Marc Warren dismisses idea that he is scarred by near-misses since his last European Tour win

Marc Warren has dismissed the idea that he has been scarred by a number of tough near-misses since his last European Tour victory six years ago.

As low as 573rd in the world rankings in September 2011 after losing his European Tour card the previous season, Warren is now 99th and looking forward to more good performances in majors and the prospects of competing in the Ryder Cup over the Centenary Course at Gleneagles next year. "It would be huge normally to play in a Ryder Cup, but to play it in Scotland is every Scottish golfer's dream," Warren added. "But it's so far in the future that anything can happen between now and then. "I've totally changed how I look at golf now, I look at it more day-to-day and focus on controlling the little things I can control. "In a major it's easy to put pressure on yourself to be perfect and that's exactly what I did in the first round at Oak Hill after probably a few of the best practise rounds I've ever had. "On Friday I was determined just to go out and play golf and took confidence from that and played well the next two days as well. I've never really played as well as that in a major before. To finish one shot outside the top 10 I was really pleased. "The last couple of years I've consistently done pretty well on the European Tour level. To do it on the next level up is really satisfying, to know everything I am working on is obviously getting better and standing up to those type of pressures."