Fresh from a break at home in Melbourne, Geoff Ogilvy is ready to try and turn his poor form in the Open Championship around.

Ogilvy's Open record doesn't make for great reading, with the Australian missing seven cuts in the nine Opens he's played. He did have one good result - a fifth at St Andrews in 2005, and he'll be hoping for something even better at Royal Lytham and St Anne's Golf Club in England next week.

"It's weird to me," he said of his Open results, "because I played a lot of amateur golf around links courses and played really well.

"I feel like I should play well on links courses. Maybe it's no excuses, time to go do it, I suppose."

Ogilvy is coming off a four-week break, something he felt was necessar yto avoid the kind of fatigue he felt at the beginning of the year when he was coming off busy Christmas period.

"The game's in place and I'm pretty enthusiastic about the game and pretty fired up but I think sometimes when you take a few weeks off you can gain that extra level of whatever that thing is in your head when you're playing well, that relaxed confidence," said the 35-year-old.

Ogilvy was also asked about Tiger Woods' future major prospects and, while he believes Woods will win more majors, he does feel that there's a lot more unpredictability in the former world number one's game.

"He looks very impressive. He looks like Tiger Woods," said Ogilvy.

"Before when he got in that (US Open) mood and on top of the leaderboard at a major, 14 times he got on top of the leaderboard in a major and was never passed. I don't know if he's in that place any more but, wow, he's very close to the best player in the world at the moment, and the best player in the he world who's already won 14 majors.

"I don't think it'll be too suprising if he won one this year or if he started winning them this year or next. He's got his ducks in a row now."

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