Jason Day and Marc Leishman will back up from last week’s US Masters spearheading a nine strong Australian assault on this week’s RBC Heritage tournament.

A gutsy performance saw Day finish T10 at Augusta National despite never finding his A Game while Leishman will be looking to hit back after the disappointment of missing the cut in the year’s first major.

They will be joined at the traditional post Masters event by seven other Australians including rookie Professional Ryan Ruffels, Robert Allenby, Matt Jones, Geoff Ogilvy, Stuart Appleby, Aaron Baddeley and John Senden.

As a former winner of the event in 2006 Baddeley has the best track record at the tricky Hilton Head layout and while his recent results haven’t been as good here the three time PGA TOUR winner has been in rejuvenated form this year.

A missed cut at the Shell Houston Open the week before the Masters was disappointing but likely a blip in a season which has already produced three top-10’s.

Baddeley’s quest to get back to the PGA TOUR after suffering the indignity of losing his card at the end of last year is well on track and with a good record at this event he will likely take another step forward this week.

The rest in this week’s field have generally found the going tougher although Leishman did post a top-10 here in 2013.

Look for the big Victorian to play well this week after being visibly upset at missing the cut at Augusta National last week.

Shows of emotion are rare from Leishman but his disappointment was clear as he made a gut wrenching bogey at the final hole Friday at The Masters to miss the cut.

The show of fire in the belly will likely hold him in good stead this week in a season where he is yet to produce his best golf.

For Ruffels the week presents another opportunity to work towards his dream of earning a PGA TOUR card without needing to spend a year on the secondary Web.com Tour.

The super talented teen has played three events to date with just one missed cut, at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, though is yet to post a finish better than T43.

At both Torrey Pines and Pebble Beach he was within touching distance of much higher finishes and while there is no question he has the game to compete at the highest level there is much to learn along the way.

Small mistakes have led to big numbers on the scorecard in each of his three events to date but Ruffels has proved himself a quick study in the past and every tournament he plays brings him a step closer to realising his potential.

For the remaining Australians Hilton Head hasn’t historically proved a happy hunting ground, Geoff Ogilvy’s T3 in 2003 the standout result among them.

Many have been infrequent visitors to the tournament with the Pete Dye designed course demanding a very different style of play to many of the PGA TOUR courses.

Matt Jones will play for just the fourth time with a previous best finish of T30 in 2013 while John Senden hasn’t teed up here since 2009.

With several of the Australians desperately needing FedEx Cup points there is no shortage of motivation and it wouldn’t surprise if one or two improved on previous poor form here this week.