Davis and Jason Day are the only two Aussies still in the hunt to go the distance in this year’s FedEx Cup which is in its penultimate week at this week’s BMW Championship at Olympia Fields Country Club.

Davis moved from No.62 to No.45 on the FedEx Cup with a tie for sixth last week at the FedEx St Jude Championship after a tie for seventh at the Wyndham Championship to solidify his spot in the top 70. That only came after earning a share of 10th at the 3M Open just to move inside the top 70.

Remarkably, Davis remains in the hunt to become the first Australian winner of the FedEx Cup but needs a solo sixth at minimum to qualify for the Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta.

“I’ve found myself in this sort of situation quite a few times now through my career,” Davis said on the eve of Round 1.

“Whether it was my first year getting on to the PGA TOUR and losing my card and having to play a great nine holes to finish the Korn Ferry finals event just to get my card back, to playing in a playoff.

“I feel like when it is kind of a do-or-die situation, some of the inhibitor actually is taken off in my brain.

“I’ve got free reign; the only way I’m going to succeed is if I make a really committed swing and not just go for broke but definitely play without fear of making a mistake.

“I started the round just inside the number the last few weeks, but I needed to play a good round and shoot under par to stay there. At no point did I get safe. I still felt like I needed to make birdies, and even when I finished I thought, well, maybe it’s enough but maybe I needed more birdies. It was only after the round that I found out it was enough each time.

“In that sort of headspace, I feel like I’ve played a lot of really good golf to keep my career pressing forward.

“Each time I do it’s another little thing in the back of any mind the next time I’m in that situation that I can play well and do well in that situation.”

Day will start the week No.21 in the FedEx Cup ranking as he seeks to return to the Tour Championship for the first time in five years.

All told there are 46 Aussies teeing it up across eight international tours this week, including eight at the ISPS HANDA World Invitational in Ireland, a mixed gender event sanctioned by the DP World Tour, Ladies European Tour and LPGA Tour.

Connor McKinney has been extended an invitation to join Blake Windred, Ryan Ruffels and Jordan Zunic in the men’s event while Sarah Jane Smith, Karis Davidson, Su Oh and Sarah Kemp will contest the women’s event across Galgorm Castle Golf Club and Castlerock Golf Club.

There is a heavy Australian presence at the Asian Tour’s International Series England event in London and West Australian amateur Jennifer Herbst will tee it up alongside fellow Aussies Robyn Choi, Sarah Yamaki Branch and Jess Whiting at the Wildhorse Ladies Golf Classic on the Epson Tour.

Round 1 tee times AEST

PGA TOUR
BMW Championship
Olympia Fields Country Club (Nth Cse), Olympia Fields, Illinois
1.43am Cam Davis, Cameron Young
2.54am Jason Day, Collin Morikawa

Defending champion: Patrick Cantlay
Past Aussie winners: Jason Day (2015), Marc Leishman (2017)
TV times: Live 12am-8am Friday; Live 12.30am-8am Saturday; Live 10.30pm-8am Saturday on Fox Sports 503; Live 10.30pm-2am on Fox Sports 505; Live 2am-8am Monday on Fox Sports 503 and Kayo.

DP World Tour
ISPS HANDA World Invitational
Galgorm Castle, Co Antrim, Northern Ireland
Galgorm Castle GC
4.41pm                Connor McKinney, Gary Stal, Mateusz Gradecki
4.25pm                JR Galbraith, Blake Windred, Alfredo Garcia-Heredia
4.47pm*              Ryan Ruffels, Jamie Rutherford, David Dixon

Castlerock GC
4.41pm                Ma Chengyao, Jordan Zunic

Defending champion: Ewen Ferguson
Past Aussie winners: Nil
TV times: Live 10pm-3am Thursday, Friday; Live 10.30pm-3.30am Saturday on Fox Sports 505; Live 8pm-1.30am Sunday on Fox Sports 503.

LPGA Tour/Ladies European Tour
ISPS HANDA World Invitational
Galgorm Castle Golf Club, Co Antrim, Northern Ireland
Castlerock GC
4.30pm                Clara Manzalini, Karis Davidson, Agathe Sauzon
5.58pm                Laura Beveridge, Sydnee Michaels, Su Oh
Galgorm GC
6.20pm                Tereza Melecka, Sarah Jane Smith, Jing Yan
9.30pm                Sarah Kemp, Trichat Cheenglab, Alice Hewson

Defending champion: Maja Stark
Past Aussie winners: Nil
TV times: Live 10pm-3am Thursday, Friday; Live 10.30pm-3.30am Saturday on Fox Sports 505; Live 8pm-1.30am Sunday on Fox Sports 503.

Asian Tour
International Series England
Close House (Colt Cse), England, UK
4.20pm*              Hideto Tanihara, Sarit Suwannarut, Matt Jones
4.40pm*              Eugenio Chacarra, Steve Lewton, Scott Hend
4.50pm                Prom Meesawat, Ben Campbell (NZ), Samuel Westwood
4.50pm*              Hudson Swafford, Travis Smyth, Peter Uihlein
5pm                      Jbe Kruger, Tom Power-Horan, Michael Maguire
5.10pm                Andrew Dodt, Trevor Simsby, Chikkarangappa S.
5.50pm                Josh Younger, Seungtaek Lee, Carlos Bustos
5.30pm*              Gunn Charoenkul, Richard T Lee, John Lyras
5.40pm*              Kevin Yuan, Lee Chieh-po, Zhengkai Bai
5.50pm*              Jack Murdoch, Nicolas Paez, Faisal Salhab
9pm                      Chanmin Jung, Taichi Kho, Jediah Morgan
9.10pm                Miguel Tabuena, Andy Ogletree, Wade Ormsby
9.10pm*              MJ Viljoen, Marcus Fraser, Othman Almulla
9.50pm                Pat Perez, Danny Lee (NZ), Sihwan Kim
9.50pm*              Miguel Carballo, Yoseop Seo, Zach Murray
10pm                    Brendan Jones, Jaewoong Eom, Shiv Kapur
10.20pm*            Todd Sinnott, Chang Wei-lun, Kosuke Hamamoto
10.40pm              Jyoti Randhawa, Jack Thompson, Nick Voke (NZ)
10.40pm*            Douglas Klein, Khalin Joshi, David Hague
10.50pm*            Harrison Gilbert-Wong, Shergo Al Kurdi, Karandeep Kochhar
11pm                    Terry Pilkadaris, Suteepat Prateeptienchai, Matthew Cheung

Defending champion: Scott Vincent
Past Aussie winners: Nil
TV times: Live 11pm-3am Thursday; Live 12.12am-3am Saturday; Live 11.47pm-3am Saturday; Live 11.15pm-3am Sunday on Fox Sports 506 and Kayo.

Korn Ferry Tour
Magnit Championship
Metedeconk National Golf Club, Jackson Township, New Jersey
9pm       Kevin Dougherty, Zack Fischer, Dimi Papadatos
9.44pm*              Rhein Gibson, Rafael Campos, Shad Tuten
10.17pm              Jorge Fernández Valdés, Brett Drewitt, Jeff Overton
2.15am*              Adrien Dumont de Chassart, David Skinns, Curtis Luck

Defending champion: Inaugural event
Past Aussie winners: Nil

PGA TOUR Champions
Shaw Charity Classic
Canyon Meadows Golf and Country Club, Calgary, Alberta
Australasians in the field: Steven Alker (NZ), Stuart Appleby, Richard Green, Mark Hensby, David McKenzie

Defending champion: Jerry Kelly
Past Aussie winners: Nil
TV times: 1pm-2pm Saturday; Live 8am-9am Sunday, Monday on Fox Sports 503 and Kayo.

Epson Tour
Wildhorse Ladies Golf Classic
Wildhorse Resort and Casino, Pendleton, Oregon
12.59am*            Robyn Choi, Haylee Harford, Miranda Wang
1.32am*              Jennifer Herbst (a), Sarah Yamaki Branch, Xiaowen Yin
5.44am*              Kendra Dalton, Mariel Galdiano, Amelia Garvey (NZ)
6.06pm                Hira Naveed, Yue Ren, Min A Yoon
6.39am*              Prima Thammaraks, Jess Whitting, Amelia Williamson

Defending champion: Daniela Iacobelli
Past Aussie winners: Nil

LET Access Series
PGA Championship Gothenburg
Kungsbacka Golfklubb, Sweden
4.30pm                Charlotte Liautier, Tia Teiniketo, Kristalle Blum
4.40pm                Kelsey Bennett, Sandra Abrahamson, Cecilie Eckbo Lonberg
5.50pm                Lucie Andre, Dorthea Forbrigd, Hanee Song (NZ)
6.20pm                Teresa Diez Moliner, Wenyung Keh (NZ), Lejan Lewthwaite
6.30pm                Raquel Romero Valverde, Munchin Keh (NZ), Evelina Gulliksson
6.40pm                Nicole Polivchak, Erika De Martini, Stefanie Hall
9.20pm                Emily Penttila, Amy Walsh, Sophia Opitz

Defending champion: Inaugural event
Past Aussie winners: Nil

* Starting from 10th tee