Kenny Perry insists his Masters meltdown has made him hungrier than ever for a maiden major title.
Perry lost a three-way play-off at Augusta National in April having led the first major of the year by two shots with two holes to play.
Bogeys at the 17th and 18th in regulation play left Perry in a play-off with eventual winner Angel Cabrera of Argentina and fellow American Chad Campbell, and his hopes disappeared with another poor approach shot at the second extra hole.
But as Perry renews his bid to become the oldest major winner at the US Open at Bethpage Black on Thursday, the 48-year-old Kentuckian is determined to make amends.
'I'm very positive,' Perry said when asked about that fateful Sunday at the Masters. 'I enjoyed it, it was a good ride.
'I look forward to the opportunity to try to get in there again. It made me hungrier, basically.'
Perry, who also lost a play-off to Mark Brooks at the 1996 USPGA Championship at Valhalla in his home state, said he had learnt to deal with his share of setbacks in his 27 years as a professional.
'I've been down a few times,' Perry added. 'When I knocked it off that tree at Atlanta (in the 2008 AT&T Classic) and lost to Ryuji (Imada), and Paul (Azinger) comes out the next day and says, 'You've got to win to be on my Ryder Cup team', that was kind of a kick in the gut a little bit.
'It was like '96, I had that deal done too in the USPGA and I just did not quite finish it out.
'I know I can do it. It's just I've got to rethink it a little bit when I'm coming down the last couple of holes and not get ahead of myself.
'But I look forward to the challenge.'
