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New Zealand golfer Mark Brown feels his game is coming back together after shooting a third round 66 in the Hong Kong Open today.
The Wellington player recorded six birdies in his round including three in succession from the 15th to finish his round just as the leaders
were starting out.
"It was good to get away from shooting 70 but I played good the first day and good today, and just managed to hole a couple of birdie putts there at the end of my round," Brown said.
Brown has been working with coach Mal Tongue before the Hong Kong event started.
Having Tongue oversee his game for the first time in a while has paid dividends particularly after Brown missed the cut in last week's Singapore Open.
"I played badly last week in Singapore but this week my game feels a little bit more on track," he said.
"I still have a lot of stuff to work on but it's all heading in the right direction.
"It's been good to have Mal here this week and at least I now have a decent plan of attack because the last few months I felt as though I was wondering around a bit lost.
"There wasn't much wrong with my game and really is was just that it needed some tuning."
Since winning two events earlier in the year including the prestigious Johnnie Walker Classic, Brown has struggled.
The biggest disappointment was on the Asian Tour where Brown saw hopes of being crowned 2008's Asian Tour No 1 dashed by India's Jeev Milka Singh.
"With Jeev winning last week in Singapore and sealing the Order of Merit in Asia it's taken much of the pressure of me in regards to winning the title," said Brown.
"It would have been very disappointing if Jeev had of just snuck by me in the last week of the schedule and won by about US$10,000 or US$20,000 but he's had a great year and after winning last week in Singapore he deserves the title.
"But I'm still leading the Australasian Tour Order of Merit and hopefully I can win that when I play the Australian Open next month in Sydney."
Brown next heads for a debut appearance at the World Cup where he will team up with David Smail. The tournament will be held at Mission Hills on the Chinese mainland an hour north of Hong Kong.
"I'm looking forward meeting up with David as there's not many opportunities in pro golf to represent your country.
"I haven't represented New Zealand since my amateur days and it's going to be unique and I feel that if we both play as well as we can we have a pretty good chance of succeeding."
- NZPA
