Senden driven by Scott's Masters success Adam Scott's Masters mastery has given John Senden fresh belief his major championship moments are just around the corner. Senden broke his own Masters hoodoo by making his first cut at Augusta National in four starts and the confidence garnered from his efforts, plus fellow Queenslander Scott's triumph, have him primed. His win certainly inspires you. Firstly it just makes you feel good as an Aussie but secondly, for me, the important thing to take from it is the fact his hard work has paid off," said Senden as he prepared for his first post-Masters tournament in New Orleans this week. It makes me think if I stay patient with the process and working hard something good could happen and I think it's not that far away. The last five years have been my best in golf and watching that guy work on and away from the course you can't help but be impressed. I want to take those steps to the next level. I want to get some wins, not just in regular PGA Tour events or in Australia but in bigger events like a Players Championship or a Tour Championship or of course a major championship. It's time to step it up and make them count. Senden's start to 2013 has been a little scratchy by his standards, the result of an illness and some niggling minor injuries that affected his usually fluid and precise swing. He's posted just one top 25 finish in 2013 after averaging 4.25 top 10s in the last four seasons. After being inside the world top 50 since his runner-up finish at the 2011 Australian Open, Senden slipped outside and is now 52nd. And after sitting among the best ball-strikers in the US tour statistics for nearly eight years Senden sits tied 107th this season. But a solid week of work at his home base in Dallas with coach Ian Triggs has the 42-year-old back in sync. "We ironed out a fair few things and I needed it to move forward with my confidence in my ball striking," Senden said. When your body has a few niggles, like I did, you compensate and those compensations were hurting me. All of the sudden the hands were coming into play and for me it's best when the body rotates and the hands follow, not the other way around. With the work we have done together combined with some rest, I feel like I am ready to get stuck into a nice run. Aaron Baddeley, Stuart Appleby, Robert Allenby, Rod Pampling, Cameron Percy, Matt Jones, Scott Gardiner, Alistair Presnell, Steven Bowditch and Greg Chalmers join Senden in the field at TPC Louisiana.