Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen is hoping to get an energy boost from playing on home soil as he brings a long run of golf to a conclusion at the Danish Golf Championship.
The Crown Australian Open champion is playing the event for the third time, having never missed the cut and improved his result year-on-year, finishing 16th in 2025.
He arrives at new venue Great Northern as one of the favourites now he is a DP World Tour winner and dual member with the PGA TOUR but he is also playing a seventh week in a row internationally, having teed it up in Germany, Scotland, England and the United States over the last six weeks.
Nevertheless, he is still itching to get going in his mission to become just the second home winner of this event.
"I'm super excited," he said. "I've played a lot of golf lately but always looking forward to this week and what a great week it looks to be. The forecast is great and hopefully we'll get a lot of people out here.
"The last couple of weeks I've been starting to feel that strain getting a toll on me so this is going to be the last event of that set in a row and then I'll be horizontal next week."
Since his victory in just the second week of the DP World Tour season back in December, he has played largely in the United States and was 99th on the FedExCup Rankings after last week to miss out of the Playoffs.
He has shown good consistency, making 13 of 18 cuts in the US, but has failed to quite breakthrough in what by his own admission has been an "almost" season on the PGA TOUR.
"It's been a bit of a difficult season, I've had some good results in there but I feel like it's been an almost kind of season," he said.
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"I've had a lot of weeks where I felt like the game has been in pretty good shape but just with subtle things slightly off so I'm looking forward to this week and a break and then finishing the year strong."
A top ten last month at The Open Championship represents not only his best result in recent weeks but also his best result in a Major in the same season he has also made his debut in the Masters Tournament.
This year has also seen him break into the top 50 on the Official World Golf Ranking, so the 27 year-old is now hoping to kick on again and finish the 2026 season as strongly as he started it.
"It was a massive boost of confidence and nice to put in a good finish," he said of The Open. "With it being a Major it was pretty good points as well for the Rankings both here and across the pond.
"It was a nice result that put me in a decent position going into the fall and after this break hopefully I can finish the fall off strong."
