North Harbour's Michael Hendry and Manawatu's Tim Wilkinson will represent New Zealand at next month's World Cup of Golf in Melbourne.
The tournament field is made up of 60 players who'll play four rounds of stroke play, with no cut, for $8.5 million in prizemoney with another $1.2 million on offer for the team's event.
The pair earnt their place through their position on the Official World Golf Rankings as at September 23rd.
Hendry is the New Zealand number one and sits at 200 on the world rankings while Wilkinson's ranking at the time was just one higher than former US Amateur champion Danny Lee.
Following his top ten finish on the Web.com tour Lee is now 297 on the world rankings, 21 places higher than Wilkinson.
The chief executive of the PGA of New Zealand, Duncan Simpson, says it was simply bad luck timing wise for Lee that he missed out.
New Zealand has finished runner-up at the tournament twice.
Sir Bob Charles and Walter Godfrey in 1967 in Mexico and David Smail and Michael Campbell in Japan in 2001.
