Duval Flourishes When It Gets Hard

David Duval embraces difficult tasks. It’s how he explains his outstanding performance last year in the U.S. Open at Bethpage Black, where he finished T2 behind Lucas Glover.

This week at the AT&T National Pro-Am follows the same pattern. On Thursday, Duval carved out a solid 67 at Spyglass Hill, the first time he’s ever broken 70 on that track. He backed it up with 70 Friday at Pebble Beach Golf Links and is among the leaders.

The U.S. Open, Duval said, “just pretty much felt right.

“Just comfortable and good,” he said. “You know, those weeks, to me, ironically, they’re a little bit easier to pay attention to what you’re doing because the golf courses are so difficult and the situations are so difficult that it’s real easy for me to focus on those weeks.

“I had been working myself to try to pay a little more attention to what I’m doing on the easier golf courses. I just think I hadn’t paid enough attention to targets and picking out my spots. It’s so imperative at the U.S. Opens and the big events like that where you’re playing massive golf courses that are really hard with high rough.

“You got to really figure out how you’re going around the golf course.
For some reason, that just makes me pay a little more attention.”

Duval is obviously paying very close attention this week.

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