Ranked 1494 in the world, Davis comes from clouds to win Open
Cameron Davis may be one of the most improbable Australian Open winners in its 102-year history.
Adam Pengilly is a Sports reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald.
Cameron Davis may be one of the most improbable Australian Open winners in its 102-year history.
The lexicon of a modern day athlete when asked to explain the unexplainable is best summed up in five words: "It is what it is". Jason Day went to it straight away.
Jason Day stared, Lucas Herbert didn't blink. And they'll do it all again as Australia's best golfer couldn't shake off a a self confessed cash-strapped second-year professional after an absorbing third round at the Australian Open.
Swede Jonas Blixt may win his first Australian Open on Sunday after being pestered into travelling Down Under by good friend Cameron Smith, but he wants to set the record straight: the Australian is forever in his debt.
Lucas Herbert won $40,000 last week, stood on the range on Friday morning chest puffed, shoulders arched back and spied a bloke who has cleared $40 million in his career and thought: what's all the fuss?
Jason Day will wage a weekend battle with Australia's Generation Next big hitters after storming to within one shot of the lead at the mid-way point of the Australian Open.
Jordan Spieth was talking to himself, talking to his caddie, talking to the gallery, talking to no one in particular. And when you thought he'd just about had enough of muttering and stuttering his way through a middling Australian Open day, you thought wrong.
Jordan Spieth's Australian Open defence is hanging by a thread after a stone cold putter stalled the American's anticipated push up the leaderboard in the second round at The Australian Golf Club.
Former world No.1 Jason Day went on a birdie blitz as Jordan Spieth's wobbly Stonehaven Cup defence threatened to be blown off course by temperamental afternoon winds in the first round of the Australian Open.
Anthony Quayle is the other golfing export from Queensland's Hills College, alongside Jason Day. But when you can't leave your home town for seven years because of its remoteness, his story is nothing like that of the former world No.1.
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