Elvis Smylie has no intention of taking his foot off the gas after making a sensational start to his DP World Tour career in 2025.
The Australian had made 15 DP World Tour appearances across four seasons before making his professional breakthrough on the PGA Tour of Australasia at the Bowra & O’Dea Nexus Advisernet WA Open.
He brought that form into his 16th start on the DP World Tour by winning the BMW Australian PGA Championship and since then he has not missed a cut to sit sixth on the Race to Dubai Rankings.
He has also gone from 736th to inside the top 200 on the Official World Golf Ranking and while he could quite rightly already consider his season a success, Smylie has no intention of resting on his laurels.
“I'm really looking forward to keeping the momentum going,” he said ahead of this week's Ras Al Khaimah Championship. “I played OK last week in my first Rolex Series event in Dubai. Looking to build on some good momentum here in the Middle East.
“You obviously want to build on some great momentum and at the end of the year, there's ten cards up for grabs on the PGA TOUR. So that's very much a goal of mine to try and get in the top ten in the Race to Dubai and getting off to a fast start definitely helps.
“Just try and build some confidence going through the middle part of the year because there's obviously a lot of great golfers out here. You want to get off to a good start to feel as comfortable as you can.”
Smylie's status as a DP World Tour winner in 2025 will guarantee him a place in the field for the Rolex Series events at the Genesis Scottish Open and the BMW PGA Championship and all of the season's Second Phase, the Back 9.
With his lofty ambitions, he will also be aiming to make the DP World Tour Play-Offs and the final two Rolex Series events of the year but between now and then, he is hoping to enjoy all that golf's global tour has to offer.
“I was obviously planning my season ahead and looking at some of the key marquee events,” he said.
“I'm really looking forward to playing the BMW PGA at Wentworth and fortunately enough, I've got some really good mates here on the DP World Tour that I can travel with and spend some time with. So that's definitely helped the adjustment.
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“That win back in December in Australia, back home in Brisbane, was life-changing for me to be able to have the chance now to compete on the DP World Tour for two years and compete against some of the best players in the world. It's only going to help my game moving forward and just being able to travel to some amazing places around the world.
“I’m most looking forward to playing the Italian Open this year in Tuscany. I've never been there before.”
Smylie joins a host of Antipodean talent on the DP World Tour and he is happy to have some familiar faces with him, including this week at Al Hamra Golf Club.
“Dave Micheluzzi is a good mate of mine and he's a real bubbly personality,” he said. “So I think as much as you are competing against them on tour, you're also competing against the golf course, so whenever I get off the course, I'll always try and hang out with Micha and some of the other Aussies as well.
“Really looking forward to this week. I played the front nine yesterday morning with Foxy (Ryan Fox), Dan Hillier and Jason Scrivener. It was like an Aussie versus New Zealand affair. So I got some tips off Foxy, he's a former winner here.
“If the wind blows quite a lot I felt like you need to do a really good job at controlling the flight of your golf ball and there's a couple of couple of tricky holes and demanding tee shots that you need to make sure you get the start lines correct on.”
