John Senden was on the edge of one of the most thrilling finishes in memory at TPC Sawgrass posting his best ever finish at the game’s ‘fifth major’.

Fighting back from a poor start, Senden gathered himself to reproduce the form he showed at last week’s WGC Matchplay and grind his way into the top-10.

With three sub-par rounds at Sawgrass the Queenslander climbed into a share of eighth, easily eclipsing his previous best result at The Players of T22 in 2005.

Senden seems back to his ball striking best in recent weeks, with his quarter-final finish at the WGC Match Play last week seeing him climb into the automatic selections for the Presidents Cup in October and this week’s performance going a long way towards cementing that place.

While Senden was putting together a great week it was the opposite for 2004 champion Adam Scott whose putting is becoming a concern after two poor weeks on the greens.

The former world number one blamed slow greens for his statistics at the WGC Match Play but was equally disappointing this week losing more than a shot to the field in the Strokes Gained Putting category.

Scott’s ball striking is as impressive as ever but with the anchoring ban looming the 34-year-old needs to find a solution to his problems on the greens to contend regularly.

Starting Sunday four off the lead on a packed leader board Scott wasn’t without a chance to win but saved his worst till last with a final round 75 to finish T38.

Marc Leishman, Geoff Ogilvy and Robert Allenby were the other Australians to make the cut, Leishman and Ogilvy both finishing in a share of 24th at 5-under for the week while Allenby was towards the tail of the field in a share of 56th.

Missing the weekend were Steven Bowditch, Aaron Baddeley, Jason Day and Matt Jones.

Day will be particularly disappointed after an inexplicable second round of 81 after opening with a creditable 3-under-par round.

It was the second week in a row Day failed to live up to his own expectations, the poor form surprising in a season that began well for the Queenslander.

Day already has one victory in 2015 and was close again three weeks ago in New Orleans where he finished T4 behind Justin Rose on a Sunday where he had his chances to win.

His confidence since that round seems to have suffered though and with a stretch of important tournaments coming up he will no doubt right the ship soon.