It’s been a tough start to the 2015 Web.com Tour season for Bryden Macpherson but the 25-year-old has quietly started to turn things around in recent weeks and could be one to watch at this week’s Rust-Oleum Championship in Ohio.
It’s been a tough start to the 2015 Web.com Tour season for Bryden Macpherson but the 25-year-old has quietly started to turn things around in recent weeks and could be one to watch at this week’s Rust-Oleum Championship in Ohio.
Macpherson has broken 70 just five times in
2015 but all five of those scores have come in his last nine rounds including
three sub-70 scores at last week’s event in Dallas.
The consistent run is an encouraging sign
for the 2011 Amateur Champion who has immense talent but has struggled to find
his feet in the Professional game over the past three years.
Macpherson earned his Web.com Tour card the
hard way at last year’s Qualifying School and a big finish to the season after
a poor start would avoid the stress of having to endure that pressure again.
There are 13 Australians in this week’s
field for a tournament which is being played for just the second time on the
Web.com Tour.
Mathew Goggin was the best of the
Australians at last year’s staging courtesy of a scorching second round of 62.
The Tasmanian, who won the first event of
the 2015 season, could do with a repeat performance this year having missed his
last four cuts in a run stretching back to March.
Adam Crawford was the only other Australian
to make the cut in 2014 and comes into the week off his best performance of the
year in Dallas, a T20 that included a second round 64.
Crawford has struggled for much of 2015
making the cut in less than half his tournaments but, like Macpherson, could
turn things around in the second half of the season.
Also playing this week are Steve Allan,
Brett Drewitt, Nick Flanagan, Rhein Gibson, Oliver Goss, Ash Hall, Bronson
La’Cassie, James Nitties, Alistair Presnell and Aron Price