East Lothian golfer Kenny Glen will draw on his experience of winning the Scottish Young Pros title last year when he makes his bid to qualify for another prestigious tournament next month.
Auchterarder Golf Club once again hosts the Scottish Region qualifier for the Powerade PGA Assistants' Championship, in association with FootJoy, on May 5 and Glen will be looking to make the final at the first attempt.
He will be among a number of Scotland's most promising players in the field and is looking forward to hopefully booking his place at The London Club in the summer.
"My game's pretty good. I didn't score well in the second round of the Callaway/Audi event at Craigielaw this week but still hit 14 greens in regulation," said the 21-year-old first-year assistant who has been at Royal Musselburgh since he was a 12-year-old junior member.
"Prior to that I played in an assistants' event (Linkslands Series Young Pro's at Dunbar) and finished second.
"Obviously it is still the first couple of weeks of the season and so I'm still a wee bit rusty, and I've never played in this event before or played the course.
"But the experience of winning the Scottish Young Pros helps. Since I won it I have been a lot more confident and I turn up expecting to do well.
"It has definitely made a difference."
Archerfield Links' Lee Harper feels he has something to prove after winning the qualifier last year but failing to do himself justice in the final, finishing joint 20th.
"I didn't do anything great in the final. I played really well but the weather was horrendous and I never made any putts and that is what kept me back," said the 26-year-old.
"Hopefully I can get through stage one this year and go down south with some confidence.
"It is definitely one of my priorities to win this event, with all the things that come with it (a place at the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth and also the Australian PGA Futures Championship)."
Harper, who has been at Archerfield for three and a half years, added: "I'm looking forward to this season in general. It's going very well so far.
"I've played three events and I was 17th in the first Callaway event (at Monifieth) - where I had two bad holes - and then I was beaten in a play-off at Kingsbarns (in the Linkslands Series Young Pros) and I was also joint second at the Northern Open qualifier at Kilmarnock Barassie.
"And now I've got my PGA exams out of the way. I got my teaching results and I was glad I passed that and hopefully the written part went well - because the re-sits are in August! (same time as the Powerade Championship final).
"Auchterarder is quite a short course and so there are lots of short irons into greens - which I feel is one of my strong points.
"I am not one for looking at scores or who else is playing. I just look at the golf course."
The PGA Assistants' Championship, which has a £5,000 first prize, has had some notable winners with former Ryder Cup captain Dai Rees winning in 1935 and 1936, the 'Voice of Golf' Peter Allis claiming the title in '52, Open and US Open champion Tony Jacklin in '65 and Barry Lane in '83.