Peter Senior has dismissed the controversial 61-grass Titantic II advertising signs dotted around the Coolum layout along with the 25-foot high replica dinosaur named Jeff spotting about this week’s Australian PGA Championship course.

“No it doesn’t worry me, as long as the dinosaur doesn’t crap anywhere we’ll be right,” said Senior smiling

Senior tried to play down his chances of securing back-to-back tournament victories at this week’s Australian PGA Championship at the Palmer Coolum Resort on Tuesday – but he wasn’t very convincing.

Peter Senior not fearing 25-foot high dinosaur named Jeff. (Photo – Anthony Powter/www.golffile.ie)

The 53-year-old became the oldest-ever winner of the Australian Open last week after carding a superb final-round 72 in gale-force winds at The Lakes.

Senior has already claimed the Australian Open-Australian PGA double once before – in 1989 – and also has form at Coolum, having won twice there as a professional, including two years ago as a spritely 51-year-old when he became the oldest-ever winner of an Australasian Tour event.

But the veteran was coy about his chances when asked if he is worth having a flutter on this week.

“I don’t know about that, I think you better keep your money in your pockets, lightning doesn’t strike in the same place twice,” he said.

But the laconic Queenslander blew his cover in the very next breath, conceding his game is perfectly suited to the Coolum layout.

“Coolum has been a good hunting ground for me and I’ve played pretty well here over the last few years and won twice around here,” Senior said.

“It’s a course where the longer hitters don’t have a great advantage, it’s more about placement and if I can putt as I did last week, who knows.”

Senior, who almost walked away from the game in the late 90s, admitted he is now playing the best golf of his life.

“I’m probably hitting it more consistently than I did in the late 80s, early 90s when I had a good stretch of tournaments there,” he said.

“I’m definitely more consistent than I have ever been and I have to thank (swing coach) Gary Edwin for that, we have worked pretty hard on certain areas.

“He has just made my golf a little more long term now. In 1997 I went to Gary and I was almost ready to give the game away I was playing that badly.

“We worked a bit on it and turned it around … he has been fantastic, I owe a lot to him and his son Luke, who watches over my short game.

“I am pretty pleased with the way I’ve played over the last three years, hopefully I can get another two or three years out of it and then I’ll probably call it quits.”

* Story thanks to www.pgatour.com.au