Marcus Fraser faded on the final day at St Andrews but compatriot Lucas Herbert continues to thrive on the European Tour, all but booking a start in the season-ending tour championship.
Victorian Fraser began the last day of the Dunhill Links Championship with a chance of a groundbreaking win, but he was swept away by winner Lucas Bjerregaard, of Denmark, in cold and blustery conditions at the home of golf.
Fraser closed with a 77 to finish 10th, a result that nevertheless shows that he is emerging from a couple of years of injury-riddled difficulty.
But it was the 22-year-old Herbert, of Bendigo, who came out of the pack again, remarkably logging his seventh top-10 finish of the season while playing on limited affiliate status.
Herbert carded a final-round 70 to finish T7 at nine under par, banking another 107,000 Euros.
The former top amateur began 2018 with only Australasian tour status; he is now confirmed as a full European Tour card-holder for next season and, at No.50 on the Race to Dubai rankings, he is inside the top 60 players who will contest the lucrative Dubai World Championship, worth $US8 million, in November.
Herbert has won 650,000 Euros this season in 17 tournaments.
Two other Aussies also banked important cheques with in-form Jason Scrivener, of Western Australia, carding a 69 to finish at -6 and T24, while Geelong's Deyen Lawson took advantage of his first full-blown European Tour start with a closing 70 to reach -5 and T28.
Emerging Queenslander Jake McLeod, while not chuffed with his closing 74, also had a lucrative week with a T48 finish earning him almost 18,000 Euros.