Geoff Ogilvy is aiming to complete one of the great golf comebacks by winning the FedEx Cup just a month after facing playoff oblivion.
Before teeing it up at the Barracuda Championship in Reno a month ago, Ogilvy was languishing at 151st in the season-long FedEx Cup points list, next to no chance of cracking the top 125 to make the playoffs.
Australia's 2006 US Open champion had free fallen from his once lofty perch in golf, dropping from a career-high third in the world rankings to No.216.
He was without a top-10 finish since March 2013 and, while he felt he was turning a corner, the numbers were ugly.
And then, he won in Reno.
It was his eighth US tour win but first since January 2010, catapulting him into the playoffs.
While any win is impressive, this one did come while the world's top ranked players were away a World Golf Championships event.
And when he missed the cut in the opening playoff event once again it appeared his season was over.
But he was able to scrape into week two as the 100th and last man in and he seized the chance with both hands, powering home with back-to-back bogey-free 65s, threatening to win again before having to settle for second.
Now, at 24th in the standings and back to 76th in the world rankings he is just a top-58 finish in a 69-man field in the BMW Championship in Colorado this week away from clinching a spot in next week's 30-man Tour Championship in Atlanta - and a berth in next year's Masters, US Open and British Open.
Ogilvy's confidence is back and he's setting his sights even higher, thinking about winning the FedEx Cup and its $US10 million bonus - a result that would lay claim to one of the biggest comebacks the sport has witnessed.
"I am back in the mix to win the whole thing, which is pretty cool," said Ogilvy.
"Obviously it would take a very strong two weeks but at least I am back in the mix and if I am able to get through this week and get back to the Masters and all those things it would be pretty exciting, especially from where I was a few months ago.
"I am obviously playing well and I would like to contend in this tournament and then not have to worry about the points permutations going forward.
"The goal is readjusted.
"Anyone can mathematically win the whole thing from Atlanta but it would help being up closer towards the top 10.
"You would be unlucky, historically speaking, to win the Tour Championship from inside the top 10 and not win the FedEx Cup (as well) so I would like to have a really strong week and move up 10 or 15 spots to go there with a real chance to win it all."
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