The US golfer's season has been disrupted by a bizarre hand injury he sustained whilst cooking last Christmas but he is confident in his chances of winning a third Green Jacket at Augusta this week.

Scheffler told reporters: "I feel very prepared for this golf tournament. This is definitely the most prepared that I've felt all year."

The world number has won The Masters twice in the past three years but he insists that his past success is irrelevant when the opening major of the year begins on Thursday (10.04.25).

Scheffler said: "Last year means nothing. Let's say I get off to a bad start on Thursday, and I can use some stuff that I've done here the past few years as confidence to kind of turn things around. But at the end of the day, when I step on there on Thursday, we're at even par, and it's a totally new golf tournament."

Scheffler might not be winning as prolifically as he did last year but he is more reliant on "feel" to know if he is going to be successful around a golf course.

The two-time Masters champion said: "I lean more on my feel than the results a lot of the time. I think sometimes you can feel when you're really close and you can feel when you're pretty far off, and a lot of times it doesn't exactly align with the scores.

"Golf can be funny like that."