Adam Scott is hoping a hot start to 2016 can help reverse a curse that has left him without a WGC-Match Play win since 2010.
World No.6 Scott has a dismal 3-11 record in the event since 2006, losing his last seven straight encounters, but hopes his dual winning start to the season will help change the trend in Texas this week.
"I'd like to win a match. It's been a while, it feels like," Scott said.
"I'd like to turn it around because I don't really want to get a beatdown this week and go home Friday."
Scott's recent good run - which resulted in back-to-back wins in Florida - has come despite some major blowouts.
He won the Honda Classic after a Saturday quadruple bogey and backed up to win the WGC Cadillac Championship with two Sunday double bogeys.
But was unable to recover last week at the Arnold Palmer invitational, with a triple bogey and double bogey on the final hole each weekend round.
Despite knowing any such blow up would only cost him a hole this week, he wants to eradicate his mistakes.
"This week it's a discipline thing, it's not being loose, not going for too much, playing like I'm back starting from scratch with something to achieve," Scott said.
"Last week I think I played a lot of great golf, but a few loose shots into the water cost me a lot, cost me a chance at the tournament.
"I think I've made enough of them (big numbers) now and I've got away with them a couple of times. It caught up with me last week.
"I need to tighten the game up a little bit because certainly if I'm not punished this week, I'll be punished at Augusta for those kind of errors. It's an important time of year to be keeping the confidence where it's at."
The Queenslander takes on Thomas Pieters on the opening day, who is playing with plenty of emotion as the only Belgian in the field amidst the terror attacks in his home country.
Jason Day will kickstart the Australian tilt with his match against Graeme McDowell before Marc Leishman tackles American Ryan Moore.
Matt Jones faces South African Louis Oosthuizen and Marcus Fraser is confident of an upset against current British Open champion Zach Johnson.
The Victorian has wracked up the frequent flier miles in recent weeks playing in Malaysia, where he won, before Perth, then Miami, then India, before arriving in Texas.
If he can make the semi finals a likely berth in the Masters awaits.
"It's a bit of a win-win because if I get that far obviously I can play the Masters but if I don't I'll have a well earned and welcomed six weeks off," he said.
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