Justin Rose looks to successfully defend a title for the first time in his professional career in the Zurich Classic of New Orleans, an event where he has an impressive recent record.
Former US Open champion Rose, who has not played since finishing tied for 10th in the Masters, has not been outside the top 15 on his last four outings at TPC Louisiana.
Since missing the cut in 2011, the 35-year-old Ryder Cup star has finished 10th, 15th, eighth before his one-shot win last year, with his last 16 rounds all at par or better.
"I know defending is difficult," Rose said. "I think obviously winning is difficult, so therefore defending is difficult just as a by-product of that.
"You almost have more chance of defending than you do winning because you're coming in on good memories, you're coming in on a course that you feel comfortable on.
"There are some things that you need to be careful of, expectation and maybe some other pulls on your time during the week that come with defending champion, but provided you can manage all of that stuff, I think that the rest is all upside and you can go ahead and try and feed off the good energy.
"But also you've got to realise that the course doesn't realise that you're defending champion. You need to go out there and build a whole new body of work around this week, so that's my goal."
World No 1 Jason Day is also in the field, as he aims to bounce back from a third round of 79 when tied for the lead in the RBC Heritage at Hilton Head in his last event.
"After the five weeks that I had on the road, by the Heritage week I was a little tired," Day explained. "On top of it, there were certain things that had kind of crept into my game, bad habits that, when you're playing a lot, you don't have time to work them out.
"Last week was a good week for me to get onto the range and chipping green, putting green, and really try and work some of those kinks out."
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