England's Anthony Wall has set his sights on a second European Tour title. Wall is one of the biggest names to have made the long trip for the first leg of the `South American swing' which begins today in the Sao Paulo Brazil Open before moving to Argentina for the first time next week.

Padraig Harrington has not returned to defend his title, preferring the Players' Championship at Sawgrass along with Europe's big guns, leaving the Irish challenge to David Higgins and Philip Walton. Londoner Wall has no doubts he has made the right decision to compete after seeing the course and suffering a bizarre incident courtesy of the British weather.

"My driver broke last week," the 25-year-old explained. "The face cracked because of the cold weather. It was freezing and the driver just went cold on the range.

"I tried 20 drivers at home, old ones I used to play with but couldn't use any of them anything like the old one. But I came out here and managed to find one which hopefully will work."

Wall won his maiden European Tour title in South Africa last year but what should have been his breakthrough season was interrupted by glandular fever. "I've come here to win and for the world-ranking points," said Wall. "I had a bad deal last year when I won. I got 14 world-ranking points for winning which is not good. Madeira last week got 24 when the field was not half as strong. We got a raw deal."

The absence of so many of Europe's big names means Wall will be among the favourites for victory come Sunday night along with English duo Van Phillips and Warren Bennett and American Hank Kuehne.