A bunch of injections means Matthew Millar's back is back.
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And the Canberra golfer is hoping happy memories will have him back contending for the $1.5 million Vic Open, which starts on Thursday.
Millar was forced to withdraw from the Australian PGA Championships in December due to his troublesome back.
But a series of injections has helped the inflamed facet joints in the middle of his back to settle down.
He's hoping the effects will last for at least eight weeks, which would take him through until mid March.
"As long as it doesn't wear off before then I'll be happy," Millar said.
"It's been good. I'm doing a bit of rehab work with it too with some physios that work with our tour.
"Just have to keep going and try and rest it where possible."
That rest won't come this week as Millar heads down to 13th Beach, near Geelong, for the Vic Open.
It's a tournament where he was runner-up in 2016, losing a play-off to fall narrowly short.
Millar will draw on memories of that trip down to Victoria in a bid to launch a similar challenge this year.
He's taking in some form as well from his past week playing a series of pro-ams down in country Victoria.
The Canberran won at Traralgon and had a couple of seconds as well.
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"I feel like I'm playing pretty good. I feel pretty good about it. I do like the courses," Millar said.
"It's just a matter of capturing back [those memories of] a couple of those good ones where I've played well there and channel those ones."
After the Vic Open, Millar will head north for the Queensland PGA and the Queensland Open, before travelling across the ditch for the New Zealand Open at Queenstown.
He was thankful for the invite to the latter, which he felt was a reward for a couple of good seasons on the PGA Tour of Australasia.
Millar's gone close at the Queensland PGA in Toowoomba, where he's finished second three times in the past five years.
"That's a good place to go. It might not be one of hugest events on the tour, but it'd still be nice to get your hands on a trophy," he said.
"I certainly like the way the golf course sits there and it suits my eye.
"I usually putt quite well and read the greens well there so looking forward to that one."
But it's all a warm-up for a stint on the Japan Golf Tour.
He's planning to play a few events on the second-tier Challenge Tour in April, before getting a run of tournaments on the tour proper.
The Kansai Open Golf Championship will start three consecutive weeks where he's looking to play.
Some good results there will help him climb the money ranking and continue to get more starts after that.
"I'll probably play a little bit on their Challenge Tour, which is their secondary tour, in April," Millar said.
"Should be at least two, maybe three, weeks I play there.
"Then I think there'll be another Challenge event in May which leads into possibly three starts in a row - third week of May to the first week of June.
"I should get some starts on the main tour and hopefully if i can just make a few bucks through those starts I'll move up and get maybe seven out of the nine before they re-rank the numbers again."