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Andrew Novak Talks His Improving Performances on the PGA Tour
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5/9/2025
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I had six events in the fall I wanted to like I made it a point I wanted to like be in contention
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like two of them and that's something that like going into this year I'm trying to
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like make sure I'm putting myself in contention just because I felt like it's something I needed
00:15
to do to get more comfortable being around the lead. I was able to do that last fall which I
00:22
think was big for this year to get me comfortable for being like with being up near lead. I think
00:29
my Saturday scoring has like greatly improved in the last I was always like a terrible Saturday
00:35
player for whatever reason. Yeah well because a lot of a lot of guys when they get to Saturday it's
00:40
finally we're playing with house money we're not playing threesomes we're playing twosomes you're a
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quick player you like getting going I'm a little surprised that Saturday's been tough on you.
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Yeah so this year has by far been my best Saturday performance I've always been like a poor Saturday
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player but a pretty good Sunday player and so I like you know I'll come into the weekend kind of
00:59
drop a bit and then Sunday make like a little move up and that's what I was doing a lot to like finish
01:03
top 20s but you have to have good Saturdays if you want to finish like top five because you got to be
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you got to be up there. And actually there's a good point you bring up about the twosomes because
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there's been like a lot of talk like how many final groups I've been in recently.
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Uh the best I've played by far was the heritage that's the only final group that I've been in
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that was actually twosomes. All of the other ones were threesomes and if you remember
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Torrey Pines the pace was brutal it was so bad and that like I was struggling with that and then
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same thing at Valero like I was you know playing in threes. That was a death march. Yeah I'm you know
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Brian's not like the fastest player and yeah he had the lead and so he was really you know making
01:51
sure what he was doing was what he wanted to do and the wind was right where he wanted it to be
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and stuff and I was not really handling it great I don't think. So it was really nice at Heritage to
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be playing in twos which was a lot more my speed where we were just getting up and going and it's the
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same thing an alternate shot like you're playing in foursomes but it's only two balls like we played
02:14
you know in four hours basically. Right. And um I would say like that is definitely an advantage
02:21
for me to be able to play at that pace. Yeah I want to go back to the original thing you just
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talked about talking about how you wanted to play your way into contention well of course easier said
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than done right like everybody says like I would love to be in contention would love to be in final
02:35
groups um and of course you had this quiet confidence because you look at your analytics your stats
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and you're like I'm playing good golf uh but other than you know you know not being in a twosome
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whatever it is was there something that you flipped on on the on a Saturday that you think maybe could
02:53
have been the difference was it more of an aggressive mindset uh did you like is there anything that you
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feel like you did differently I guess on the weekend? Not like nothing major but it just like a conscious
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effort in my brain to just like I want to be putting myself up in these positions like you talked
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about like sometimes you know you can get to the weekend get a little bit complacent like hey we made
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our cut and based on what I was like seeing from last year like my Saturday scoring was not good
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and that was I was having good tournaments but that was essentially costing me chances to win yeah
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so it's been like kind of a conscious effort like once I make the cut it's like that's not just
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the end of it like we're gonna keep pushing I have 36 holes to chase down the leaders basically from
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whatever position I'm in um I don't like I mean the fact that I'm thinking about it and it's working
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I don't know if there's like a correlation there but like it's definitely something that I've wanted to
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like it was definitely something that I wanted to allow myself to do because like I think every level
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I've played at it's taken me a bit of time to get comfortable um to gain confidence playing
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against whoever I'm playing against and I figured the next step for me was to be putting myself in
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contention because I knew like like I mean you know it could happen like the first time you put
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yourself in contention you win but that's not really how I've been at each level like in college
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I didn't really get going I didn't win until my junior year like it took me some time to like
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figure it out so I wanted to like really put myself in some positions because I know
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when I do I'll get better as as it goes but I need to start giving myself those those chances to learn
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about myself in those positions um and then obviously I've done that and now it finally pays off
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for the win um last week
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