Australia's US PGA Tour stars say they are open to participating in a domestic high-stakes exhibition match similar to the Las Vegas showdown between Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson.
On Wednesday, Woods and Mickelson confirmed their rumoured, winner-takes-all $US9 million ($A12 million) match is set for Friday, November 23 at Shadow Creek golf course in Vegas.
Woods' made-for-television spectacle has revived interest in the lost tradition of exhibition golf and 2013 Masters winner Adam Scott has no doubt something similar could work in Australia, on a smaller scale.
"I think anyone would enjoy seeing a head-to-head match back home," Scott told AAP at the US PGA Tour's Northern Trust in New Jersey.
Undoubtedly, fans would want to see Scott and fellow former world No.1 Jason Day face off and Scott welcomed an 18-hole match between the pair.
"Yeah, I think it'd all be in good fun," Scott said.
"It does a lot of good for the game, even if it's just for a very small audience.
"I'd like to think there is room for exhibition golf; it's something the tour down there should maybe look at trying to do."
US Tour winner Cameron Smith was also fond of the idea, particularly if the top four Australians on the world rankings - currently Day, Marc Leishman, Scott and himself - competed in a two-round elimination match on an iconic Australian course.
"I think it's a great idea; absolutely," Smith said.
"Any exposure for golf in Australia at the moment is good.
"If there were three or four of us that were going to do it, I think it'd be awesome and you could do it all in one day."
Exhibition golf - pitting the sport's biggest names against each other in unofficial tournaments - enjoyed a hot period from the 1960s to the early 2000s.
It was launched by Shell's Wonderful World of Golf series by Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer and even saw the late Australian Peter Thomson take on Player at Royal Melbourne in 1962.
An annual four-player skins game also became wildly popular on American Thanksgiving day but has not been played since 2008.
An Australian criticism of Woods' November clash with Mickelson is that it falls during the third round of the US Tour's golf World Cup in Melbourne.
It is unclear if and how Australians will be able to access the pay-per-view match in Vegas, but that is scheduled to finish after midday AEDT on Saturday, November 24 - before broadcast coverage of the third day of the World Cup would start.
"We're going to have fun showcasing golf on different platforms," 14-time major winner Woods said in New Jersey.
"It's something that's never been done before; having it on pay-per-view."
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