{"id":1676305,"date":"2021-06-11T07:46:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T07:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africannewsagency.com\/south-africa\/van-rooyen-regains-form-with-six-under-65-at-palmetto-championship-42172a72-bc67-4714-bec1-908ca95b8719\/"},"modified":"2021-06-11T07:46:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T07:46:00","slug":"van-rooyen-regains-form-with-six-under-65-at-palmetto-championship-42172a72-bc67-4714-bec1-908ca95b8719","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africannewsagency.com\/south-africa\/van-rooyen-regains-form-with-six-under-65-at-palmetto-championship-42172a72-bc67-4714-bec1-908ca95b8719\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Rooyen regains form with six-under 65 at Palmetto Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Van Rooyen finds form with 65 at Palmetto Championship<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"article-body-image-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.syndication.prod.inl.infomaker.io\/?uuid=00c9a70c-0e86-5cc6-9e1b-10e564f6c2f3&amp;function=np_crop&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;q=75&amp;width=960&amp;height=540&amp;x=1&amp;y=1&amp;z=0.5\" alt=\"Erik van Rooyen in action\" style=\"width:100%\"><figcaption>Erik van Rooyen in action. Picture credit: Sunshine Tour<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, June 11 (ANA) &#8211; After his tee-slamming meltdown in the full glare of television coverage, Erik van Rooyen took some time off and it paid real dividends on Thursday as he carded a six-under-par 65, in the opening round of the PGA Tour\u2019s Palmetto Championship at Congaree Golf Club, Ridgeland, South Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>He made seven birdies and one bogey to join Dustin Johnson, Doc Redman and Chesson Hadley one shot behind the seven-under posted by Wesley Roach, and he credited at least some of that good form to the time he took after the PGA Championship where he was caught on television shredding a tee-marker on the 17th\u00a0after a poor shot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first week I did nothing. Tried to switch off social media because it was pretty hectic and probably deservedly so,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI took some time off to reflect and think about, not only what I did, but also just how I want to be a better golfer. I was at home for a week and then went up to Minnesota to visit the in-laws and I just, I played golf every single day and just put a lot of reps in. And before you know it you start putting well, you start hitting it well and things kind of come together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He started his round on the 10th, and he made four birdies ahead of the turn on 12, 13, 15 and 16. He picked up three more on two, three and five, and then he made bogey on the par-four sixth after he pushed his tee-shot into the right rough, hit it out to a waste bunker 30 yards from the hole, and was unable to get up and down from there.<\/p>\n<p>He suggested that his meltdown was probably the point of reflection he needed to turn his game around.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m really not prone to doing stuff like that, it\u2019s not the way I was taught by my parents,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBreaking clubs or simply slamming clubs was really frowned upon, at least where I\u2019m from. And then to go and do something like that was quite out of character for me. I was embarrassed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd for me it was really sort of a cherry on the cake with regards to the levels of frustration I went through. And that\u2019s not an excuse I\u2019m trying to make, but when you get to that kind of point it kind of wakes you up and it kind of shakes you a little bit. So, again, I shouldn\u2019t have done it, but in hindsight maybe that\u2019s kind of the switch I needed.\u201d &#8211; African News Agency (ANA), Editing by Michael Sherman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Rooyen finds form with 65 at Palmetto Championship<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":1676306,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[361,373],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Van Rooyen regains form with six-under 65 at Palmetto Championship | African News Agency<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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