The experienced pairing of Greg Chalmers and Cameron Percy outshone some of their more fancied younger countrymen with a top-15 finish at the Zurich Classic teams’ event in New Orleans.

The pair combined for an impressive 3-under closing round in the difficult foursomes format to post 16-under for the week and move 14 places up the leaderboard to T10.

Two All Australian teams teed up at TPC Louisiana, Jason Day and young gun Ryan Ruffels the other flying the Australian flag exclusively.

That duo struggled with the alternate shot format both Friday and Sunday with a pair of costly 74’s to eventually finish near the tail of the field.

A total of eight Australasians were in the field including defending champion Cameron Smith who teamed again with Sweden’s Jonas Blixt.

Aaron Baddeley paired with Scott Stallings and Matt Jones with Chad Campbell while New Zealand’s Danny Lee played alongside Swede David Lingmerth.

Smith and Blixt couldn’t find the magic that took them to the title last year and missed the cut after a horror finish Friday.

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Back-to-back double bogeys at their final two holes, the 8^th and 9^th, saw them sign for a 76 that was two too many to qualify for the weekend.

Baddeley and Stallings also missed the 5-under cut with scores of 67-75 while Lee and Lingmerth were one outside the number with 68-72.

Jones and Campbell opened with rounds of 63-70 to be T3 through 36 holes but a lacklustre effort in the Saturday fourballs dropped them down the standings.

A 2-under 70 was not enough to keep pace in a field of this quality and they headed to Sunday T25 and six shots off the pace.

A final round 71 was enough to move ahead of five teams and they eventually finished T19.