South Africa's Ernie Els is relishing the prospect of teeing it up at Four Seasons Golf Club Mauritius at Anahita for the first time in ten years this week.
The 28-time European Tour winner returns to a course he designed more than a decade ago for his first-ever Afrasia Bank Mauritius Open at Anahita appearance.
And Els is pleased to be making his return to the island paradise.
He said: "It's really exciting to be back, I haven't been back here since we opened the course.
"It's so nice to have a tournament of this stature played on our golf course.
"It's been ten years since we opened the course and that was the last time I played it.
"We've done quite a few courses since then but it comes flooding back to you.
"I played the front nine earlier, I'll play the back nine now and get myself reacquainted with things - get my memory going again and remember why I put certain things where I did because ten years ago I was a different person playing golf and designing.
"I would like to see what I have done well and what I've done badly.
"It's just nice to come here, see old friends and get reacquainted with the things that we did here. We started this whole project from scratch and to see people enjoying it for the last ten years is quite satisfying.
"It was a late call but when I saw it was going to be the tenth anniversary of the opening of the golf course, I wanted to make an effort to come and play here."
Els said the course was in good shape but issued a warning to the strong field assembled in Mauritius this week about the challenging greens.
He added: "We have wider fairways but most of the holes were built thinking about the winds off the ocean. The greens are pretty small and they are quite undulating so that is where your challenge will be this week.
"You are going to have ample room from the tee and the course is in good shape, so I think the guys can score."
