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The Nordea Masters heads to Hills Golf Club near Gothenburg and Ryder Cup hopeful Thorbjorn Olesen is very much the star attraction.

Now achingly close to making Thomas Bjorn's side automatically and holding very strong credentials when it comes to a wild card pick if he fails to do so, it will be fascinating to see how Olesen copes as the biennial event, which takes place at a course he knows and plays very well, draws closer.

Here in Sweden, the other key challenge is getting over a busy fortnight in the United States where third place at Firestone was followed by a comparatively lacklustre effort in the PGA Championship, but coping with jet lag shouldn't be a problem for Olesen given that he's twice won tournaments in Australia.

In fact, we can draw genuine encouragement from his form when returning to Europe from America and specifically after the final major of the season. Four times, Olesen has flown from the US to Europe in mid-August and his results when stepping off the plane read 14-7-9-15, so there really should be no excuses on that front.

Fit as a fiddle, the London-based Dane won't have any issues with the physical demands of this undulating par 71 and while not quite on home soil, his first professional victory came in Sweden at the start of the decade and he bagged his best finish in this event when inside the top five just last year.

In other words, the class act of the field on all recent evidence is very much the man to beat and at 10/1, it's a fairly straightforward decision to include him in the staking plan. Form such as his Italian Open victory in the spring, a career highlight, plus second in Germany and third at Firestone make him by some way the most likely winner and with the Ryder Cup there to sharpen focus, Olesen may well be up to qualifying in style.