The cadence of the European Tour season makes life difficult for everyone as we welcome back the rank-and-file for the Trophee Hassan II.

Come Sunday, it will be four weeks since Stephen Gallacher won the Indian Open and very few here have found somewhere to play competitively in the interim. There will be those who've lost the golden touch, others who have found it, and it's difficult to know who will fill each bracket.

The only certainty is that Royal Golf Dar Es Salam will expose those who are not at their best. This lengthy par 72 has been just about the toughest course on the European Tour over the last three years, its blend of narrow fairways, thick rough and severely undulating greens ensuring that as yet, no winner has reached 10-under-par.

So far, it's been those who are razor-sharp around the greens who've populated leaderboards. That's because even those demonstrating serious control have missed at least one green in four and it's likely that a collection of master scramblers will be right in the mix - even with what looks a kind weather forecast.

Alex Levy's victory over Alvaro Quiros might suggest that as new greens have bedded in and fairways have been ever so slightly widened, things have become more manageable for those who are aggressive, but all-out attack remains unlikely to pay off.

Instead, players who swallow their pride and wait for their chances will surely fare best and in the circumstances I find it impossible to get away from the claims of favourite Joost Luiten.

Now a six-time European Tour winner, there is a theme which runs through the first of them in Indonesia to the latest in Oman, passing by Austria, the Netherlands and Wales on the way.

Luiten is quite simply the best B-list player on the European Tour, and it seems like his career will continue along a familiar path until it ends. Don't expect him to win a major or win the Race To Dubai; do expect him to pick up silverware when among the biggest of fish in a smaller pond.

Here in Morocco, Luiten has finished 14th, 13th and ninth, and his performance last year is worth upgrading as he was playing through the pain barrier with a wrist injury which would ultimately require surgery.

Even so, Luiten managed to lead the field around the greens as he went off in vain pursuit of a Ryder Cup place, a battle he eventually gave up on in the interests of prolonging what's become an excellent career.