I’m certainly not making this easy on myself. I was 124th going into the Wyndham Championship, with only the top-125 making it into the first FedEx Cup playoff event. Then the top-100 from the Barclays progress into this week’s Deutsche Bank and I’m 99th. I’m just about managing to survive out here. In some ways it feels like a kind of desperation. It’s sadistic and in a way I guess it’s fun, if you're into that! Personally, I prefer the pressure of being in the mix, but this is the situation I’ve got myself in. Giving it 100 per cent is the only way I know and I’ll keep fighting to get my game to the level I want it to be and that is competing and winning golf tournaments.

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