Billy Horschel only ever needs to see a faint glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel.
While some players require a slow ascent from missed cuts to contending on the weekend, Horschel’s switches between the two can often be drastic. Last year he missed three straight cuts before defeating Jason Day in a playoff to win the AT&T Byron Nelson, a turnaround that Horschel said “still shocks me to this day.”
The veteran is at it again, having missed five of six cuts prior to last week’s RBC Heritage. But a few tweaks quickly produced results, as Horschel tied for fifth at Harbour Town. He wasted no time in building on that momentum with a bogey-free, 4-under 68 to open the Valero Texas Open that left him one shot behind Grayson Murray.
“I’m a big momentum player. I’ve got to get the train moving forward,” Horschel told reporters Thursday. “I’ve always been a guy who gets on a little roll, get that train moving and jump into the winner’s circle. So yeah, it would have been great to win last week, but it was just nice to play four really good rounds of golf.”
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Many big names tend to skip this week’s stop at TPC San Antonio, but Horschel has managed to thrive on the difficult layout in recent years. He finished third in both 2013 and 2015, and tied for fourth in 2016.
With a return next week to the Zurich Classic of New Orleans where he notched his first career win in 2013 and a title defense in Dallas on the horizon, Horschel believes he’s turning things around at just the right time.
“Gets the momentum going, carry it into this week, next week, which I’ve had a lot of success at,” Horschel said. “Really the rest of the year, from here on in I have a lot of really good events I’ve played well in.”
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