Coming off a career-best season form-wise on the USPGA Tour, Robert Allenby has set himself to repeat his unprecedented Australian clean-sweep of 2005 by claiming the Masters, the PGA Championship and Open titles over the next three weeks.
"Not to be greedy, but I am here to try to win all three," said a matter-of-fact Allenby at Huntingdale on Wednesday.
"I've done it before and I know I can do it again."
"I can only control myself and I know what I can do and if I do it to the best of my ability I know I can win by a long way."
"The direction that I'm going, I know only good things are going to happen and if I keep moving ahead the way I'm thinking, I can create probably anything."
Allenby is the only player in the Masters field this week who could make such a declaration and not risk having it dismissed as braggadocio.
His case is strengthened by a nine-under 63 in Wednesday's pro-am, which suggests he's managed to retain the outstanding form which helped him to make 27 cuts from 28 starts and US$3.6 million in prizemoney on the USPGA Tour in 2008.
"It's been the best year I've had on tour out of all my years, but without a victory," Allenby said.
"In several tournaments this year, maybe three or four of them, I should have won, but didn't."
"That's golf and you've got to accept it."
Looking relaxed and at ease, Allenby credits hard work on the lower half of his body for being 'pain-free' in his hips and knees which, if he can stay that way, will keep him near the top of the rankings, he expects, for the next decade.
The 37-year-old also said that being able to stay in the moment had helped him to get the best out of himself.
Quizzed about John Daly's participation at Huntingdale this week, Allenby said: "I don’t really care who's in the field, as long as I beat him."
"I don’t need a win. I've had a great year. I don’t need to come out here and win," he said.
"But I know I'm playing well-enough to win and with the way I played today around this golf course if I shoot four rounds of nine-under, I'll be doing pretty good."