Casey Wittenberg enjoying the best season of his career
Casey Wittenberg has admitted that he never enjoyed as great a season as he is currently having on the Web.com Tour.
Wittenberg burst on the golfing scene with a tied 13th position as an amateur at the 2004 Masters Tournament. Since then, he failed to maintain consistency in his form and was considered an average player in each of the last eight seasons.
According to the 27-year-old American, he played different tours around the world. However, he started appreciating the sport of golf after joining the Web.com Tour.
In the 17 starts that he made in the 2012 Web.com Tour season so far, he recorded five top-10 finishes, including victories in the Chitimacha Louisiana Open and the Preferred Health Systems Wichita Open.
In addition to that, he ranks second in the FedExCup Playoffs, after earning $304,628 prize money and trails Luke List by about $4,500.
He stated that the biggest change that he made after starting his 2012 campaign was to start working with Adam Shriver, who also worked with Anthony Kim.
Since he started taking lessons from Shriver, his ball striking started getting better with the passage of time.
"I started working with Anthony Kim's teacher, Adam Shriver, and he's given me a little different philosophy and maybe a little different way of going about it," Wittenberg said. "I would say my consistency of my ball striking is pretty much been there all
year”.
Moreover, he gave credit to the Chitimacha Louisiana Open for his career’s best performance, as he posted rounds of 66-66-63-65 for a 24-under par tournament score.
"I would say Louisiana was one of my best weeks I ever had," Wittenberg said about the biggest victory of his pro career. "It was the best I struck the golf ball for four straight rounds. It definitely opened up my eyes and maybe it was a little earlier
than I expected but that was a very good week for me”.
Heading into this week’s Mylan Classic at the Southpointe Golf Club in Canonsburg, he is ranked second in scoring average at 69.53, which makes him one of the strongest contenders for a win in the tournament.
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