• Adam Pengilly

Cameron Davis may be one of the most improbable Australian Open winners in its 102-year history.

• Adam Pengilly

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.

• Adam Pengilly

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.

• Adam Pengilly

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.

• Adam Pengilly

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?

• Adam Pengilly

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.

• Adam Pengilly

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.

• Adam Pengilly

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.

• Adam Pengilly

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.

• Adam Pengilly

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.

• Adam Pengilly

YouTube is a golfer's rite of passage these days. But the showreel of Cameron Davis, who stormed to a surprise Australian Open lead, is pretty cool though.

• Scott Spits

Like all sports, the challenge for golf is to keep fans engaged, regardless of whether they're attracted to the little white ball as a recreational pursuit, or take more than a passing interest in the professional game.

• Adam Pengilly

World golf's relentless touring treadmill has convinced Jordan Spieth to undertake a battery of tests to figure out a way to put on weight as his main Australian Open rival Jason Day confessed a fascination with upper body strength stifled his swing.

• Adam Pengilly

A repentant Jason Day insisted he won't pass up the chance to represent Australia at the next Olympic Games after heading a spate of superstar withdrawals from golf's re-inclusion at Rio last year.

• Chris Dutton

The former Gold Creek teaching professional hopes to find his best form at Australia's biggest tournament.

• Adam Pengilly

Damien Jordan's voice drops to slightly above a whisper, talking about a professional golfer's demons. He speaks about his struggles, but doesn't want to speak about his struggles.

• Adam Pengilly

A healthy Tiger Woods will be included on a hitlist of world golf's biggest names being drawn up by Australian Open organisers to spearhead the 2018 event should Jordan Spieth opt against returning for a fifth straight year.

• Caden Helmers

Karen Lunn says Canberra supports women's sport like no other.

• Adam Pengilly

A promised return to world No.1 won't be enough to satisfy Jason Day.