Welsh golfer Lydia Hall is hoping for third time lucky in the Ballarat Icons Pro-Am on Saturday and Sunday.
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Hall knows the Ballarat Golf Club course as well as any overseas player after figuring prominently in the first two editions of the ALPG event.
She finished second after a sudden-death play-off with Xi Yu Lin in 2018 - missing a metre-long putt to clinch the title - and finished as strong as anyone with a second round 68 for equal 13th last year.
Full-time on the Ladies' European Tour, Ballarat will be her first event of the Australian summer.
Hall was ranked 31 on the LET last year, with an equal fifth in the South African Open her highest finish.
She also had a top 10 in the Indian Open late in the year.
Hall is one of 43 overseas players confirmed to line up alongside 31 Australians in the Ballarat Pro-Am.
Laura Fuenfstueck and Holly Clyburn will arrive in Ballarat as the early winners on the ALPG Tour this year.
Fuenfstueck (Germany) won the Windaroo Lakes Pro-Am and Holly Clyburn (England) finished on top in the Yamba Pro-Am.
Clyburn was well back in the pack last year, while Fuenfstueck is new to Ballarat.
Fuenfstueck is coming off strong form in 2019 to lock in ninth on the LET order of merit.
She tied for seventh in the Kenya Open to close out the year after top 10 spots in the South African Open, Lalla Meryem Cup in Morocco, Czech Open, French Open and Estrella Damm Open in Spain.
The pro-am is Ballarat's biggest international sports event, with players representing the United States, England, Norway, India, Belgium, Canada, Mexico, Wales, Scotland France, South Korea, New Zealand, Japan, Spain, Iceland, China, Indonesia, Russia, Slovakia, Cook Islands, Taiwan and Austria.
The pro-am's first round will feature a team event with amateurs and shotgun starts at 7.30am and 12.30pm.
The professional-only field tees off on Sunday from 7.30am.
Many of the field are having their last hit-out in readiness for Ballarat in the two-day Moss Valley Pro-Am, which finishes on Wednesday.