Australian Masters champion Peter Senior's love affair with the soon-to-be-outlawed broomstick putter will linger for the remaining two tournaments in Australia before being forced to ditch it for his final season on the US Champions Tour.

The 56-year-old, one of the pioneers of using the long putter when first experimenting with it 1989, has so far resisted the urge to revert to the shorter one as many other golfers have during a transition phase.

Any putter that anchors against the stomach or chest will be banned from January 1.

"I'm going to play the next two tournaments with the long putter and then I'm going to change to the short one," Senior said before the Australian Open begins in Sydney on Thursday.

"I've talked to Adam Scott about it. I'm going to do the same as what he's been doing. But the first two tournaments in America next year will be worth watching. It could be a very long year or it could be a very short year."

Having put an exclamation mark on his career with a fairytale Australian Masters win at Huntingdale last week - capping the trifecta of Australian majors he has won in his 50s - Senior will only play for one more year with a full-time card on the Champions Tour.

He has promised his wife June they will holiday together in Europe in 2017 and will only return for the Australian summer if Senior thinks he can still be competitive.

"I've had enough - not so much of the golf, but the travel," Senior said. "I just hate being away from home."

His customary humour remains, though. Jokingly told he is like an immoveable object that always seems to be there, he provided a solution to Australian cricket's recent red-faced way punctuated by a WACA debacle.

"If they ever need a sight screen for the cricket I'm ready," he joked.

On a more serious note he downplayed his recent achievements and standing in the pantheon of Australian golfing legends before locking horns with the world's leading amateur and Australian Masters joint runner-up Bryson DeChambeau in a marquee pairing on Thursday.

"I'd put myself in the second category behind Peter Thomson, [Greg] Norman, Adam Scott ... those sorts of guys," Senior said. "I've been a good player, but I haven't been a great player.

"I've won a bunch of tournaments, but you've got to be realistic. I only ever got to about 20 in the world on the world rankings and that says it all. Never really had a chance to win a major. Fourth was the best I ever did, probably at the British Open, so the great players of the game will always win majors."