Lee Westwood is determined to eradicate "silly scores" as he bids to end his long title drought at this week's Turkish Airlines Open.
The 40-year-old has not tasted victory this year after relocating to Florida at the start of the season to play full-time on the PGA Tour.
Westwood has made vast improvements to his short game, but he admits that careless mistakes have cost him the chance to add to his career tally of 40 victories worldwide.
He finished a distant 23 shots behind Dustin Johnson at last week's WGC-HSBC Champions in Shanghai, and he admits his form has been blighted by lapses in concentration.
"I always try and look at my form on how many birdies I'm making," said Westwood, who has slipped to 23rd in the world rankings.
"I'm making a lot of birdies but I'm also making some silly scores, a triple-bogey and a couple of double-bogeys, and I made a few silly bogeys on easy holes last week."
This week's event is the penultimate tournament in the European Tour's Final Series, with Henrik Stenson currently leading the Race to Dubai standings Graeme McDowell, Justin Rose and Ian Poulter.
Westwood topped the Order of Merit in 2000 and 2009, and he knows what it takes to be crowned European No 1.
"It's consistency... you really have to play well the full year," he added.
"In 2000 I think I won something like six or seven events that year. You don't need to do that now, you can almost win the money list without winning an event because there's a big difference in the size of the purses."
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