Q. Talk about your year overall.
PHIL TATAURANGI: I'm playing solid. I changed my off season. I dropped midway through last year what I was doing wrong. I've never gotten off to a good start all the years on tour. I was kind of looking forward to the off season midway through last year. What I was doing wrong was, I was going back to New Zealand, taking some time off and working with my coach about two weeks, a week or so before I would come back to play tournament golf. My game would need a little bit of work and we would do some mechanical changes in my swing, but I never got a chance to play rounds of golf with the changes I made to my swing, and I would come out and my swing wouldn't be in good enough shape to play and I would lose confidence. It would take me all over the west coast to get going.
Last year, as soon as I got through Q-School, I went straight home and worked with my coach for the next two weeks prior to Christmas, didn't take any time off, played with my friends and played rounds of golf, did a little bit of practice. Just played a lot of golf over the Christmas/New Year period and came to Hawaii feeling like I was ready to play tournament golf and I haven't taken a decent break all year, at the same time my schedule has only been like a couple of tournaments in a row, a week off, and a couple tournaments in a row. So I just feel like from the get-go my game and my swing was ready to play tournament golf. Mentally I was read to play, and I've just kind of been topping it out on my weeks off. It's been a big change around and seeing the fruits of it.
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