An opening 66 at the DAP Championship will have given Matt Jones a much needed confidence boost ahead of the season ending Web.com Tour Championship next week.

Jones and Brett Drewitt were the only two of 10 Australasians to play the weekend in Ohio as the Web.com Tour Finals, and the 25 PGA TOUR cards they will determine, draw to a close.

Jones missed the cut in each of the first two events to be well down the standings but his eventual T20 finish this week has pushed him inside the top 50 on the finals money list.

Drewitt dropped eight places on the same money list after a difficult weekend at Canterbury Golf Club.

The 26-year-old began the weekend inside the top-10 in the tournament after opening rounds of 67-68 and was projected inside the top-15 on the money list but a horror back-9 41 on Saturday spoiled his week.

He plummeted down the leaderboard and eventually finished T54 after a 3-over 73 Sunday in what was a frustrating weekend.

More disappointing was falling eight places down the money list to 42nd and he will head to TPC Sawgrass for the season finale with much work to do.

While both Drewitt and Jones will be disappointed not to have capitalised on good starts the remaining eight Australasians in the field have put themselves under extreme pressure ahead of next week’s final event.

New Zealanders Tim Wilkinson and Steve Alker missed the cut by one and two respectively while Cameron Percy, Stuart Appleby, Curtis Luck, Jamie Arnold and Rhein Gibson were well outside the mark.

The difficult Canterbury Golf Club course took its toll on several players during the week, Appleby among them after matching Jones’ opening 66 but slumping to a second round 80.

Rhein Gibson was 4-under for his opening nine holes but posted a 5-over 40 on the way to the clubhouse with two doubles and a bogey and eventually missed the weekend.

Cameron Percy, the only Australasian to start the week inside the top-25 on the Finals money list, made a triple bogey seven on the 18th hole Friday to miss the cut and fall to 26th on the earnings table.

With just one event remaining all the Australasians taking part in the Finals need a high finish next week if they are to graduate to the PGA TOUR with only Percy and Luck inside the top-40.

Drewitt is 41st, Jones T47, Alker 70th, and Tim Wilkinson 76th. Arnold, Gibson and Appleby are all languishing in T90 having not made the cut in any of the three events played.

Scott Hend, who skipped the DAP Championship, is 40th heading to TPC Sawgrass though it is unknown yet if he will tee up there.