Jason Day will make just his third career start at this week’s Wells Fargo tournament where he has a score to settle at the venue that hosted last year’s PGA Championship.

The 2015 PGA champion made an infamous quadruple bogey at Quail Hollow’s 18th hole in the third round of 2017’s final major to effectively shoot himself out of the tournament.

A series of bad decisions and poor shots saw Day drop from four behind then leader Kevin Kisner to eight back ahead of the final round on his way to an eventual T9 finish.

Coincidentally, T9 is also Day’s best finish at the regular Tour event staged at Quail Hollow each year, the Wells Fargo, that result coming in his second and last appearance in 2012.

That result, coupled with his otherwise good play at last year’s PGA, suggest he will be one to watch this week after an adventurous outing at the teams event in Louisiana.

Paired with young gun Ryan Ruffels, Day did most of the heavy lifting in the two rounds of four-ball in New Orleans making 10 birdies and an eagle for those 36 holes.

Quail Hollow is a more demanding test than TPC Louisiana but that will only be a positive as Day is a player whose best results tend to come on the most difficult courses.

There are eight Australasians teeing up this week with Adam Scott, Aaron Baddeley, Greg Chalmers, Rod Pampling, Geoff Ogilvy,  Ryan Ruffels and New Zealand’s Danny Lee joining Day.

Lee has the best record of the group with no missed cuts in five starts (he was disqualified in 2012) and a best of T9 when he last played in 2016.

Lee has been at less than his best most of this season though prior to missing last week’s cut alongside his teammate at the Zurich Classic David Lingmerth, he had been trending in a more positive direction.

Returning to a difficult course where he has had success in the past might be just the tonic to kickstart a return to form, Lee posting just one top-10 this season and that coming in October last year.

Adam Scott continues his search for form when he returns to competition for the first time since missing the cut at the Texas Open two weeks ago, his history at Quail Hollow a chequered one.

He finished third here in his second appearance in 2006 but has only one other top-10 since and will need to improve on the form he’s shown so far this season if he is to be a factor.

Of the rest Ryan Ruffles will be hoping to make the most of a sponsor’s exemption into the field after playing less than his best in the team environment last week.

It’s been a mixed bag of form for the 20-year-old who continues to ply his trade on the PGA TOUR’s Latin America circuit, his best result coming two weeks ago with a T11 in Argentina.

He held the lead after a second round 63 but a third round 72, followed by a washout in the final round, proved costly.

Ruffels is clearly capable of playing at the highest level and while he is yet to put together four good rounds in a PGA TOUR event in his limited opportunities there is no reason it can’t happen this week.