"Hopefully it's another week like last year and I'm back with the trophy."
Smith, who has been in England "for a few weeks", comes into The Open in decent form, having won the most recent LIV Golf event at Centurion Golf Club.
And while he says he's still as much in the dark as anyone about how the proposed merger between LIV Golf's funders - Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund - and the PGA Tour will develop, he's keen to keep his focus on the golf.
"LIV aside, I'm determined to try my best every week and just try and be a better golfer than I was last week," he said.
"I think as a golfer, I think I'm actually a better golfer now than I was last year.
"But I've never tried too much to worry about what people thought of me and I think LIV was really well received in Australia.
"They were probably the two most important things to me. I think when I went down to Australia to play the PGA and the Open, at the end of the year there was no public kind of uproar of me switching tours.
"They were just happy to see me there playing golf. That was awesome."
Asked if becoming a major champion had changed him in any way, he replied with a smile: "I think the person is the same. I think my old boy would give me a clip around the ears if I was any different."
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