Andrew Novak Talks His Improving Performances on the PGA Tour

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00:00I had six events in the fall I wanted to like I made it a point I wanted to like be in contention

00:05like two of them and that's something that like going into this year I'm trying to

00:09like make sure I'm putting myself in contention just because I felt like it's something I needed

00:15to do to get more comfortable being around the lead. I was able to do that last fall which I

00:22think was big for this year to get me comfortable for being like with being up near lead. I think

00:29my Saturday scoring has like greatly improved in the last I was always like a terrible Saturday

00:35player for whatever reason. Yeah well because a lot of a lot of guys when they get to Saturday it's

00:40finally we're playing with house money we're not playing threesomes we're playing twosomes you're a

00:45quick player you like getting going I'm a little surprised that Saturday's been tough on you.

00:50Yeah so this year has by far been my best Saturday performance I've always been like a poor Saturday

00:54player but a pretty good Sunday player and so I like you know I'll come into the weekend kind of

00:59drop a bit and then Sunday make like a little move up and that's what I was doing a lot to like finish

01:03top 20s but you have to have good Saturdays if you want to finish like top five because you got to be

01:08you got to be up there. And actually there's a good point you bring up about the twosomes because

01:14there's been like a lot of talk like how many final groups I've been in recently.

01:19Uh the best I've played by far was the heritage that's the only final group that I've been in

01:26that was actually twosomes. All of the other ones were threesomes and if you remember

01:30Torrey Pines the pace was brutal it was so bad and that like I was struggling with that and then

01:38same thing at Valero like I was you know playing in threes. That was a death march. Yeah I'm you know

01:45Brian's not like the fastest player and yeah he had the lead and so he was really you know making

01:51sure what he was doing was what he wanted to do and the wind was right where he wanted it to be

01:56and stuff and I was not really handling it great I don't think. So it was really nice at Heritage to

02:03be playing in twos which was a lot more my speed where we were just getting up and going and it's the

02:10same thing an alternate shot like you're playing in foursomes but it's only two balls like we played

02:14you know in four hours basically. Right. And um I would say like that is definitely an advantage

02:21for me to be able to play at that pace. Yeah I want to go back to the original thing you just

02:25talked about talking about how you wanted to play your way into contention well of course easier said

02:31than done right like everybody says like I would love to be in contention would love to be in final

02:35groups um and of course you had this quiet confidence because you look at your analytics your stats

02:40and you're like I'm playing good golf uh but other than you know you know not being in a twosome

02:47whatever it is was there something that you flipped on on the on a Saturday that you think maybe could

02:53have been the difference was it more of an aggressive mindset uh did you like is there anything that you

02:58feel like you did differently I guess on the weekend? Not like nothing major but it just like a conscious

03:05effort in my brain to just like I want to be putting myself up in these positions like you talked

03:11about like sometimes you know you can get to the weekend get a little bit complacent like hey we made

03:15our cut and based on what I was like seeing from last year like my Saturday scoring was not good

03:21and that was I was having good tournaments but that was essentially costing me chances to win yeah

03:27so it's been like kind of a conscious effort like once I make the cut it's like that's not just

03:33the end of it like we're gonna keep pushing I have 36 holes to chase down the leaders basically from

03:41whatever position I'm in um I don't like I mean the fact that I'm thinking about it and it's working

03:50I don't know if there's like a correlation there but like it's definitely something that I've wanted to

03:55like it was definitely something that I wanted to allow myself to do because like I think every level

04:03I've played at it's taken me a bit of time to get comfortable um to gain confidence playing

04:10against whoever I'm playing against and I figured the next step for me was to be putting myself in

04:16contention because I knew like like I mean you know it could happen like the first time you put

04:22yourself in contention you win but that's not really how I've been at each level like in college

04:27I didn't really get going I didn't win until my junior year like it took me some time to like

04:31figure it out so I wanted to like really put myself in some positions because I know

04:36when I do I'll get better as as it goes but I need to start giving myself those those chances to learn

04:43about myself in those positions um and then obviously I've done that and now it finally pays off

04:50for the win um last week

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