Edoardo Molinari will be trying to win the Omega European Masters in Switzerland this weekend to become the first player to win three times this year.

The Ryder Cup wild card pick has won the Barclays Scottish Open at Loch Lomond and the Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles last week.

He will not be playing with his bother Francesco this time though, as he has taken a week off before travelling to the KLM Open in Holland next week.

Edoardo, who is now ranked 15th in the world has had a remarkable couple of seasons. At the beginning of 2009 he was ranked 653rd and was 166th this time last year, rising into the top one hundred a month later. He is the highest ranked player in the field at Switzerland.

He will be paired with Australian Greg Norman at the Omega Masters. Norman is making his first appearance since a shoulder operation back in September last year.

The only other two members of the Ryder Cup Team playing in Switzerland are Spain’s Miguel Angel Jimenez, who will also be going for his third win of the season and Louis Oosthuizen, winner of this year’s Open Championship. The pair are partnered together.