Houston Open winner Hunter Mahan said he was strong mentally in Texas, which holds him in good stead ahead of this week's Masters.
Mahan edged the tournament at Redstone Golf Club by one stroke from Carl Pettersson on Sunday to become the only two-time PGA Tour winner this season.
The 39-year-old Mahan said he is well poised to improve on his personal best effort at Augusta - tied for eighth in 2010 - when play tees off on Thursday.
"The game feels good. I feel very capable of playing great golf, and I feel like I showed myself I don't have to be perfect to win. You know, I felt like this week my mind was probably the strongest part of my game. That's a great thing to feel for sure," Mahan said.
"When you play a major, you're going to have to have all facets of the game, especially your mind has to be a strength. That's what I'm going to take from this week is that my mind was so strong, I was able to kind of persevere through some, you know, having the lead and doing something I haven't done before."
Mahan's caddy was overheard telling him that he was the 'best driver of the golf ball in the world' moments before teeing off on the 18th hole on Sunday - a comment which Mahan himself was all too happy to hear.
"That's the time where you got to pick your target and make a golf swing. It's not a time to kind of bail out or hope you hit it good. You just got to step up there and make a good golf swing," he said.
"There's moments in competitive golf where there it is in front of you, you got to do it. It's one of those moments you got to be aggressive with your target and make an aggressive swing. That's what I did, and that's what I was thinking on the tee and just spoke it."
Three-time Masters champion Phil Mickelson finished tied for fourth in Houston, four shots behind Mahan, and the 41-year-old said he was busy preparing for the year's first major tournament last week.
"I spent Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday this week (last week) at Augusta. Spent a lot of time on the greens, and I know that golf course pretty well, where I want to be and the shots that I'll have when I'm in the proper spot, and I feel like I don't have to be perfect there," Mickelson said.
"I feel like I can get up and down and let my short game salvage a stroke if I need to. Right now the way that I feel like I'm striking the ball well enough that I can play it pretty good next week."
Mickelson said he is approaching the Masters confidently, after a strong showing in Texas, despite admitting he failed to leave his ball handy enough on the greens.
"I'm confident because of the way these last couple weeks have gone. I've steadily progressed at Bay Hill after hitting loose shots. (I) played much better this week, didn't really have but one penalty stroke on a golf course here that has water everywhere. I was excited with my ball striking," he said.
"I put forth the hard effort to try to defend. (I) wasn't able to make a good run on the weekend. I played well and hit a lot of good shots. I had some good momentum for next week and walk away from this week feeling really good about where my game is headed.
"That was really the difference (between winning and losing). I didn't hit my irons as close as I needed to make a good run. The course was much more difficult today, given that we had more wind and the pins were tucked. If I had hit good solid shots, I could have made some putts and I just didn't capitalize on a lot of opportunities to make a move."