Golf: Casey not feeling humble about his Masters chances

WORLD No.6 golfer Paul Casey believes he is ready to win a major and break a 14-year English drought.

Casey, 32, has returned to Humble, Texas, to defend his Shell Houston Open title, the event he won at Redstone Golf Club 12 months ago to give him his maiden victory on the PGA Tour.

With the Masters looming next week at Augusta National, Casey feels he is now at the stage of his career where golf's majors are next on his horizon and he can become the first Englishman since Nick Faldo at the 1996 Masters and the first European since Jose Maria Olazabal of Spain three years later, to pull on a Green Jacket.

"I'm older, greyer and yeah, I feel like the next eight, ten years, that's my big opportunity and, you know, it's been 1996 since the last time an Englishman won a major; '99 was the last time a European, Olazabal, won the Masters," said Casey. "I feel ready, yeah."