Oliver Goss continues to show flashes of brilliance but as impressive as his good play is his poor performances are equally inexplicable.

Goss, who celebrated his 22^nd birthday last week,
held a share of the lead late Friday morning at the El Bosque Championship in
Mexico but by the end of the week was T57 after a weekend that included a 9-over-par
81 in the final round.

This was Goss’ seventh event for the year and while he has
missed three cuts along the way his three finishes have been an impressive T12,
T10 and T11.

The super talented West Australian told the PGA TOUR website
after Friday’s second round he is pursuing an aggressive strategy on the ultra
competitive Web.com Tour.

"You’ve got to be quite
aggressive all the time, which is completely different from the main Tour," he
said.
"Everyone talks about being consistent, hitting fairways and hitting greens but
out here it’s almost like a shootout for four rounds."

"You have to learn to play
aggressive and be comfortable being aggressive. I’m slowly getting used to it."

Goss’ ability to go low is a huge asset and as he matures
and learns to weed out some of the costly mistakes there is little doubt he
will join the ranks of the world’s truly elite.

While Goss suffered the biggest fall down the leaderboard he
wasn’t the only Australian to struggle at the weekend in Mexico with veteran
Mathew Goggin also unable to break 80 on Sunday.

Goggin, who won the opening event of the Web.com season,
made a solid start to his week with an opening 68 but struggled thereafter with
rounds of 75-74-82 to finish 67^th.

After Goss’ Sunday capitulation Aron Price assumed the
honours for top Australian at T42 followed by James Nitties (T55), Scott
Gardiner (T59) and Brett Drewitt (68^th).

Seven of the 13 Australians who started the week missed the
cut led by Nick Flanagan who is playing on a medical exemption after thumb
surgery last year.

Also missing the weekend were Adam Crawford, Bryden
Macpherson, Ash Hall, Steve Allan, Rhein Gibson and Alistair Presnell.

Three Australians are presently inside the all important
top-25 on the money list through seven events. Mathew Goggin (8), Steve Allan
(14) and Rhein Gibson (18) are all a good chance to earn PGA TOUR cards at the
end of the season if they can maintain form while Oliver Goss (36) seems likely
to join them on that list sooner than later.