This season the 30-year-old has not got going after breaking up with his fianc?and withdrawing

This season the 30-year-old has not got going after breaking up with his fianc?and withdrawing from the final round of the Nissan Open with food poisoning. “Right now, I am still working on getting back to how I was swinging the club before the injuries,” he says. “I feel pretty good about my game but if you look at the scores, it doesn’t seem right. I think the main thing is that I need to start getting out of my own way, stop trying so hard, stop trying to force things and start having a little more fun. I hope getting back to Augusta will help.”He has proved he can raise his game at Augusta. “Friends have said, you’ve played so well there, you’re going to win this year.

I feel I have a good chance but it is a different year and each time you have to prepare properly and be ready to play well that week, make some putts and stuff. At the same time, after Lytham I showed up at the US PGA and felt like I had a little more swagger and felt that much better about my chances.”"Stoic” is usually the adjective associated with Duval. “If that means I’m an honest, forthright guy, I’ll stick with it,” he says. It is in keeping, then, that if Duval learnt anything from Lytham, it was that he was on the right lines all along. “I think there’s definitely a mental hurdle that has been crossed,” he says, “and a realisation of what it takes completely I thought I knew. I actually kind of proved to myself that I did know, that I was right.”. Hull gloriously ended their 10-year wait for a win at Wigan with a 20-18 triumph at the JJB Stadium on Friday night, and in the process left Stuart Raper’s men facing an early-season crisis.

Raper will not want to be reminded that Wigan finished fourth that year and sacked their coach. Perhaps their best hope of silverware is the Challenge Cup, but even victory over outsiders Castleford in the first semi-final at Headingley next Saturday will be no foregone conclusion on the evidence of last night’s performance.A try from stand-off Richard Horne seven minutes from the end enabled Hull to claim the victory which marked a breakthrough for Hull, who let slip promising positions at St Helens and Bradford recently and threatened to do the same when Wigan overturned a14-2 deficit to go 18-14 in front. Their coach, Shaun McRae, said: “When they got it to18-14, I thought jeez, is it going to be one of those days? Are we a 40-minute side?”I’ve got to say I think we’ve played better but we played well enough to win tonight. It was a great show of courage and desperation.”I’m obviously delighted with the two points but more so because it’s the first victory over Wigan away for 10 years. I’m proud that these guys were part of that because it’s changed the club history a little bit.”Horne played down his own role in the victory, giving the credit to the Hull pack. “It was a case of being in the right place at the right time,” he said.