Ten Australians take their place in the first of the four tournament Web.com Finals tournaments this week playing for the ultimate prize of a PGA TOUR card for 2016.

The series, which replaces Q-School as a
pathway to the main TOUR, sees the top 75 money earners from the Web.com season
join finishers 126-200 on the FedEx Cup list to battle for 25 available cards.

Already 25 Web.com players have earned
their place on the TOUR next year, including Rod Pampling, by finishing top-25
on the money list but all will tee up in the finals to try to improve their
ranking and earn more starts when the new season gets underway next month.

Five of the Australians come to the finals
after a year on the Web.com Tour while the remaining five all played the PGA
TOUR in 2015.

Rod Pampling, Rhein Gibson, Steve Allan,
Mathew Goggin and Oliver Goss all played the secondary Tour while Robert
Allenby, Greg Chalmers, Aaron Baddeley, Stuart Appleby and Cameron Percy were
PGA TOUR members.

Appleby, whose season was curtailed by back
surgery in March, is playing on a medical extension after finishing 201^st
in the FedEx Cup.

Of the 10 who tee up in this week’s Hotels
Fitness Championship five played the event last year with Rod Pampling the best
of Steve Allan, Greg Chalmers, Cameron Percy and Mathew Goggin.

Over the course of the next four weeks a
‘mini money list’ will be kept to determine who gets the 25 remaining cards for
the 2016 PGA TOUR.

Exemptions will be awarded on an alternate
basis between the 25 who already have cards and the 25 who perform best in the
four week money list.

The first card, the only full exemption,
goes to the player with the most combined money from both the regular season
and the four event Finals.

Those who finished in the top 25 in the
Web.com regular season keep their earnings from the year so have a head start
on the rest of the field. They are also the only ones who can claim the top
card.

For seven of the 10 Australians teeing up
this week there is no fallback position for 2016 and they need to play well
over the next month to play the PGA TOUR next year.

Robert Allenby has a onetime only career
money list exemption up his sleeve should he not play well over the next four
weeks while Appleby will earn some starts in 2016 courtesy of his medical
extension but both will be keen to avoid using those.

This marks the first time in 12 years Aaron
Baddeley has failed to keep his card in the course of the regular season.

The two time Australian Open winner first
joined the PGA TOUR in 2003 and while he finished 123^rd the
following year to just keep his status has been relatively comfortable each
season since.

With less than $500,000 in earnings this
year, and 13 missed cuts in 25 starts, it has easily been the worst year of his
career and the three time TOUR winner will be as motivated as any player in the
field to get his card back.