Golf showman Harrison Crowe is embracing the Masters hype and hysteria in an audacious bid to pull off a slice of golfing history.
Not content with merely making his maiden Masters appearance, Crowe wants to contend and maybe even become the first amateur to don the famous green jacket.
The Sydney sensation is fully aware that countryman Lucas Herbert missed the cut last year after making the similarly daring statement that he could win the Masters on debut, a feat not achieved since Fuzzy Zoeller in 1979.
But Crowe reckons he may as well not even tee off if he doesn't think he can win.
"You're setting the bar too low for yourself, I think, if you don't believe you can win," Crowe told AAP.
"And if you don't reach that level, you're falling a lot further than you really wanted.
"If you set the bar really high and you don't quite reach it, the more times you can surprise yourself by the outcome."
At the very least Crowe hopes to finish as the low amateur and inside the top 12 to earn an invite back next year.
With five tournament victories last year, including his breakthrough against the pros at the NSW Open, Crowe is accustomed to that winning feeling.
"My game's really, really good. Everything is falling exactly how me and (coach) Johnny (Serhan) wanted it to. It's in great shape," he said.
The 21-year-old spent last week honing his game in Florida, practising at TPC Sawgrass, having enjoyed a reconnaissance mission to Augusta National last month.
"I had four rounds. It was probably a really smart idea that I went over there when there were no patrons," Crowe said.
"I definitely got past all the 'wow factors' so when I get there I can focus. I'm probably still going to be like 'wow' when I get there and see all the patrons and the set ups.
"But playing the course with no patrons, you realise pretty quickly that it's just a golf course.
"So when I get there to play, I've just got to settle myself by telling myself it's just the same golf course that I played a few weeks ago.
"Then just play it the same way that I plan to play it and have it laid out."
He worked out his game plan with Serhan after using an experienced local caddy but will have countryman Cam Davis' bagman carrying his clubs during the tournament.
After claiming wide social media attention by boldly hitting a ball off the pavement outside a St Andrews pub to the 18th hole at the home of golf, it's no surprise that Crowe says he thrives in the limelight.
There's no greater spotlight in golf than at the Masters and Crowe plans on rolling with it.
"I relish it," he said.
"I'm not necessarily going to block it out, I'm going to take it all in and feed off it. Yeah, I just love being in those situations where there's a lot of people around.
"I feel like this is an opportunity to show myself."
Crowe is among five Australians in this year's field, joining big guns Cameron Smith, Jason Day, 2013 champion Adam Scott and Min Woo Lee.
He has already tapped into Scott's vast experience around the course after playing the first two rounds of the Australian Open in December with Australia's only Masters winner, and also hopes to also have a practice hit with Smith.
