The man with the green jacket is ready to embrace a red, white and blue summer.
After taking his seat in Centre Court to see Andy Murray at work at Wimbledon and then being track-side at Silverstone to witness Lewis Hamilton take the chequered flag in the British Grand Prix, Masters champion Danny Willett will carry home hopes at The Open and then at the Olympics a few weeks either.
Neither the expectation of being one of the favourites to lift the Claret Jug on Sunday, nor avoiding mosquitoes and trying to win gold for his country in Rio as one of the highest-ranked players left in the Olympic field, will be a burden to the Yorkshireman.
As far as The Open is concerned, Willett doesn’t believe the pressure on him has significantly increased on the back of what he accomplished at Augusta in April.
“It’s a little bit similar,” he said. “You know you’ve done it and played well and competed and won against the best guys.
“It’s a tough one now to make sure that you get back to the place where you were before you actually won and try not to have too much expectation on you every time you go out.
“Otherwise it’s a pretty lonely game when things aren’t going your way and you struggle a little bit because all you will be doing is reminiscing about how well you played a few months ago.
“We’re trying to get our head on and work hard to make sure we keep ticking the boxes like we’ve done for the last two years and then hopefully on Thursday morning we’re ready to go.
”Being British, this is the one you want to get your hands on. To come here as a major champion and have the crowds with us will be really, really special.”
Willett finish tied-sixth at St Andrews last year and cited the close-up view of winner Zach Johnson’s final round as a significant factor in his own major triumph nine months later.
He said: “Whenever you play with someone and see them win you look back and see how they did it.
“Did they do anything special? Is there anything you can take from it that you could change or do?
“The one thing that is impressive about Zach is he never changes his game plan for anyone, any golf course. Regardless of who he’s playing against he just does his own thing. He stayed incredibly patient that day, waited for a few good chances and took them.
“Just seeing how it unfolded and he played was good learning experience for me.”
Willett wasn’t on the hunt for selfies or hand-shakes off court or in the pit lane last week.
“I didn’t get to meet them (Murray and Hamilton),” he said. “They’re obviously very busy. In the same way I wouldn’t expect anyone to come up to me 20 minutes before I played golf and try to say ‘hello’. I didn’t want to disturb what they were doing.
“It was just great to go down there and see how they do their things.”
One of the reasons Willett is so keen to become an Olympian is to broaden his sporting horizons.
“We get caught up in our own little bubbles at times,” the world number nine, who has recovered from a couple of days’ illness, admitted.
“As golfers we travel the world together and play week to week. Very rarely do you get to see other people in their working environment.
“So it will be an opportunity to go and see Andy (Murray) train, go in the gym, maybe bump into countless number of people that you can watch train, see how hard they work, how they eat, how they rest up, how they recover, and ask questions. I can bring it back to how I get ready for tournaments and how I train.”
