It’s a different venue but Richard Green will be hoping for a similar result when the Spanish Open tees off on the European Tour this week.

Green, the reigning Oates Vic Open champ, lost in a three way playoff last year after producing some of his best, and worst, golf of the season.

A triple bogey seven at the par-4 14th in the final round proved a fatal error for the left hander, the dropped shots eventually seeing him tied with local hero Miguel Angel Jimenez and Belgian Thomas Pieters, Jimenez winning the title in extra holes.

Green described his play in Europe last year as some of the best of his career and at 44 he remains competitive making the cut in all six tournaments he has teed up in this year.

This week marks the first tournament of the season which will see a full complement of Australia’s European Tour members tee up with Andrew Dodt, Wade Ormsby, Marcus Fraser, Scott Hend and Jason Scrivener all taking their places in the field.

Hend comes into the week off another good performance in Mauritius last week where a blistering final round saw him charge into a share of fifth.

The 41-year-old might be a Euro Tour rookie this year but has plenty of experience in the game and while he hasn’t yet got over the line in 2015 he has played well enough to be in the mix late Sunday on three separate occasions.

Hend is a momentum player whose good form tends to come in runs and after last week’s final round it would be no surprise to see him at the pointy end of the tournament again this week.

Wade Ormsby has continued his good form of 2014 in the early part of this season and despite missing the cut at his last outing in China three weeks ago comes to Spain fresh from a break and no doubt ready to play.

Andrew Dodt and Jason Scrivener both earned their cards at last year’s Q-School but have had very different results to date.

Dodt won in Thailand early in the season to secure paying rights for the next two years while Scrivener has had limited starts and is yet to find his feet on the European Tour.

After a T11 result in his debut tournament in South Africa it has been tough going for Scrivener with four missed cuts in his six events since.

Marcus Fraser is the last of the Australians to play this week and after returning from a long layoff with a wrist injury late last year the Victorian has been in solid form.

A T3 at the Indian Open in February has been the highlight of the season so far but with just one missed cut in seven starts Fraser is playing nicely without setting the world on fire.