(Reuters) – Former British Open champion Francesco Molinari understands the ebbs and flows of the sport in addition to anybody and the Italian mentioned on Wednesday forward of this week’s PGA Championship that he might lastly be poised for an additional upswing.
Molinari has one top-10 end on the PGA Tour this season however enters the 12 months’s second main coming off a share of seventeenth place finally week’s AT&T Byron Nelson and feels his sport from tee to inexperienced is extra constant than it has been in a while.
“It takes time to get the boldness again,” Molinari, who received the 2018 British Open, informed reporters.
“Last week was in all probability the most effective ball-striking of the 12 months for me … clearly it is solely a few days. It’s nonetheless early days. But hopefully it is a good signal for issues to come back.”
Since his near-miss on the 2019 Masters, the place he led by two pictures with seven holes to play, Molinari has endured a run of largely inconsistent outcomes.
But after relocating his household to California in 2020 and switching to a brand new swing coach, Molinari is lastly seeing indicators of progress even when his outcomes don’t but replicate that.
“I’m nonetheless, I believe, working my method by way of the modifications,” mentioned Molinari. “I’m now beginning to really feel extra settled within the new life, within the new actuality, and hopefully I can focus extra on golf and get again to enjoying some good golf.”
While Molinari is conserving his expectations in test going into Thursday’s opening spherical at Southern Hills, the Italian remains to be desirous to do what is required to take one other step in the suitable path.
“Obviously I’m coming from just a few months of not nice golf, so it is good to see some indicators of enchancment. I positively really feel like I’m transferring, trending in the suitable path,” mentioned Molinari.
“We’ll see. Sometimes these tournaments I believe it is virtually higher to indicate up not with nice expectations and simply play after which see what occurs day-to-day.”
(Reporting by Frank Pingue in Toronto; Editing by Toby Davis)