Unlike at the PGA, where the Victorian missed the cut and found out he had a spot at Oak Hill the week prior, Micheluzzi has known he had a place at Royal Liverpool since locking up the PGA Tour of Australasia Order of Merit title.

“Because I found out so late for the PGA and I was playing the week before, going into the week I arrived on Monday, I think early afternoon, so everything felt kind of rushed. Whereas for this tournament I actually came in last Monday,” Micheluzzi told Australian media this week.

The week on the grounds, spent practicing and watching Netflix, has him feeling progressively more excited about the 151st Open Championship, as opposed to the slightly “daunting” feeling at the PGA, while he surely did experience nerves on Tuesday.

Having long identified Jon Rahm as a player that he would love to play with, albeit with slight trepidation, Micheluzzi went out with the reigning Masters champion and Phil Mickelson to further scout the course.

“The one person I will probably shit myself with, would be Rahm,” he said of the Spaniard earlier this week. “I was hitting balls next to him and kind of felt like the aura was ‘oh my god this is really cool’.

“I feel like you have to do it at some point, because if you want to do this for a living, you are going to have play with them at some point. Diving straight in is a great idea.”

Micheluzzi went out for a Tuesday practice round with Jon Rahm and Phil Mickelson. PHOTO: Andrew Redington/Getty Images.

Diving straight in is part of Micheluzzi’s persona that has seen him go from highly ranked amateur, to struggling in his early days as a pro, back to a dominant force on his home Tour to earn a DP World Tour card for next season.

His “just send it” approach surely holding him in good stead this week after finding form with a recent 62 at the Made In Himmerland and with his coaches, Marty Joyce and Andrew Cooper arriving in Hoylake for a reconnection after three months apart.

“Once I get around the top-15, top-10 and all that, I feel like I can go further. I don’t want to sound too cocky, but I do like my chances,” he said. “You’ve got to be confident going into the week that you can compete with these guys. So I like my chances.”

That confidence, and the “send it” mantra, is akin to another Spaniard, whom both Rahm and Mickelson have had constant comparisons with, and Cooper has been encouraging Micheluzzi to mould his short game on.

Seve Ballesteros won the Claret Jug on three occasions, and his mastery with a wedge has been a regular search for Micheluzzi on the internet at the behest of Cooper.

"I’ve watched plenty of videos of Seve hitting crazy shots and even just standard shots, normal pitch-and-runs, just how he plays them, how he grips it and all that sort of stuff. It’s fun to work on.” – David Micheluzzi.

“Just use more imagination, using the wedge in different ways,” he said of the work the pair have undertaken. “Seeing different shots, how it reacts on these surfaces here, you have to be very creative.

“A bit of Seve, a bit of Ernie, there are a few others he (Cooper) likes showing me. I am very visual; I like watching people do something then I try and do it. I’ve watched plenty of videos of Seve hitting crazy shots and even just standard shots, normal pitch-and-runs, just how he plays them, how he grips it and all that sort of stuff. It’s fun to work on.”

The other area of the game that could see Micheluzzi thrive this week is if the weather takes a turn for the worse, as it did for much of Tuesday’s practice.

“I actually enjoy it. Well, to a point. If it is raining hard and you can’t hold your umbrella up, that’s when you are like ‘Ok, it’s probably maybe too much’. But a little bit of wind and a little bit of rain, I love it.”

If the English weather is at its fickle best, and Micheluzzi channels his Spanish influences of Seve’s short game and Rahm’s “aura” who knows what’s in store for him this week.

One thing that is certain, the revhead knows exactly how he would celebrate a win.

“Probably an (Nissan) R35 GT-R,” he said. “That’s been on my mind for a little bit, but if I am going to win The Open, then maybe like a Porsche GT3 or something.”