Coming back to Oakland Hills certainly stirs some good memories for me from four years ago although my recollection of the Sunday night of the Ryder Cup is a little bit hazy.

The golf course for this year's US PGA Championship is not quite the same as it was then, but it's just length they've added to it and hopefully it's going to suit me.

My last two tournaments in America have seen me finish third in the US Open and second at last week's WGC Bridgestone so I'm hoping to go one better this week. I'm playing all right at the moment and I hope to carry that form through.

Although during the Ryder Cup the fairways were a little bit more running and the greens were a bit quicker, I can only imagine that the greens are only going to get quicker as the week goes on. I think they leave them a little bit longer for practice rounds. Come Thursday, they will speed them up a yard or so.

I'll definitely be hoping to keep my form up because when you look at my record, when I get on a roll, I tend to stay on that roll for a good while. And when I do win, I win a few tournaments in a block.
So this will be a good place to start off winning. Obviously carrying a lot of confidence through from last week and it's always good to come back somewhere where you've played well in the past and you have good memories from.
You look at the Bridgestone thing; Vijay, he doesn't play well for three months and he wins one and he starts playing well again. So as golfers, it's a game of confidence, and you do pick up things and sort of cling on to things that are good that have happened to you in the past.
It does surprise me that a European has not won in such a long time. When you consider the strength of the European golf, especially over the last 25 years with the likes of Nick Faldo and Seve and Woosie and Bernhard and Sandy and people like that. And not forgetting Monty who's had his fair of close shaves. Monty had a good chance at a couple and amazing that none of us would win. But it was obviously great for European golf what happened here in 2004. So as a whole we should be buoyed by that.

Nobody will be trying harder than me so here's to a good week and something very positive to report next week.