All eyes were on Augusta National this week for The Masters but often not seen is the hard work the players put in ahead of tournaments.

Enter some of Australia’s brightest golfing minds to mentor and guide the world’s best players on the world’s biggest stage.

Jason Day and Colin Swatton have been a team since the former World Number 1 was 12-years-old, the relationship between the pair is now nudging an incredible two decades long. Both Queenslanders clearly share a special bond on and off the course, Day spoke on their relationship after his 2015 PGA Championship win

"He’s taken me from a kid that was getting in fights at home and getting drunk at 12, and not heading in the right direction to a major champion,” Day said.

“And there’s not many coaches that can say that in many sports."

Swatton was recently recognised for his outstanding 2016 season with Day, claiming the Queensland PGA Coach of the Year Award recently when he passed on a message to those looking to start a coaching career in golf.

“To those graduating PGA Trainees tonight looking for a coaching path, I would like to offer this advice – follow your heart, trust yourself, trust your instincts and always give your best. And in the words of the late, great Arnold Palmer – golf is deceptively simple, yet endlessly complicated,” Swatton said.

Another PGA Professional responsible for introducing golf to a future World Number 1 and Australia’s first Masters Champion is Phil Scott, the man who put a club in his son Adam’s hands who started playing seriously at age 11.

Phil went on to fashion Adam’s prodigious swing and the father-son pairing were together when Adam announced himself with two junior titles in Australia and a world junior event in Scotland, the proud dad then took a step back and now watches from outside the ropes.

The most in form Australian heading in to The Masters was Marc Leishman who won the Arnold Palmer Invitational last month. He’s guided by Yarra Bend Golf Club PGA Professional Denis McDade. Recognised as one of the world’s leading coaches; McDade’s client list includes Stuart Appleby, Robert Allenby, Geoff Ogilvy, Jarrod Lyle, Marcus Fraser and rising star of the game Ryan Ruffels.

Leishman and McDade’s partnership began at the Victorian Institute of Sport, McDade says; “Marc had players he looked up to – Greg Norman and Ernie Els, but we never tried to copy a swing. We continually tried to develop a better version of Marc Leishman.

One of the more senior players at Augusta this week is Rod Pampling who returned to The Masters after a 10 year hiatus; he won his way to the first Major of the year by winning the Shriners Hospital for Children Open in 2016 thanks to long-time coach and PGA Professional Gary Edwin.

Edwin, named Australian PGA Teacher of the Year in 2006, has guided golfers including the likes of Peter Senior, Ian Baker Finch and Peter Lonard since 1961.

The World Number 1 ranked amateur Curtis Luck was in the midst of the biggest week of his career, he’s been helped along the way by PGA Professional Craig Bishop who has been with the young star for the last six years.

Bishop and Luck make a perfect pair, both have taken the immense hype around the 20-year-old’s prospective career in their stride and haven’t let it affect their laid back approach to the game.

“Anyone who knows me knows I am the last guy to get the hoopla. I have to be careful. I have my views. All my students, they all feel like my own kids,” Bishop has said in the past

“Your best interest is in their wellbeing. Some of the requests he has had are unreasonable but he handles them better than I do. He has always been like that.

“He is unflappable. He has good perspective, I think that’s the main thing that stands out. He has always had it. As he is getting older he is getting better at it.”

Outside of the five Australians competing at The Masters there’s another Aussie to cheer for who was driving Jordan Speith’s campaign for a second Green Jacket, Australian Cameron McCormick linked up with a 12-year-old Speith in Dallas and together they’ve forged one of the great careers of modern golf.