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Jason Day plays the 17th in Sydney.

Day, Herbert to reignite David and Goliath Open duel

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.

Money man: Lucas Herbert.

Lucas Herbert closing in on career payday

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?

Contender: Jason Day.

Day, young guns set for Open shootout

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.

Spieth bullish of Open comeback as putter goes cold

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.

Jason Day

Day stalks Open leaders after first round

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.

Remote: Anthony Quayle.

Open contender's extraordinary Tin Cup Top End upbringing

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.