Former Open Champion and World No. 1 David Duval confessed all he has is ‘tomorrow’ as he looks to regain full PGA Tour playing rights.

Duval posted a four under par 68 on day one of the Zurich Classic of New Orleans in just his fourth event this year and first tournament in a month to be trailing four shots behind clubhouse leader and fellow American Andrew Svoboda from Florida.

Svoboda equaled the TPC Avondale course record with an under par 64 to be one clear of Sweden’s Peter Hanson who capped his round by holing a 6-iron second shot for eagle at the par four sixth hole, and less than a week after grabbing a ninth hole-in-one of his career using the same club to ace the par three, 17th at his Lake Nona club in Orlando.

Duval, 41 has won 13 times on the PGA Tour but not since his success in 2001 at Royal Lytham and St. Annes.

Former Open Champion and World No. 1 David Duval shoots 68 on opening day of Zurich Classic of New Orleans.

“I feel I am playing well enough to win golf tournaments but the challenge, again, is I’ve played very few tournaments,” he said.

“I feel confident in saying that I can hit a two, three, four-week stretch where I know I am playing next week and the week after where I could settle myself down that much more.

“Teeing off here, having not played in a month and knowing that I’m not, as of right now, putting aside, I could change things by playing well to get into the top-10 or something like I’m not in a golf tournament now until Memphis.

“And that’s why when I was asked straight after my round what does it do for me the next three days?

“Well, frankly, it doesn’t do a whole lot, because my challenge is not to get ahead of myself.

“So again, all I truly have is – I don’t have next week.  I have tomorrow now and that’s all I have.”

Duval’s round was a bogey free display of four birdies.