Three-time Major Champion Padraig Harrington heads into this week's US Open Championship believing it is time he experienced that winning feeling again.
The Irishman won his three championships in a six-Major spell during 2007-08, securing back-to-back Opens at Carnoustie and Royal Birkdale before adding the US PGA title at Oakland Hills.
Harrington, however, has not added to his trophy haul since then and speaking at Pebble Beach ahead of the second Major of the year, the 38 year old said he was due a victory.
"It's been six Majors since I won in 2008. So I'm pretty keen to try and get another win," Harrington said.
"When you win tournaments like that you want to get out there and win another one. And it feels like a long time, even though, as I said, it's really not that many events.
"Obviously I haven't won any sort of regular events, either, but at times I can be distracted at those events and maybe focusing my goals elsewhere.
"But certainly a win would be nice. It would be great if it's this week but any win would be nice.
"It's kind of overdue at this stage, yes."
After four top ten finishes in Europe and the US this season, Harrington's season was interrupted last month by minor knee surgery. He returned last week at the St Jude Classic in Memphis with an opening round of 65 but trailed off in subsequent rounds as he battled fatigue and intense heat.
"Three weeks today I was under the knife. I had arthroscopic surgery on my right knee.," he said.
"It's responded well, I'm comfortable, while it needs a certain amount of minding and I have to look after it, it's not posing any problem to me playing golf.
"It needs me to ice it and get physio on it and to do my exercises and all that sort of stuff but it's not affecting my golf.
"Maybe I'm not hitting the ball or going at it as hard as I could because of that, but that's not needed, either. It's delicate, but it's not inhibiting me."
Meanwhile, if Lee Westwood is going to win his first Major at the 50th attempt at this week's US Open he will do so at his favourite golf course.
World Number Three Westwood returns to the Pebble Beach Golf Links ten years after falling in love with the revered layout on California's Pacific Ocean coast and in perfect shape to convert numerous major near-misses into a much anticipated victory.
The Englishman tied for fifth place in 2000 when the US Open last visited Pebble Beach as Tiger Woods made Majors history with a 15-stroke winning margin.
Now 37, European Number One Westwood has finished in the top three of each of the last three Majors.
He arrived at the venue from Memphis, where he landed his first victory on American soil in 12 years on Sunday at the St Jude Classic.
He had also made a flying visit to Pebble Beach for two days' of practice before heading to Memphis and he said he could not be happier to return.
Westwood said:"It's probably my favourite golf course in the world so I'm obviously delighted to be back and very excited about the week coming up.
"I've played here in the US Open in 2000, I played okay. I was okay for a couple practice rounds before Memphis last week, so I've had a good look at the golf course.
"It was nice to come and play well. There was pretty much nobody else here. So I'm looking forward to going out there today ... and I look forward to getting going on Thursday."
With a second place behind Phil Mickelson at this year's Masters continuing his strong showings at recent Majors, Westwood has shown why he is rated so highly as a contender in the biggest championships, although he said the highest expectations came from within.
"The most pressure comes from me and the expectations I have for what I want to do in the game of golf," he told reporters, before joking: "I hate to tell you this but I don't really pay much attention to what you lot write and think.
"So the main challenge is fulfilling my own expectations and especially over the last couple of years I've been putting myself in a position to win a major and feel like I ought to be expected to win a major now.
"So the greatest pressure comes from me, not from anybody else."
Westwood has also altered the way he is preparing for Majors, repeating his decision to visit Augusta National ahead of the Masters with an advanced look at Pebble Beach, where he played 45 holes in a 36-hour period.
"There was only me here," the Englishman said. "I played 18 holes Sunday morning, nine holes in the afternoon, then 18 holes Monday morning and went to Memphis in the afternoon.
"I don't recall going to a US Open venue and practising before anybody's really got here, so it's just something that I decided to do this year.
"I did it for the Masters and it was successful there. So I figured I better do it for the US Open as well.
"I'll probably do it for The Open Championship at St Andrews, it will be a little bit easier there.
"But I can't quite see away of doing it for (the US PGA at) Whistling Straits. But hopefully it will go well."
