Stewart Cink’s replica Claret Jug – spelling mistake and all – takes pride of place in his Atlanta home; now the 2009 Open champion wants to add the Joe Kirkwood Cup to his trophy cabinet.

A late withdrawal 12 months ago, Cink returns to Australia for the first time since the 2003 Australian PGA Championship at Coolum and is ready to go toe-to-toe with the brash new youngsters taking world golf by the scruff of the neck at RACV Royal Pines Resort.

Featuring in a marquee group in the opening two rounds alongside local favourite Adam Scott and West Australian young gun Min Woo Lee, Cink and his wife Lisa spent three days in Queenstown prior to arriving on the Gold Coast but will put any holiday vibes on hold from Thursday.

“I would like to leave here with a trophy, that’s the goal,” said Cink, a six-time PGA Tour winner with close to $US38 million in career prizemoney.

“I’ve played golf a long time and I feel like if you set your sights highest and you really dial it in and try to achieve the best, you’re more likely to maybe get there. That doesn’t mean you will, but you’re more likely to.

“It’s been a long time since I had a trophy and since I won, and my wife is caddying for me this week, so that would be extra special to be able to deliver her the customary 10 per cent cut that a caddie would receive, and no more.”

Here are all the first round tee-times at RACV Royal Pines Resort:

Match Time Tee Player(S)
1 6:00 1

Michael Hendry

Nicolai Hojgaard

Steven Jeffress

2 6:10 1

Anthony Quayle

Hugo Leon

David McKenzie

3 6:20 1

Deyen Lawson

Brad Kennedy

Marcus Armitage

4 6:30 1

Nick Voke

David Smail

David Bransdon

5 6:40 1

Nick Flanagan

Daniel Hillier

Dale Whitnell

6 6:50 1

Josh Geary

Peter O’Malley

Peter Fowler

7 7:00 1

Tom Power Horan

Damien Perrier

Ryan Chisnall

8 7:10 1

Travis Smyth

Damien Jordan

Brad Burns

9 7:20 1

Romain Wattel

Mark Brown

Maverick Antcliff

10 7:30 1

Daniel Young

Kade McBride

Christopher Wood

11 7:40 1

Jesper Sandborg

Harry Bateman

Gavin Fairfax

12 7:50 1

Ashley Hall

Rick Kulacz

Minkyu Kim

13 8:00 1

Fraser MacLachlan

Daniel Pearce

Jordan Mullaney

14 6:00 10

Cameron Champ

Cameron Smith

Ryan Fox

15 6:10 10

Smylie Kaufman

David Micheluzzi

Nick Cullen

16 6:20 10

Nick O’Hern

Lucas Herbert

Peter Lonard

17 6:30 10

Cameron Davis

Matthew Griffin

David Howell

18 6:40 10

Peter Senior

Andrew Dodt

Zach Murray

19 6:50 10

Chen Zihao

Cameron John

Sam Brazel

20 7:00 10

Simon Hawkes

Alejandro Canizares

Hyung Seok Seo

21 7:10 10

Ben Eccles

Aaron Cockerill

Gareth Paddison

22 7:20 10

Cory Crawford

Brett Rumford

James Nitties

23 7:30 10

Yuan Yechun

Hurly Long

Michael Wright

24 7:40 10

Chase Hanna

Stephen Allan

Brett Rankin

25 7:50 10

Jake Higginbottom

Aron Zemmer

Lincoln Tighe

26 8:00 10

Samuel Eaves

Justin Warren

Tim Stewart

27 11:00 1

Adam Scott

Min Woo Lee

Stewart Cink

28 11:10 1

Johannes Veerman

John Senden

Wade Ormsby

29 11:20 1

Jake McLeod

Jason Scrivener

Calum Hill

30 11:30 1

Greg Chalmers

Steven Bowditch

Rod Pampling

31 11:40 1

Marcus Fraser

Richard Green

Terry Pilkadaris

32 11:50 1

Robert Allenby

Jack Wilson

Denzel Ieremia

33 12:00 1

Daniel Nisbet

Jeongwoo Ham

Dave Coupland

34 12:10 1

Matthew Millar

Blake Windred

Robin Petersson

35 12:20 1

Pedro Figueiredo

Campbell Rawson

Andrew Martin

36 12:30 1

Clement Sordet

Matt Jager

Blake Proverbs

37 12:40 1

James Marchesani

Andrew Campbell

Jamie Arnold

38 12:50 1

Janne Kaske

Peter Wilson

Scott Strange

39 13:00 1

Antonio Murdaca

Taylor Macdonald

Shae Wools-Cobb

40 11:00 10

Jason Norris

Rhein Gibson

Dimitrios Papadatos

41 11:10 10

Jarryd Felton

Callan O’Reilly

Jack Senior

42 11:20 10

Harrison Endycott

Mikumu Horikawa

Sebastian Rodriguez

43 11:30 10

Adam Bland

Sami Valimaki

Daniel Gale

44 11:40 10

Toby Tree

Blake Collyer

Aaron Pike

45 11:50 10

Darren Beck

Bryce Easton

Peter Cooke

46 12:00 10

Dylan Perry

Ross McGowan

Michael Long

47 12:10 10

Matthew Stieger

Louis De Jager

Brady Watt

48 12:20 10

Gary Stal

Max McCardle

Aaron Townsend

49 12:30 10

Daniel Gavins

Scott Laycock

Braden Becker

50 12:40 10

Michael Sim

Vernon Sexton-Finck

Adam Burdett

51 12:50 10

Andrew Evans

James Anstiss

Brody Martin

52 13:00 10

Troy Moses

Nathan Green

Dale Brandt-Richards