Richard Mansell is desperate to feel like he wins again when he first took over as the DP World Tour champion of the Heroes India Open.
The Briton won the final bird at last week's Singapore Classic, winning his first DP World Tour title at the start of his 103rd time, but he had no intention of resting.
Mansell admits that sometimes he thinks the victory will never come, but after seeing peers and friends Ewen Ferguson and Calum Hill become multiple DP World Tour champions, he is eager to focus on the mission of the DLF Golf and Country Club.
“No one warned you how exhausting your victory is,” Mansell said, whose victory made him the ranking of Asian swing teams in four games.
“It’s a lot of emotions. Years of hard work, finally getting it done and having some family and friends there is really cool, so now we’re moving to India.
“I had a cycle that didn’t happen every week I was thinking about this and you can’t do that in this game. It’s really hard to win, and all you have to do is try to do the right thing, give yourself a chance, and then you can’t guarantee it.
“I had a chance to open the putt and manage to do that. Now that you get the feeling, you’ve been waiting for a long time, you want it, you can see people want it again. I’m straight and I thought, ‘I want to do it again’.
“EWBO has three wins – his win at Galgorm I was close, entered the back nine and fell.
“It was such a cool motivation to see Calum win two weeks ago and run on the green.
“I feel like I’ve been playing with some good stuff for a while and I’ve been doing the right stuff and I just have to be patient, so it feels cool.”
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Mansell recently started working with experienced caddie Caddy Dave Kenny.
Mansell, who is only 29 years old, has more ambitions in the game and has won his first win in his first game, and he feels experienced caddies and he feels ready to achieve them.
“I’ve been achieving very big goals in the game and recreating confidence is very important, and last week it made Dave a huge and huge help,” he said.
“I’m very excited about what we can do together. But, I’m not trying to move on anytime soon, I want to enjoy the moment.
“I know this week was really tricky, we already had a tough golf course, hot temperatures, and the win was exhausting, it really set me apart, but I played some good golf. I still have a week of preparation, I can do some preparation, I can try to win another golf game, and then I got five weeks of celebration.
“There is still a lot of golf to play this year, and I’m looking forward to it.
The next step will be another good week, which will bring him closer to winning the Asian swing and passing the rankings to one of three positions available at the US PGA Championship.
DLF G&CC is both cruel and beautiful, but Mansell expects to do a tough test.
“I played last year and it was special,” he said. “There are some amazing holes, no blades with a blade, and you can see how much effort it took.
“I think it's a golf course and you need to have some confidence because if you don't do that, you don't want to put it into practice. I don't have a big difference between 70 and 80, you can add numbers here, so it's important to stay here and concentrate here, which is tricky for extreme weather.”
