Vijay Singh returns to the PGA Tour at the Honda Classic this week, eager to get back to winning ways.
With three major victories and 34 PGA Tour victories to his name, Singh has a career record many of his peers would envy, but the last few years have seen the Fijian struggle to find his form and battling with persistent injuries.
At 49 years old, many would expect Singh to be preparing to launch his senior career, but he's still determined to prove his worth on the regular tour.
"I want to win again," Singh told Reuters. "I think I have a few more wins in me and I want to contend again like I used to.
"I feel stronger now than I did five or six years ago and I am hitting the ball as long as I have ever done. I just need to start playing properly again.
"I want to win, and I want to win really bad."
Winless since 2008, Singh has struggled with the fallout of surgery on his right knee to repair a torn meniscus in January 2009 and lingering back problems for much of 2010.
"If it was only a torn meniscus, it would have been okay," Singh said. "It was a four-week to six-week kind of recovery time but this one took a year-and-a-half.
"And I had to go back for them to remove some of the loose particles that were still moving around there a year after the first surgery.
"That set me back and then through all of that my back went as well and that was the biggest fault I've had in the last two years."
The injuries have severely impacted his ability to swing as loosely and freely as he is famously known for.
"It's just sorting out those few kinks and letting the swing go now," he said. "I've been holding on to it (the swing) for two-and-a-half years now because of injuries, and you can't really let your body release.
"Now I am able to do that but the golf swing doesn't want to go. I can do it on the range but come the golf course I am kind of still holding back. Once I get over that, I think I'll be good."
So far in 2012, Singh has made three cuts out of four on the PGA Tour, and he believes he is starting to regain his best form.
"In Phoenix I got very sick so I didn't make the cut there but the rest of the tournaments I have played all four days," he said. "Now it's all about finding my way back to where I feel my game should be.
"If you watched me on the driving range, I should go out there and win every tournament I play. I just need to take that form over to the golf course.
"I am feeling really good now," said Singh, whose first name means 'victory' in Hindi. "I am healthy and I am strong. I just need to get it together. I really do believe you will see a different side of me at the Honda Classic."
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