00:00And you got off to a pretty good start on the PGA Tour.
00:02I remember you getting in contention at San Diego in the Farmers Insurance Championship at Torrey Pines,
00:08which, of course, is a great ballpark for you.
00:10Someone where you can just go and absolutely send it around, take advantage of your length.
00:15Talk about the beginning of your year, all the way leading up until Mexico, where, of course, you had that close call.
00:20Yeah, I mean, I remember going from getting my PGA Tour card at the end of the cornferry season,
00:25coming back home, having some time off to practice a little bit.
00:30I had a really good tournament at the Ned Bank, came second, got almost in the playoffs.
00:35So that kind of gave me that confidence as well.
00:38Just that going home, getting that refresh, resetting the brain a little bit.
00:43And so, yeah, I was looking forward to going to the PGA Tour.
00:46Obviously, a lot more pressure with only 100 cards.
00:50I didn't know how my status was going to be because I know the first year cornferry guys
00:55didn't get into a lot of events.
00:57So there was a lot of stress around that.
00:59And I got in for Sony on an invite, not even on my status.
01:03So, yeah, it was pretty stressful at the start of the year.
01:06So once we had that good year, that good tournament at the start of the year,
01:12Torrey, it was kind of like, OK, we got some points.
01:15We're ahead of most of the guys.
01:16And we kind of just try to get that ball rolling.
01:19I think there was a reshuffle maybe a couple of weeks after Mexico.
01:23So after that week, I kind of knew I was going to be set to be in for most of the events
01:28for the rest of the year.
01:29So, yeah, it was good to kind of see myself getting in contention and kind of feel how
01:36guys played.
01:36And it was pretty cool to have that day on that Sunday at Torrey.
01:42It was a big day and it was pretty cold and a lot of emotions and a lot of things happened
01:47that day that I kind of took in and learned from.
01:50So it was good.
01:50Do you ever wake up in the middle of the night seeing the golf ball of Brian Campbell
01:55come out of the woods and reappear in balance?
01:59Does that ever bother you at a time?
02:01Because I remember watching it live thinking, what just happened?
02:04I can't imagine what was going through your head.
02:06Yeah, I mean, I'm looking back at the year and I'm very grateful for the win at Rocket.
02:12And a lot of the time I'm thinking of, OK, how great would it have been if I got two
02:16victories this year and where that would have put me on the FedEx and would I have gone
02:22into more of the elevated stuff for this year?
02:25And so you kind of think about it a little bit.
02:26But, I mean, that's golf.
02:28You're going to win some and you're going to lose some.
02:30So I was just grateful to get through those five holes, that five playoff holes at Rocket.
02:35So it was stressful enough to do that twice.
02:40I don't want to do that again.
02:41Maybe just win it on the seven-second hole, not five holes later.
02:45And you brought on Justin Parsons onto your team to help with your full swing.
02:49And I wanted to ask you about just the development you've received from Justin and from his coaching.
02:55First off, when did you hire Justin?
02:57Justin, as I've, of course, know, I mean, Justin has worked with a couple of different
03:02South Africans that have had tons of success with Louis Ustazen, Charles Schwartzel, and
03:07then Krista Lamprick, now another young South African working with Justin Parsons.
03:12Was it an easy phone call to make to bring on Justin, of course, with all the connections
03:17for Justin into the South African golf community?
03:21Yeah, I mean, I met Justin when I played at the Open at St. Andrews just after I won the
03:27British Amps.
03:28So he walked with me and Louis when we played a practice round.
03:31And I think he was kind of impressed to kind of see how I played, how my game looked.
03:36And I remember going to Corn Ferry and I was talking to my management team saying, hey,
03:41I maybe need someone out here to kind of, that I can maybe go see.
03:45Because it was kind of a dry season for me with the golf.
03:49I didn't feel like I played too bad, but I was just missing a lot of cuts and didn't get
03:53through and losing points, moving back on that, that, that ranking.
03:59So we were talking about it for the whole year.
04:02And I only saw him for the first time at Amex at the start of the year.
04:07So I saw him there for the first time.
04:10We started working.
04:11So basically it started last year is where, where we started the work.
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