Chaka DeSilva says he is “excited” to be peaking in the build-up to two of the biggest events on his golf calendar this year.

The Mid Ocean Club professional is set to compete in the season ending Moongate Tour Championship and Butterfield Bermuda Championship Local Qualifier, which will both be held at Port Royal Golf Course.

DeSilva, 42, has every reason to be confident for the upcoming events after finishing second and tied for first in his previous two appearances on the Moongate Tour, of which he is a co-founder.

“I am really excited that my golf game is looking better and feeling comfortable at this time of year,” DeSilva told The Royal Gazette.

“I would hate for it to be the other way around and be playing well early and not feeling so comfortable with my game right now. I much prefer where I stand right now.”

DeSilva is among the top 18 players to have qualified for the 36-hole Moongate Tour Championship, which will also feature multiple Tour medallist Damian Palanyandi and Nick Jones and is held on Friday and Saturday at Port Royal.

“The Moongate Tour is doing exactly what it needs to do, it’s driving competition,” he added. “When you come out here you know someone is going to put up a good round where you got to shoot under par to either give yourself a chance of winning or placing.”

DeSilva is reaping the benefits of his commitment to perfecting his craft to bolster his chances of achieving success at the two upcoming events.

“With the qualifier around the corner, I have just been paying more attention to golf and putting more effort in,” he said.

“Obviously I have a family, so I don’t have all year to contribute 100 per cent to golf. I have to balance it right now and my family fully understands that now is the time I need to go ahead and pay a bit more focus to golf because there’s a couple of big events t coming up that I would love to participate in and be in form for.”

DeSilva made his debut in the Butterfield Bermuda Championship at Port Royal last year and he hopes to take his place among some of the PGA Tour’s elite again this year, but first he has his work cut out competing in what he anticipates will be the most formidable field yet at the Local Qualifier on October 4-5.

“I am really excited for this qualifier,” DeSilva saidd. “It should be one of the strongest fields that you are ever going to see in Bermuda.

“I think it’s going to be a super exciting qualifier. I am really excited for that and just hope that I am going to be one of the guys there on the second day with a chance to play in a PGA Tour event again.”

Micheal Sims, Camiko Smith, Palanyandi and Brian Morris were the other local players to compete in last year’s PGA Tour event. Sims, Smith and Palanyandi qualified with DeSilva while Morris received a sponsor exemption.

A minimum of three local qualifiers will be among a field of 132 players that will compete for a share of $6.5 million in prize money and FedEx Cup points on offer in this year’s Butterfield Bermuda Championship to be held at Port Royal from October 27 to 30.

Kim Swan, the former European Tour professional and chairman of the Port Royal Golf Course Board of Trustees, is the first local player confirmed for entry after accepting the first of four sponsor exemptions.