Tiger Woods insisted winning is still very much at the forefront of his mind as he prepared to tee it up at the Omega Dubai Desert Classic this week.
The 14-time Major Championship winner is just resuming a full schedule after a long spell out with back problems and is playing his first European Tour event since the 2015 US PGA Championship.
This is also his first regular event since he teed it up at Emirates Golf Club in 2014, a venue where he has been dominant, securing two wins and three further top fives in seven appearances.
Having fallen to Number 666 in the Official World Golf Ranking, there is a lot of anticipation but little expectation surrounding Woods' return to the European Tour, but the American insists he would not be here if he did not feel he could win.
"If I'm teeing it up, that's the goal," he said. "The goal is to win it.
"Over the course of my career, I have been less successful at winning golf tournaments than winning tournaments but the goal is to win and that doesn't change.
"Whether I'm injured, coming off an injury or I'm playing well or I'm playing poorly, if I'm in the event, it's to win the event.
"I've had lean years there where I didn't win. I think I have ten years where I won five or more tournaments but there have also been years where I didn't win a thing and I struggled. I was changing my game and I did not play well.
"I just like to put myself in contention as many times as I possibly can to get those wins and this is a good week to start off doing that."
Whether I'm injured, coming off an injury or I'm playing well or I'm playing poorly, if I'm in the event, it's to win the event - Tiger Woods
Woods was an interested spectator last week as tennis great Roger Federer came back from six months out with injury to win his 18th Grand Slam title at the age of 35 at the Australian Open.
Were Woods to go on to claim a 15th Major he would have achieved a similar feat and he admits, much like Federer, he has had to alter his game due to injury and age.
"As you get older, you change your game and you do things slightly differently and he did that," he said.
"I'm not going to be hitting balls like some of these guys, 340 out there. I watched Dustin (Johnson) carry a ball last week when it was cold, wet and damp and he carried it 335.
"Jason (Day) and I just looked at each other going, "We don't have that".
"So you do it differently. If you look at the list of guys who have shot below 60, you realise Jim Furyk's on there twice. He averages 270 off the tee, shoots two rounds under 60. So it can be done different ways.
"The simplest thing is I just play away from pain. That's it. Whether my swing looks classical, rhythmical or it may look unorthodox, I don't care. As long as I don't feel that nerve pain."
After claiming two wins here in 2006 and 2008, Woods knows what it takes to conquer Emirates Golf Club and he is expecting a tough test should the expected high winds arrive.
"It's going to be tough if it gets windy," he said. "It's going to be tough to hit the fairways and these greens will dry out pretty quickly. They are a little on the firm side already in certain spots. Other spots are on the softer side.
"But if we get the winds that we're supposed to get then these greens are going to get quick, hard and fast and it's going to be imperative to hit the ball in the fairway because you just can't spin the ball out of this rough."
