Billy Horschel is already at Le Golf National for the Open de France after missing the cut at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship.
Horschel headed to Scotland for the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship in superb form, having just won the BMW PGA Championship.
He battled it out in a play-off with four-time major champion Rory McIlroy in Wentworth, with Horschel becoming the first American to win the BMW PGA Championship twice.
The 37-year-old also won the iconic tournament in 2021, but came crashing back down to earth at St Andrews.
Horschel was on 10 under with seven holes to go before the cut was made, but he bogeyed his 12th and 13th holes before carding five successive birdies to miss out.
Billy Horschel annoyed by his pre-shot routine after missing Alfred Dunhill cut
It represents his first missed cut since the Scottish Open, with Horschel now keen to bounce back at the next DP World Tour event.
Le Golf National hosts the Open de France this week, with the American talking through his pre-shot routine with the DP World Tour on X.
“So my normal pre-shot routine over the ball for many years has just been a little halfway, go about halfway back, check to make sure that the club’s outside my hands the way I want,” he said.
“Somewhere… it may have started in 2023, I started making a full backswing, you know going to halfway then making a full backswing afterwards, where I wanted the club and feel how I loaded my hip.
“I just kept doing it, I don’t like it, I want to only do the half one, but for right now the way I have to feel it, I have to feel like… sometimes I have to make a fuller backswing to feel like the club stays outside my hands, the club stays in front of my chest on the way back and I feel like I unload with my right leg.
“So yeah, it annoys me at times, but it’s been working so I haven’t been too much in a worry or in a hurry to try and change it.”
Billy Horschel grouped with PIF chief Yasir Al-Rumayyan at Alfred Dunhill
The American was certainly under the spotlight at St Andrews, with Horschel grouped with PIF chief Yasir Al-Rumayyan.
Al-Rumayyan’s appearance coincided with PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan’s, with the duo both in action in Scotland.
It remains to be seen what was discussed between the parties at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship, with LIV Golf and the PGA Tour still not seeing eye-to-eye.
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The divide between the two tours dates back to 2022, with LIV Golf forming and taking many PGA Tour players with it.
Many top stars clearly want a reunion as soon as possible, but it is uncertain when that will happen, if indeed it ever does.
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