Tiger-tamer Robert Rock is ready to roll again - after sleeping in his car when it was stuck in snow on the M25 last weekend.
"That brought me back down to earth pretty quick," said the man who beat Tiger Woods in Abu Dhabi a fortnight ago and this week goes head-to-head with Rory McIlroy at the Dubai Desert Classic.
Rock chose to take last week off following the biggest win of his life, but is now knuckling down to the task of putting himself on the world stage more often.
At 58th on the rankings the 34-year-old English golfer looks safe for a place in the 64-man Accenture world match play championship in Arizona later this month.
The field for that is determined this weekend, but Rock is also looking to be in the top 50 at the end of next month in order to celebrate his next birthday by making his debut at The Masters.
"I didn't think that would be in the pipeline in the next few years, but I've got the opportunity to play in a few big tournaments if I can keep up a decent run," he told reporters at the Emirates Club.
"As much as I was tempted to sit back and enjoy it for a bit more, I needed to get myself back and focus on my golf.
"I am a big believer in momentum. In my starting years I would have one good tournament and the next one would be a good way down the road.
"I never built on it, I never had two or three good weeks in a row. To make the most out of your game you need to have those good stretches of three to four weeks.
"You've got to roll with the momentum, you got to capitalise on it and make it work for you. And I think I have started to do that in the last couple of years.
"Two weeks ago I didn't even think the Match Play, Doral (the season's second world championship on March 8-11) and The Masters
were on the cards.
"I booked weeks off, so the schedule has changed and the practice routine has changed a bit too. I am very excited.
"It's massively overwhelming. I'm just a normal golfer who's done something that's attracted attention. I have Tiger Woods to thank for that - I owe him a beer."
As well as getting the better of Woods when they played together for the first time, Rock beat the world's top four in Luke Donald, McIlroy, Lee Westwood and Martin Kaymer.
Of that quartet only Donald is not present in Dubai, so once again there are a huge amount of world ranking points - and Ryder Cup points - on offer.
McIlroy is back at the scene of his first professional victory three years ago. He was 39th in the world then, but now has only Donald ahead of him and already has something Donald craves - a major title.
Since the USPGA Championship last August McIlroy has only once finished outside the top four in seven ranking events - and that was 11th in the Dubai World Championship when he was suffering from suspected Dengue fever.
He was runner-up to Rock in Abu Dhabi and would have won but for the two-shot penalty he was given for brushing away sand off the green during his second round.
"To score the way I did was nice because there were a few things I wasn't happy with," he said.
"I didn't drive the ball particularly well and I concentrated on that here last week.
"There's still a couple of loose ones in the bag, but I'm definitely making progress."
Westwood has come 17th and 12th the last two weeks and will be expected to maintain that improvement on a course where he lost a play-off to Miguel Angel Jimenez two years ago.
