Harrison Endycott finds crucial late season form in Mississippi
Harrison Endycott – file photo Bruce Young
Sydney golfer Harrison Endycott entered this week’s Sanderson Farms Championship in Jackson Mississippi knowing he needed something special in the remaining PGA Tour events he had access to this season if he was to retain his playing privileges for next season.
Endycott has struggled for much of his rookie season on the PGA Tour and has in fact come off a run which has seen him miss his last five cuts in succession.
Beginning this week’s event Harrison was 131st on the FedEx Cup points table and if he is to regain his card for next season he needs to be inside the top 125.
Somehow, after such a difficult run of late Endycott, a member of the Australian Eisenhower Trophy winning team in 2016, put together an opening round of 67 and followed it up with a round of 65 today at the Country Club of Jackson to be tied in 2nd place and one shot off the lead held by American Ben Griffin in the US$8.2 million event.
While it is still early days yet, Endycott has improved to 100th in the standings from his opening 131st.
“Yeah, look, I’ve been putting in some really hard work over the last couple weeks, said the I think I was dead last in putting in Napa after Friday and it wasn’t like I was putting bad. It felt a lot closer than what it was. They just weren’t going in.
“When the coach rang me and said, what’s going on, I don’t know. Like they’re just not going in. So did some really good work over the last couple weeks. Swing feels great.
“Game has just been trending in the right spot, and it was nice to play well the last couple days.”
“It’s been really frustrating over the last few months, the last few tournaments leading into Wyndham. It just was not happening. So much was going wrong out there. I didn’t feel like I was doing 100 percent a great job off the golf course, too, and just results were kind of taking control of that.
“Having some time off after Wyndham really — didn’t change anything, but practiced a little bit smarter and just getting a little bit better with that has definitely helped.
“I definitely feel like it’s building in the right direction. I was playing some good golf with the guys and it was nice to take some money off some friends last week.
“It’s heading in the right direction, and I’m looking forward to tomorrow.”
