Knox Looking To Roll The ‘Snow Ball’ All The Way To His Best Season.

After his best New Year start in four years, Russell Knox is determined to ‘roll the snowball’ all the way to a hopeful best season in this his 15th year in the pro ranks.

Knox produced four rounds in the 60s, including a Hawaiian last day 65 to share to seventh place in the Sony Open on the island of Oahu.

It was the Scot’s best finish in the event that he’s played at the start of a New Year for the past four years and helped him pocket £stg 167,000 while he was also rewarded with a jump of 46 spots to World No. 255.

Afer a best finish at the start of a New Year in four years, Russell Knox looking to roll the snowball to his best season on Tour

Knox, 36, produced a bogey-free last day for a 65 and finish seven adrift of Masters champion Hideki Matsuyama, who pulled off the shot of the tournament at the first playoff hole, the par-5 18th, when he hit a 3-wood second shot into the setting sun to just three-feet to hole the eagle putt and deny hapless American Russell Henley who bogeyed the hole.

Knox, and chasing a first win since his play-off victory at Ballyliffin, was delighted with his efforts in a first event of the year.

He said: “It was four nice rounds and it’s one of my best finishes in a few years.  I played well all week.

“I have worked extremely hard this off-season, so the week has been a good reward to have a good tournament with a lot of positives in all areas of my game.

“This result just validates all the hard work I have put in over the past six weeks.”

Snow ball slides downhill and speeds up.

Knox also singled out the work with his coach Mark McCann, who’s been on his team for near-on 18 months

He said:  “Mark and I have built a strong relationship and it’s the most confident I have felt in my game in quite a few years now”.

Buoyed by his result, Knox is this week in Palm Springs, California looking to build on the Hawaiian effort in the American Express where he finished top-20 a year ago.

He said: “I just want to get back to where I feel as though I belong.  Whatever that is as I keep that to myself but the last couple of years, I just haven’t felt I have played like I should have.

“So, it’s nice to just get going here in Hawaii and maybe we can now start rolling the snowball and make it bigger as the year goes on”.

Knox’s best season is the wrap-around 2015/16 season when he won both the 2015 WGC – HSBC Champions and the 2016 Travelers Championship on his way to 10th in the FedEx Cup.



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