Glasgow golf pro Graham Fox is hoping it will be a case of no practice makes perfect as he prepares for his biggest event of the season in this week’s BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth.

The 38-year-old, who is attached to the Clydeway Golf Centre in Uddingston, is one of three Tartan Tour campaigners competing among the big names in the European Tour’s flagship event.

Fox is currently contesting the domestic circuit’s P&H Championship at the Renaissance club in East Lothian and will not travel down south until that tournament concludes tonight.

The former Scottish PGA champion will then tee-up at Wentworth tomorrow but the Scot made light of the fact that he’ll be turning up with limited preparation.

Fox, who was part of the GB&I side which won the PGA Cup in the USA last September, said: “I'm on the last plane down from Glasgow on Wednesday. It’s a difficult one. There are not a huge amount of order of merit events on the Tartan Tour so if you miss one you’re kind of snookered for getting into the PGA Play-offs at the end of the season. And of you don’t get in those then you don’t have another chance of getting back to Wentworth the following year so I really had to play at the Renaissance.

“It’s a sticky situation. My Tartan Tour colleague Gareth Wright had pre-paid his accommodation down there before our own schedule came out so he just had to go down and miss our tournament because he couldn’t lose that money. Ascot is not cheap.

“It’s not an ideal build up for me but I know the course. Sometimes it works in your favour. You just get there, you don’t get involved in the general circus and hitting among the big boys on the range. You just appear under the radar and do your thing.”

With a whopping prize pot of almost £4 million, Fox is well aware that a good week in the Surrey stockbroker belt can bring huge financial rewards.

He added: “For us PGA pros it’s a potentially life changing week really. If you can make the cut, then you have a chance to make a really good cheque. But you try not to think about that too much.

“In a way, getting there late and just getting started takes a bit of the pressure off. There’s a huge carrot being dangled in front of you in terms of the money that’s on offer but when you just turn up and play, you’re expectations are not as high and you don’t mull over what’s at stake.”

Fox is one of a host of Scots competing over the West Course and will be joined by Glasgow European Tour regulars Marc Warren and Scott Jamieson.

Warren was beaten in a play-off for the title in the 2013 BMW PGA Championship while Jamieson heads to Wentworth looking to end a run of four successive missed cuts on the main circuit.

Russell Knox, the leading Scot on the world rankings at No 23, and former Open champ Paul Lawrie are also in the tartan army.