A major championship, a world top five ranking, a Porsche and maybe a better hair cut are on Australian golfer Adam Scott's 2005 wish list.

This week though the 24-year-old will be hunting his first home soil victory in the $1 million Australian PGA Championship at the Hyatt Coolum resort following a magnificent US season where he won twice and finished the year seventh on the money list and 10th in the world rankings behind Fijian Vijay Singh.

Asked if he'd rewarded himself for his great year in which he claimed the "fifth" major - the Players' Championship - in dramatic fashion after drowning his approach to the last hole, Scott said he hadn't "done anything crazy".

"I got a hair cut, but it wasn't too expensive, I cut it myself," Scott said of his David Beckham crew cut which commanded almost as much attention as his golf game.

Scott has his eye on a new Porsche but flatly refuses to pay the "ridiculously outrageous" insurance because he is under 25.

"I'd love to have a fast car, I just refuse to pay the insurance," said Scott, who's taken over from Stuart Appleby and Robert Allenby as Australia's highest ranked player.

"Maybe next year when I turn 25 I'll get a car."

Scott plans to lift the bar even higher next year, although he admits the big three - Singh, Tiger Woods and Ernie Els - are in a league of their own.

"I'm a long way from the top three," he said.

"I'm not so far from fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh and next year I'd like to sneak up to around fifth, but I'm not going to limit myself even though those (three) guys are a long way out in front of the rest of us."

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