Baker, who finished just inside the mid-season cut, opens his G-Land campaign against Slater and West Australian Jack Robinson in heat two.

"I said at the start of the year that once I qualified my main goal for the year was, always to make the cut, but to get to G-Land," Baker said.

"That's where me and my dad [Guy] used to do father-son trips growing up. I've got a fair bit of experience there. To be able to go over there and take the old boy there when I'm paying - it's on me old boy so don't worry - it's going to be pretty special.

"It'll almost be weird that it's my first year on tour, G-Land is back on tour and it's somewhere my dad took me for father-son trips to get me better at backside surfing and backside barrels. I'll see if those years paid off."

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