David McKenzie’s best result in more than six months wasn’t quite enough as the Victorian failed to qualify for the Champions Tour’s season-ending Charles Schwab Cup Championship.

McKenzie put together a bogey-free final round of 2-under 70 at Sherwood Country Club to finish the Invesco QQQ Championship in a tie for third but still outside the top 36 players in the season-long points race who advance to the final event of the year in two weeks’ time.

At the start of the week McKenzie was 54th in the Charles Schwab Cup rankings and in need of a finish near the very top of the leaderboard.

He very nearly delivered but his tie for third – three shots behind victor Scott Parel – only elevated him 12 spots to 42nd in the standings, bringing to an end his first full season on the Champions Tour.

It was a difficult week for the Australians on the PGA Tour with just two players making the cut at the Sanderson Farms Championship at the Country Club of Jackson won in convincing fashion by Cameron Champ in just his ninth start on the PGA Tour.

Curtis Luck’s tie for 50th was the best finish of the Aussies with Stuart Appleby (T68) and Kiwi Tim Wilkinson the others to qualify for the weekend.