Gavin Moynihan feels he has turned a corner as he gets ready for Le Vaudreuil Golf Challenge in France.
Although he who won the GolfSixes with compatriot Paul Dunne in May, the Irishman had a poor start to the season where he failed to make a cut across all his events on the European Challenge Tour and European Tour.
But with two successive top ten finishes on Europe’s top development tour – the 23 year old claimed a share of sixth at the SSE Scottish Hydro Challenge hosted by Macdonald Hotels and Resorts before shooting his lowest four rounds of the year at the Italian Challenge presented by Cashback World three weeks later – Moynihan is beginning to find form.
With six sub-70 rounds in his last eight, Moynihan believes his game is slowly coming together, and with a lot of golf still left to play this season the man from Dublin believes he can return to the top of his game soon.
“I’ve struggled a bit since getting my card for the European Tour at the end of Q-School last year,” he said. “I did well in Scotland a few weeks ago when I finished sixth and then had another top ten last week, so my game is getting there. It’s not fully there yet but it’s much better than it was three or four months ago.
“I probably tried a bit too hard at the start of the year. Now I’m just going for every event, if I miss a cut or win one I’m trying to treat them all the same, plus I’m trying to relax a bit more off the course.
“My putting has improved a bit as well, as it was holding me back at the start of the year, so it’s been a good last month.”
Moynihan, who impressed at the business end of 2017 with two top-ten finishes in four of the lucrative season-ending events, has a busy schedule planned for the coming months and is intent on ensuring he is in the mix by the time the Road to Ras Al Khaimah reaches Al Hamra Golf Club for the Ras Al Khaimah Challenge Tour Grand Final.
“I’m playing a lot during the next month,” he said. “I’ve got France this week then I’m going to play in the Porsche European Open on the European Tour, then Sweden the week after.
“It’s going to be a busy schedule no matter what tour you play, but I’m really looking forward to it.
“With the start I’ve had my aim would be to try and get in those last three events. I played them last year and I know the courses and I like them. If I can get myself to those events I think I’ll be in with a chance of having a good year. The goal is to get in the top 50 and then go for it in those events.”
