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Australian golfer Brett Coletta has finished runner-up in the TPC Colorado Championship on the Korn Ferry Tour in the US.

Young Australian golfer Brett Coletta has endured a nerve-wracking, near-miss on the US secondary tour, finishing one stroke behind Argentina's Nelson Ledesma.

With a US PGA Tour card in his sights, Coletta started the final round of the TPC Colorado Championship tied for the lead with Ledesma and overcame a rough start to be level again at the 18th tee after a birdie on the 17th.

But Ledesma (70) triumphed at 15 under when he sunk a 20-foot birdie putt on the difficult final hole on the Heron Lakes course as his Aussie final group partner could only manage par for a 71.

"When the ball was about six feet away from the hole, I knew it was going in. I knew the tournament was mine," said 28-year-old Ledesma.

He wrapped up a US PGA Tour card for next season after securing his second win on the Korn Ferry Tour, formerly the web.com Tour, to move to fourth on the standings.

The top 25 at the end of the season get PGA Tour cards.

Coletta, 23, is much better placed to join Ledesma on the main tour after ending a run of six straight missed cuts and jumping from 66th to 25th on the standings.

The Victorian has won a professional tournament, but that was as an amateur at the Queensland Open in 2016 and he was also runner-up in the New South Wales Open that season.

As an amateur he was runner-up in the Asia Pacific Championship in the same year.