With the dreaded qualifying school a thing of the past, the last chance for 10 Australian golfers to get to next season's US PGA Tour begins this week in the inaugural web.com Tour finals series.
The secondary tour's four-tournament playoffs get underway at Sycamore Hills Golf Club in Fort Wayne, Indiana on Thursday.
The series is for players who finished 126th-200th on the US PGA Tour points list and those in the top 75 of the secondary web.com tour money list.
Scott Gardiner, Alistair Presnell, Nathan Green, Rod Pampling, Nick O'Hern and Cameron Percy will be battling to remain on the PGA Tour after struggling there this season while Mat Goggin, Adam Crawford, Ashley Hall and Aron Price are looking to make the step up from the web.com Tour.
They'll be fighting it out for 25 remaining spots on the big stage next season.
The top 25 on the secondary tour, including Australia's last-start winner Bronson La'Cassie, are already secure on the PGA Tour next year but continue to play as they, with the eventual new 25, will be ranked in priority based on these events.
Every player starts the series from zero, whether like Green, who was No.199 on the PGA Tour with a best finish of tied 31st, or like Hall, who was No.27 on the web.com list after two runner-up finishes, both playoff losses.
Goggin, a mainstay inside the web.com top 25 all season and even a contender at the US Open this year, slipped to 28th after missing the cut in the final four events.
Despite missing an automatic return to the main tour by just $US3,063, the Tasmanian says the next month was about opportunity not regret.
"Obviously it was a pretty miserable end to the year but this is a better opportunity than the old six rounds at Q-School so it's the best of bad situation really," Goggin said.
"Q-School was so much later in the year also but this is straight into it and with four four-round tournaments you can really play yourself into form.
"If you got off to a poor start at Q-School it became too difficult very fast."
Goggin would have liked to be come in with better form but said the fact everyone now started from scratch reenergised his thinking.
"With a reset the pressure is kind of off and you get over the disappointment pretty quickly," he said.
"You're more excited and aware to go and get it and not protect anything like I may have been. You can come with a fresh attitude."
After Indiana the players travel to River Run Country Club in Davidson, North Carolina for the Chiquita Classic (Sep 5-8) and then the Nationwide Children's Hospital Championship in Columbus, Ohio from September 12-15.
