11 Australians will take aim at full
Web.com Tour status for 2017 as 150 golfers tee up at the final stage of the
Qualifying School this week.

All players who make the final stage are
assured some status for the Tour next year but those in the top-45 will reap
the biggest rewards.

Only the winner receives a fully exempt
card but a top-45 result will guarantee a healthy number of starts in the 2017
season and a chance to play your way to the PGA TOUR.

Web.com Tour veteran Steve Allan leads the
charge at the Orange County National Crooked Cat and Panther Lakes courses
where each player will play two rounds over the four days.

Also teeing up this week are Jamie Arnold,
Rohan Blizard, Nick Cullen, Nick Flanagan, Oliver Goss, Mark Hensby, Max
McCardle, Aron Price, Damon Stephenson and Jordan Zunic.

Flanagan, Price and Goss are all former
full card holding members of the Web.com Tour while Mark Hensby was a PGA TOUR
member for several years in the 2000’s.

A car accident in 2006 curtailed a
promising career for the Tamworth product and for the past several years he has
been trying to work his way back to the TOUR.

Flanagan, a former US Amateur champion, has
been plagued with injury issues in recent years including a surgery on a
troublesome thumb which saw him out of the game for several months.

He played just one event in 2016 though as
a four-time winner on the secondary Tour has the game to compete if he can make
his way back.

Rohan Blizard and Max McCardle both played
the bulk of their golf on the PGA Tour China this season, Blizard winning one
event and McCardle posting four top-10s in nine starts.

After some promising play on Europe’s
secondary Challenge Tour in 2016, Nick Cullen will take some confidence into
this week’s tournament as he tries to fulfill his ambition to play in the US
full time.

Cullen is married to an American and lives
in Georgia making the US the obvious Tour to set his sights on.

Oliver Goss will also be in a positive mood
after surviving the second stage of Q-School following a difficult year on the
Web.com Tour.

The former US Amateur finalist has
struggled to find his feet at the professional level though undoubtedly has the
game to play in the big leagues.

Goss has been nominated by the Web.com
Tour’s own analyst, Adam Stanley, as one of ’10 to watch’ this week.