Rory McIlroy is desperate to end 2016 in style by impressing at the WGC-HSBC Champions in Shanghai this week.
But the PGA Tour's newly-crowned FedEx Cup champion will have to conquer all four of the year's first-time major winners and 40 of the world's top 50 players if he is to win the title for the first time.
"I'd love to tick that one off," McIlroy said. "I've won in Hong Kong before. I've won in Shanghai but it wasn't an officially sanctioned event at the time [the Shanghai Masters in 2011].
"I'd love to win in China again and I've played well enough on this golf course to win but just haven't really done enough when it mattered. Hopefully this year will be the year to change that."
The good news for McIlroy is that he appears finally to have put his injury-wracked 2015 behind him after a freak injury playing football denied him a shot at defending his title at The Open.
His bad luck continued in Shanghai last year when he was floored by a dodgy snack and severe food poisoning which meant he could not practise.
"I've avoided the club sandwich this week," joked McIlroy. "The aim is to get out of China in one piece. I'm taking every precaution to be in good shape."
McIlroy still went on to win the Race to Dubai and it seemed his game had turned the corner, more so when he won the Irish Open in May, only for him to miss the cut in the US Open and US PGA championship.
With his putting on the mend, he stormed to two wins in four events - the Deutsche Bank Championship and season-ending Tour Championship - and a $10m bonus.
"After the FedEx Cup and the Ryder Cup I wanted to take some time off as it was a busy stretch of golf," added the former world No 1.
"I went to Dubai last week for a few days to practice and the game's feeling really good and I'm really happy with where I'm at.
"I'd love to do the double [FedEx Cup and Race to Dubai]. There's a lot of ground to make up but that's nothing a couple of wins wouldn't fix."
Watch the WGC-HSBC Champions throughout the week live on Sky Sports 4 - your home of golf. Coverage begins on Thursday from 4am.