I am really excited about things at the moment. The Dubai World Championship is my last tournament of the year and I am looking forward to having some downtime to practise my golf with Sean Foley, my new coach, to working on my fitness and to Christmas. Fifteen relatives are coming from South Africa to our new house in Lake Nona, in Orlando, Florida. It will be great.
This has been a year of two halves. By the time I got to the US Open [in June] I was struggling and decided to change my coach from Nick Bradley to Sean. With such a change, you become excited and enthused and in the time since I have noticed some big improvements in my game. I have missed only one cut and that by one shot. I feel I am finishing strongly on Sundays. I have a last-round average score of 69.21, the third lowest on the tour.
I have had two chances to win lately. Greensboro [the Wyndham Championship] was the best ball-striking week I have had. I hit 67 out of 72 greens in regulation and I had 31 putts a day to shoot 14 under. That was the week I should have whipped the field.
Last week [at the Children’s Miracle Network Classic] was another really good chance to win. I finished one back but made progress the whole week. I shot 65, 69, 69, 68. Good stuff. I really hope I have brought this form with me to the desert this week.


