SPRINGFIELD: Reigning Masters champion Danny Willett wants to move beyond the excitement of winning his first major title and concentrate on recapturing his best form.
In April, the 28-year-old Englishman fired a final-round 67 at Augusta National to take advantage of a back-nine collapse by Jordan Spieth and take the green jacket from the American.
"It's time to move on a little bit from what we did," Willett said Tuesday.
"It was fantastic and yeah, it has changed my life, but we need to get back to the kind of form that we took into that week and hopefully then move forward."
Willett became the first British player in 20 years to win the Masters and this week hopes to become the first player since Jack Nicklaus in 1975 to capture the Masters and PGA Championship, the year's first and last majors, in the same season.
"The game is pretty good. Hopefully we are all set to try to compete again in the last major," he said.
Willett tees off Thursday at the 98th PGA Championship at Baltusrol alongside this year's other major winners, Sweden's Henrik Stenson from the British Open two weeks ago and American Dustin Johnson from last month's US Open.
"I think you'll see a lot more different champions. I think winning a Grand Slam these days is virtually impossible, and I think it has definitely proved that this year with the three different winners at the first three majors," Willett said.
"It just goes to show the strength and depth throughout golf at the moment. It just goes to show on a week-to-week basis that if anyone who is really there pitches up with their A Game, they have got a good chance of winning."
Willett has enjoyed his new-found fame as a major champion, wearing the green jacket at Wimbledon.
"I haven't worn it too much," Willett said. "The reaction has been great. You always get a few people wanting to have a look at it and stuff.
"Hopefully try and move on from that and try and get another couple of trophies under the belt. We've got a very important second half of the season coming up."
- Willett tries a new pitch -
Willett threw out the ceremonial first pitch at a New York Yankees' Major League Baseball game, but isn't looking to switch sports any time soon.
"It was a great day," he said. "Yankees baseball is steeped in history. The ground was awesome, and the way they treated us, and to be able to go out there in front of quite a few thousand people and not mess up too bad, was pretty good.
"Didn't hit somebody in the first row, so I think we did all right."
Willett said he likes the way the PGA of America selects a variety of courses, including this week's par-70, 7,462-yard layout, and lures the toughest field of any major.
"You get probably the strongest field in any of the majors because it's top 100 in the world and usually you get 99 or so of them playing," Willett said.
"And it's obviously quite unique in the way that they never go for a certain type of golf course.
"It's a tricky one because you never quite know what the score is going to be for the week, so you try to go out there and get a good game plan. If you finish anywhere near 6, 7, 8-under par, I think that would be a very good score for four rounds around this course."
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