Colm Moriarty will be aiming for a Challenge Tour double as he heads to his home course for this week's Challenge of Ireland presented by Glasson.

What a difference a week makes. Seven days ago, the Athlone 28-year-old was relying on invitations to Challenge Tour events as he attempted to get his career back on track after a dismal 2006 season.

He had been playing some great golf this season on the third level EuroPro Tour where he won one tournament before racking up another four top ten finishes in six events, but faced a long battle to climb to the top level of European golf.

Now, after winning the FIRSTPLUS Wales Challenge last weekend, Moriarty has a great chance to win a place on The 2008 European Tour as one of the top 20 on the Rankings, having moved from 176th to 34th in the space of three days following his €20,800 victory in Wales.

Much of the credit for Moriarty's upturn in form has to go to his coach Brendan McDaid and psychologist Liam Moggan, two men he turned to at the start of the year after the darkest period of his professional career last season.

"I went out to Arizona at the start of the year to try and get an idea of where my game was at," Moriarty explained.

"I played really poorly out there and I rang Brendan when I was making my way home from America on the Thursday. Myself and Kate Gallagher, who won the Irish Girls recently, went out to San Roque in Spain with Brendan on the Monday for a week.

"I haven't looked back since and there is no doubt that it is in no small part down to Brendan. He has instilled confidence back in my game and we all know how much this game is about confidence and belief.

"Liam has been a big help as well - it's no surprise that I didn't go and see him too much last season when I was hitting it all over the place!"

Moriarty's focus now turns to this week's €150,000 Challenge Tour event at his home course, the Glasson Golf Hotel and Country Club.

"I'm looking forward to this week even more now because there won't be as much pressure on me to do well. Playing on your home course without a category and with a lot of local interest would have been a lot of pressure, but after winning last week a lot of that pressure has lifted and I can try and play my game and do well again.

"It should be fantastic this week and hopefully myself or one of the other Irish boys can keep this run going - we're doing alright at the moment after Padraig winning two weeks ago and me last week."