpherson and Scott Gardiner.
Goggin, Allan and Gibson are all inside the top 25 on the money list after seven events of the 24 tournament season but rookies Oliver Goss and Brett Drewitt have also impressed.
Goss sits in 36th position despite some erratic play while Drewitt, who earned his spot courtesy of an excellent year on the PGA TOUR China in 2014, is in 45th.
Drewitt has been a model of consistency in his debut US season missing just one cut in his seven starts and posting a best finish of T5 at the Chile Classic last month.
Goss has been less consistent but on the weeks where he has made the cut he has finished inside the top 15 on three of four occasions.
Of the rest of the Australians Bryden Macpherson has struggled to find his feet in his first year in America while veteran Rod Pampling, again splitting his time between the PGA and Web,com Tours, is well down the money list with almost a third of the season gone.
Also needing to lift are Aron price (73 on money list), James Nitties (92), Ash Hall (97), Adam Crawford (105) and Bronson La’Cassie (116) while Alistair Presnell and Nick Flanagan are yet to make a cut in seven and four starts respectively.