Scott kickstarts Trent & # 039; s dream week

Aussie Jack Trent enjoys a great summer in the United States. Photo: USGA

Jack Trent ran away last week at a gym in Las Vegas when he took a phone call he never dreamed of.

Trent, 20, looked at his phone and didn't even consider answering a number he didn't recognize, but soon became very happy that he pressed the little green button.

"Hello Jack, this is Adam Scott," came the voice.

"Do you want to play a practice round next week?"

For a young Queenslander who worked almost anonymously – from an Australian perspective – on his game in Nevada for the past five years of his life, this was almost unbelievable.

"It's pretty surreal," Trent told Inside The Ropes as he prepares for his PGA Tour debut at this week's Shriners Hospitals for Children Open.

"He was my hero who grew up … I can't believe I'm going to play a practice round with him tomorrow."

Coincidentally, the pair were both played at Headlands Golf Club on the Sunshine Coast, both former students of Matthew Flinders Anglican College in Buderim and Trent are now in his junior year at Scott & # 39; s alma mater, UNLV.

"I promise I won't steal it," Trent joked, still proudly Australian in both voice and nature.

"But now I can play with him. Unreal."

It will be that week for Trent, who earlier this year defeated amateur world Cole Hammer number 2 in a play-off at the Southern Highlands Collegiate tournament.

The prize, apart from a top class field for his first university victory, was a ticket to play this week at TPC Summerlin in Las Vegas.

As fate would have it, it is one of the jobs that Trent regularly played as a junior when he and his family moved to Nevada at the age of 15 to promote his golf career.

He won two Nevada state titles in high school and quickly builds a strong resume for the rebels, including the freshman conference of the year in 2017, and achieving the 32nd round in this year's American amateur in Pinehurst.

But for now it's a taste of what Trent hopes his future will be – a shot with the big boys on & # 39; the world's biggest tour.

"It's going to be great," Trent said.

"I'm probably lucky it's on a job that I know pretty well, but yes, I'm sure I'm going to get nervous.

"But I have to get used to it.

"I will probably play just as nervously with Adam on Tuesday."

Don't be afraid, Jack, you're in good hands.