GLASGOW golfer Chris Doak today insisted that he won't be pressing the panic button as he seeks an upturn in his European Tour fortunes at this week's BMW PGA Championship.

The 37-year-old has played 11 events on the main circuit this season but has made just two cuts and languishes down in 216th place on the order of merit.

Doak is already facing a fight to secure his Tour card for next season but the former Scottish PGA champ, who safeguarded his playing rights last year with a fifth-place finish in the Dunhill Links Championship as the campaign drew to a nervous finale, is remaining calm.

Doak claimed a tie for 11th in the 2014 BMW PGA Championship which earned him over £50,000 and the Scot is hoping he can strike it rich again in the Surrey stockbroker belt and kick start his stuttering season.

Having been as far afield as South Africa, the Middle East and China in 2015, Doak is relishing the European Tour's first visit to the UK and with events in Ireland and Scotland coming up, the former Tartan Tour No.1 is eager to make the most of the home comforts.

Doak said: "This is really the start of the season for me. We have a whole string of tournaments back on European soil and when you're back on home soil it tends to get the juices flowing a bit more.

"I might as well not come out on Tour until April to be honest. I've never been a quick starter but I'm a Scotsman and the season always starts in April doesn't it? Maybe that's ingrained in me.

"The results this season have been far from what I was expecting but I'm certainly not panicking. I don't look at results or order of merits just yet. I've left it late over the last couple of years to keep my card and we're getting used to that now. Hopefully a good result here this week can get things going for me."

Doak's fellow Scot, Stephen Gallacher, is also savouring the opportunity to compete close to home during a season in which he has been back and forwards across the Atlantic on PGA Tour duty.

Despite his travels, the Ryder Cup player, who was fifth at Wentworth in 2014 and fourth in 2010, already feels revitalised again and is gearing himself up for a big run of events as the schedule moves towards the peak season.

He said: "It's great to be back on European soil. When you get two nights in your own bed you don't feel as tired and it feels almost refreshing to play three weeks in a row while still spending some time at home."