Rory McIlroy insists he must undergo a complete reset this week if his return to Hoylake is to be a victorious one.
McIlroy celebrated his Scottish Open triumph with a couple of glasses of red wine on Sunday night after travelling to Liverpool ahead of the 151st Open.
"Nothing too crazy," the 34-year-old smiled, before he was reminded that he was the first player to win the Irish Open, British Open and Scottish Open.
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"It's quite a nice stat, especially being from these parts. I've been playing the Scottish Open since 2005 as a 16-year-old, so it's taken me 18 years to get it done.
"It was nice to finally get that win on Scottish soil."
McIlroy's visit to Royal Liverpool today was his first since lifting the Claret Jug for the first and so far only time in 2014. Just a fortnight later he won the PGA Championship crown in Valhalla - that was his fourth major title and, remarkably, his most recent one.
Coming back to Hoylake, he hopes, will re-ignite that major winning feeling.
"It feels like such a long time ago so you're trying to rekindle the memories, but yeah, as I was driving from the airport actually last night and sort of getting onto the Wirral (it came back to me), and pulling in here today," he said.
"I haven't been here since 2014 so I'm trying to get those memories back again, trying to refamiliarize myself with the range and the clubhouse and the first tee and everything, it's all a bit spread out.
"But it's nice to come back. Anywhere you come back where you've had success it's always a nice feeling."
McIlroy caused a stir today when he cancelled his scheduled Tuesday press conference, a tactic he also used ahead of the US Open where he finished in second place behind Wyndham Clark.
However he did speak to The Open's own communication team as he practised on the driving range and he was asked what pleased him most about last week's success.
"Ball striking-wise I think I led the field in stats from tee to green," he reflected.
"I'm very happy with iron play, wedge play, controlling my flight, I'm really happy with how I played some shots in the wind yesterday, stuff that we might need this week.
"So I just think being in control of my ball flight, my swing, that was something that I was really pleased with last week."
However, McIlroy - who finished third for the second time in his career last year at St Andrews - explained that he has to put his magnificent birdie-birdie finish to pip Robert McIntyre behind him and go back to how he was playing at the start of the Scottish Open.
"It's a complete reset, basically. It's sort of getting back to the feels I had at the start of last week," he said.
"Once we got into the weekend in Scotland it got windy, swing thoughts, everything, just went out the window and you're just trying to get the ball around.
"So yeah, it's a reset, it's a new week. I'll try to forget about what happened, this is a new week and I've got a new goal and a new purpose and you go again.
"If I get myself into a similar position this week I will certainly draw on what I did last week but as of right now, I'm getting prepared for this tournament and all of that has to be put on the back burner and I just have to focus on getting ready to tee off on Thursday."
