Jake Higginbottom will be searching for some much needed form when he is one of 12 Australians to tee up in the Asian Tour’s inaugural Bangladesh Open this week.

Higginbottom, who burst onto the scene when
he won the BMW New Zealand Open as an amateur in 2012, has made just one cut in
four starts on the Asian Tour this year and is well down the Order of Merit.

The now 21-year-old has struggled with all
departments of his game in 2015 but with several of the Tour’s higher profile
players electing not to tee up this week he has a good opportunity to get his
year moving in the right direction.

Higginbottom is joined in the field by
Marcus Both, David Gleeson, Unho Park, Matthew Giles, Jake Stirling, Jarrod
John Freeman, Peter Stojanovski, Josh Younger, Paul Spargo and Matthew Stieger.