Fresh off his triumph at the Honda Classic, new World No 1 Rory McIlroy is ready for the next challenge.
McIlroy is in Miami for this week's WGC-Cadillac Championship at Doral's Blue Monster course, his last tournament before he heads to Augusta in early April to try and avenge his collapse in the final round of last year's Masters.
Not that that implosion has hurt him in the long run. Only two months later he triumphed at the US Open championship and now, as the World No 1, he is eager for more success.
Barring any late withdrawals, the game's top 50 are all present this week - Mickelson, Woods, Westwood, Donald, Kaymer - they're all ready to do battle in what promises to be another epic four days of golfing action.
McIlroy isn't expected to have it all his own way. Both Westwood and Donald could take over at the top of the rankings once again should they win this week, and there's also the small matter of a Tiger Woods, fresh off a final-round 62 at the Honda Classic - his best round of golf in over two years.
Despite all that competition, however, McIlroy admits he's never felt more confident.
"It's great to get to this position and obviously I'd love to stay here for as long as possible," he said.
"I just need to concentrate on playing good golf, trying to win tournaments, and if I can do that then the position I'm at in the world rankings will hopefully take care of itself.
"The way that I did it on Sunday, with Tiger making the charge, it was almost more satisfying to do it that way - knowing that I held up under pretty intense pressure when I needed to, having to just play some smart and solid golf on the way in to finish off.
"Closing out tournaments and knowing what you need to do at the right time all just comes with experience.
"I feel like I've had a lot of experiences where I could have won tournaments and I haven't, and it's taking what you need from those and trying to do something a little bit better."
Certainly last year at Augusta was one of those learning experiences. Leading by four with one round to play, McIlroy shot an 80 in the final round to fall well back.
Understandably, he's eager to return the Masters and right that wrong, and has decided that taking a lengthy break from professional competition ahead of the year's first major is the best strategy.
"Next week I have my coach Michael Bannon over from Northern Ireland. The week after that I will spend a little bit of time down in Miami," he said.
"Then the week before The Masters I'll go up to Augusta for a couple of days to do what I usually do - map the course out and sort of do my own diagrams and my own drawings of the greens.
"You sort of know where the pin positions are going to be for all four days, so you sort of reacquaint yourself with those, take different putts from all areas of the greens.
"After that I'll go back down to West Palm Beach and practise for a few more days, then head back up to Augusta on Monday night or Tuesday morning."
Following his triumph last week, which led to him taking over at the top of the world rankings, the messages of congratulations came flooding in - including from the likes of Manchester United trio Wayne Rooney, Rio
Ferdinand and Sir Alex Ferguson (three guesses who Rory supports), but he's learning to take it all in his stride.
"I feel like I do thrive in the spotlight and I like the attention," he said. "I'm not saying I'm an attention-seeker, but you know you're doing something right when you're in the spotlight.
"I don't feel like I'm under any pressure to keep the number one because that's not what I play golf for - it's about winning tournaments."
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