Back-to-back runner-up finishes in his last
two Web.com Tour starts will have Rhein Gibson keen to go one better when he
tees up at this week’s Digital Ally Open in Kansas.

Gibson is a remarkable 42-under-par in his
last eight rounds on the secondary Tour and if he can maintain that sort of
scoring is sure to break through soon.

Gibson earned his PGA TOUR status for 2016
with some excellent play on the Web.com Tour last year but has struggled for
form and appears likely to lose his card at the end of the season.

However, his good play on the Web.com Tour
has him 32^nd on the money list and if he can climb into the top-25
over the next four weeks he will regain his PGA TOUR status for 2017.

The Lismore native is one of nine
Australians in the field this week, the numbers swelled by the inclusion of
both James Nitties and Jarrod Lyle.

Nitties gains a start as a former champion
of the tournament, his lone Web.com Tour title coming at this event in 2011.

Having lost his card last season, Nitties
is playing his first event of 2016 and no doubt will be hoping to catch
lightning in a bottle to help revive his career.

Lyle tees up after failing to Monday
qualify for the Travelers Championship on the PGA TOUR this week.

The Victorian is desperately trying to
maintain some status in the US as he works on rebuilding a career cruelly
interrupted by a second bout of cancer four years ago.

Lyle wrote on his blog this week he is
confident of playing the John Deere Classic and is hopeful of at least earning
the $28,561 required to qualify for the Web.com Tour playoff events in
September.

Gibson, Nitties and Lyle are joined in the
field this week by Oliver Goss, Brett Drewitt, Bryden Macpherson, Mathew
Goggin, Steve Allan and Peter Lonard.

All are in desperate need of a high finish
with Drewitt the only one of the group presently inside the top-50 on the money
list.

With the Finals series lurking, where cards
are decided for the PGA TOUR for 2017, all will want to be inside the top-75 on
the money list to qualify but all are presently outside the top-100.