World No.1 Jason Day and former No.1 and compatriot Adam Scott are hell bent on continuing their recent hold on World Golf Championship events.
Lining up in the final WGC of the season at Firestone Country Club, Day and Scott have shared the last two lucrative titles between them, with Scott winning at Doral and Day claiming the Match Play.
Day, with his three wins on the US tour this year and Scott, with two, lead the season-long points race and they want to continue doing so.
"I'm really motivated this week. I feel very good about my game. I'm pumped because it's challenging from tee to green, and I think the harder the better it hopefully works out for me," Day said.
"The US Open was tough, we got beat up, but I'm feeling fresh and ready to get some good feelings heading towards the two majors next month."
For Scott, the week is about recapturing his early season form.
After being second in Los Angeles in February, the 2013 Masters champion then won back-to-back weeks in Florida.
But since then, while he's made every cut, he's failed to finish in the top 10 in seven starts.
"It would be nice to get back in that kind of position again, especially after starting the year very strong and just not having really found all my form since that Florida swing," Scott, who won the event in 2011, said.
"I've got to just make sure that I'm not disguising some bad form with some scrambling and putting, and that it's got to be really clicking.
"If it is, then I'm sure I'll get in contention and get that result."
Scott pinpointed driving the ball accurately as the key around Firestone, but for Day a lot of the issues sit on the par-five 16th hole.
Even Day's prodigious length does not guarantee going for the green in two as a pond protects the putting surface.
In the mix late in round three last year, despite making bogey on the hole in the opening two rounds, Day made a triple-bogey eight to scupper his hopes.
"That was terrible," he admitted.
"I made a mess of it and kept on making a mess of it. If I parred that hole for the week, I think I could have had a chance to win. And it's a par-five where usually you try and pick up shots, but hopefully I drive it a little better there this week."
Matt Jones, Steven Bowditch, Marc Leishman, Nathan Holman and Marcus Fraser join the Aussie big guns in the field of 61 for the no-cut event.
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