Can Louis win another major?

In-form Oosthuizen has sights on PGA Championship

[caption id="attachment_95668" align="alignright" width="215"] CROWD FAVOURITE: Louis Oosthuizen hopes to win the green jacket. PICTURE: GETTY IMAGES[/caption]

STILL feeling emotionally bruised after losing out in a three-way playoff at last month’s British Open, Louis Oosthuizen relishes the prospect of another links-style challenge at this week’s PGA Championship.

The last time the year’s final major was staged at Whistling Straits, in 2010, Oosthuizen arrived at the venue fresh from a commanding sevenstroke victory at the British Open but he went on to miss the cut after two “very nervous” opening rounds.

Five years later, he is certainly a much changed and more experienced player and will be targeting a second major victory after posting runner-up finishes in his last two major title bids – at the US Open and British Open.

“I don’t really remember the golf course at all but I do remember back in 2010 that I was very nervous,” Oosthuizen said while preparing for tomorrow’s opening round at Whistling Straits in Wisconsin.

“I played with G-Mac [Graeme McDowell] and Phil [Mickelson] the first two rounds, and it was my first major after winning a major so I know I was really, really nervous.

“But this time will be a little different. I won’t be that nervous. It’s a linksstyle golf course so I am really looking

forward to it.” Oosthuizen, 32, will certainly be one of the players to watch this week at Whistling Straits, and not only for a swing regarded as among the sweetest in the game.

“It feels great to go to a tournament and not be thinking about whether or not you can play. You can focus a bit more on practising and working on a few things. I just need to keep my body where it is now.” – Reuters