Geoff Ogilvy says the venue for this year's Australian Masters excites him just as much as the fact that world No.1 Tiger Woods will be in the field.

Promotions for the November tournament at Kingston Heath in Melbourne centre around both Woods, who has won 14 career majors, and Ogilvy, who won the 2006 US Open and is a dual winner of the Accenture Match Play Championship.

But the 32-year-old Victorian, who no longer has to deal with any questions about his inability to win in Australia following his maiden victory on home soil in last year's Australian PGA Championship, can't wait to get back to the Melbourne sandbelt.

"It's pretty exciting, there's a lot to be excited about," Ogilvy said. "Even if you take Tiger Woods out of the equation, we're going to Kingston Heath. (To) the people who want to go and play the tournament it's really cool, one of the best golf courses in the world."

"I would probably go out on a limb and say it's the best golf course I'll play a golf tournament on in 2009, so that's pretty exciting."

Ogilvy also believes that the visit of arguably the greatest player in the game's history, for the first time since the Presidents Cup more than a decade ago, will do wonders for the sport in Australia.

"It's pretty exciting, we haven't seen him in Australia since Presidents Cup in '98, so since then that's 11 years," Ogilvy added. "All the kids who are teenagers now haven't seen him in the flesh and he's probably got 13 majors under his belt since then."

"And getting to play in the same tournament as Tiger is exciting at any time just because he adds so much atmosphere to a tournament but put that in Australia and I'm pretty excited about it, it's pretty cool."

Ogilvy is also confident that compatriot and friend Adam Scott will work his way out of his current form slump soon, Scott having slipped to 40th in the world rankings in a season in which he's made the cut four times in 10 starts and boasts just one top-10 finish.

"It's a very fine line on Tour between being a top-five player in the world and missing a bunch of cuts, it's a lot finer line than it looks," he said. "I think it's a confidence thing and I think he'll (Scott) be back, he's way too talented."

"He had a rough 12 months last year with illness and stuff off the golf course. He's got all that sorted out now, he's just got to get the confidence back and I don't think it will be too long, I think he'll be alright."

As for the performances of the likes of James Nitties, Jason Day and Marc Leishman on the US PGA Tour this year and Michael Sim on the secondary Nationwide Tour, Ogilvy has been impressed.

"It seems every year we get young guys coming and playing well over here and this year's probably the best we've had for a while, they're all good, young players and all worthy of a spot over here," he said.

"I think there's less intimidation factor when they come over and play now."

"I think go back quite a long time when there was only two or three Australians on Tour it maybe seemed like a big burden to get over but now we've got so many of us over here I think they seem to feel comfortable straight away and they play well straight away."

"Australians should be proud of them because it's very impressive."

from pgatour.com.au