Two late birdies may have been enough to secure Curtis Luck a 2019 US PGA Tour card but Aaron Baddeley will have to wait until after the Web.com Tour Championship to learn his fate.

The top 25 finishers from the culmination of the four-event Web.com Tour Finals Series earn a ticket to the big time next year with Aussies Cameron Davis and Matt Jones already safely ensconced in the top 25.

The Albertsons Boise Open in Idaho threw a group of Aussie contenders into the frame but Sunday was not kind to a number of players, Brett Drewitt falling from inside the top 10 through 54 holes to a tie for 43rd with a final round of 3-over 74, bogeys at 17 and 18 meaning he improved just two spots from 66th in the Web.com Finals Series standings to 64th.

Starting the week in 12th position, Luck was facing the prospect of needing a big finish at the Tour Championship to earn full status on the PGA Tour but timely birdies at 16 and 17 may prove to be enough.

Projected to be 19th in the Finals Series standings midway through his round, Luck reached the par-5 16th in two and two-putted for birdie and then backed that up with a second at the par-3 17th to rescue his round.

After three events of the Finals Series Luck has won $41,587, which would have been enough to earn one of the 25 PGA Tour cards up for grabs last year.

Early predictions were that Luck’s standing of 16th in the rankings should hold up even after the Tour Championship but there’s no doubt the West Australian will want to finish strongly to take any extraordinary circumstances out of the equation.

The task is not quite so simple for Baddeley who moved up three places to be 20th heading into the Tour Championship.

Tied for 11th entering the final round of the Boise Open, Baddeley had three birdies in his opening five holes but was unable to maintain such a heady pace, bogeys at four, nine and 17 resulting in a 1-under 70 and tie for 17th.

Although he made a significant move up the leaderboard with a final round of 67 Cameron Percy actually slipped four places to be 44th heading into the Tour Championship while Rhein Gibson (56th), John Senden (77th) and Stuart Appleby (87th) would essentially need to win the season finale to earn full status for 2019.

Brett Coletta’s quest for a Web.com Tour card via the Mackenzie Tour in Canada has fallen short despite another strong showing in the Freedom 55 Financial Championship.

Tied for fifth last start, Coletta has now had eight consecutive rounds in the 60s, shooting 68-66-67-67 to finish the week tied for 12th and the year-end moneylist in 22nd position, he will, however, receive automatic exemption to Second Stage of Web.com Tour Qualifying School.

The only other Australian in the field, Ruben Sondjaja, was tied for 52nd.