Steve Allan remains in good position to return to the 2016 PGA TOUR holding down 19th spot on the Web.com Finals Series money list with two events to go.
Steve Allan remains in good position to return to the 2016 PGA TOUR holding down 19th spot on the Web.com Finals Series money list with two events to go.
The top-25 on the four tournament ‘mini
money list’ not otherwise exempt to the Tour will get status for the 2016
season at the end of the Web.com Tour Championship in two weeks’ time.
Allan finished T16 at the Small Business
Connection Championship to go with a T22 finish at last week’s Hotel Fitness
tournament and be in the running for one of the 25 cards on offer.
The top-25 earners at the end of the
regular season are already guaranteed playing rights but tee up in the Final
Series to try to improve their exemption category.
There are 10 Australians playing the
Series, five from the top-75 on the Web.com money list plus five who finished
126-200 on the PGA TOUR’s FedEx Cup standings.
Allan was the only one of nine Australians in the field who finished in the
top-20, Rhein Gibson stumbling in the final round to fall from a top-5 placing
to T21.
Aaron Baddeley, Cameron Percy, Mathew
Goggin, Greg Chalmers and Oliver Goss also played the weekend while Stuart
Appleby and Rod Pampling both missed the cut.
Robert Allenby didn’t play as he continues
to recover from a back injury.
It was a disappointing Sunday for Mathew
Goggin who was inside the top-10 through 54 holes but struggled to a 5-over-par
77 on Sunday including a double bogey on his final hole.
Goggin won the first event of the 2015
season in Panama but inexplicably went on to miss 13 cuts in his next 21 events
to fall outside the top-25 money winners.
Greg Chalmers and Oliver Goss also had
costly poor rounds at the weekend, Chalmers slipping to T66 after a Sunday 76
while Goss was last in the field with weekend scores of 79-80.
With two tournaments done and two to go the
money list positions for the Australians are:
Steve Allan (19), Rhein Gibson (T31),
Oliver Goss (40), Aaron Baddeley and Cameron Percy (T52), Mathew Goggin (65),
Greg Chalmers (82) and Stuart Appleby (T86).
Rod Pampling finished 19th at
the end of the regular season so is already guaranteed a PGA TOUR card next
year.