Richard Mansell is desperate to experience that winning feeling again as he tees it up for the first time as a DP World Tour champion at the Hero Indian Open.
The Englishman birdied the last at last week's Porsche Singapore Classic to win his maiden DP World Tour title on his 103rd start but he has no intention of resting on his laurels.
Mansell admits there were times he thought the win would never come but after being motivated by seeing peers and friends Ewen Ferguson and Calum Hill become multiple DP World Tour winners, he is eager to now focus on the task at hand at DLF Golf and Country Club.
“No one warns you how tiring winning is but in a good way,” said Mansell, whose victory took him to the top of the Rankings for the four-event Asian Swing.
“It's a lot of emotions. Years of hard work went into it and to finally get it done and have some family and friends there was really cool so now we move on to India.
“I got into a bit of a cycle where every week it didn't happen I was thinking about that and you cannot be that way in this game. It's really hard to win and all you've got to do is try and do the right stuff, give yourself opportunties and then there's no guarantee.
“I got an opportunity to hole a putt and managed to do it. Now you get that feeling and you've waited so long for it, you want it and you can see why people want it again. Straight away I was, 'I want to do this again'.
“Ewbo having three wins - and his win at Galgorm I was fairly close going into the back nine and fell away.
“Seeing Calum win two weeks ago and running on the green and seeing how cool that was was motivating.
“I felt like I've been playing some decent stuff for a while, I've been working at the right stuff and I just had to really stay patient, so it was a cool feeling.”
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Mansell has recently started working with experienced caddie Dave Kenny, who has five wins under his belt having carried the bag for the likes of Paul Lawrie and Stephen Gallacher.
At just 29, Mansell has plenty more ambitions in the game and with a first win under his belt and an experienced caddie he feels primed to set about achieving them.
“I've always had really really big goals in the game and recreating that self-belief was really important and getting Dave on the bag was a huge, huge help last week,” he said.
“I'm really excited as to what we can do together. But I'm not trying to move on really quickly, I want to enjoy the moment.
“I know this week is going to be really tricky, we've got a tough golf course, hot temperatures and it is tiring winning, it did take it out of me but I'm playing some good golf. I've got one more week to prepare as well as I can to try and win another golf tournament and then I've got five weeks off to really celebrate.
“There's a lot of golf left to play this year and I'm looking forward to it. Loads up for grabs and we'll see what we can do.”
The next step would be another good week which would take him a step closer to both winning the Asian Swing and sealing one of three places available at the US PGA Championship via the Rankings.
DLF G&CC is as brutal as it is beautiful, however, and Mansell is expecting a tough test.
“I played it last year, it's special,” he said. “There's some amazing holes, there's not a blade of grass out of place, you can see how much effort goes into the place.
“I think it's a golf course you need to have some confidence on because if you're not, you don't want to be teeing it up. I thnk the difference between 70 and 80 is not very much here, you can rack up numbers so it's important to stay present and focused out here which is tricky with the extreme weather.”
