Call it good luck or good fortune. Either way, it's paid off in Victorian golfer Ashley Hall's favour at the Australian PGA Championship on the Gold Coast.
Sitting at three-under-par in the first round late on Thursday, the 33-year-old stared down a tough shot for the green as the winds began to pick up and blow back into his face.
A storm was rolling in.
"I said to Adam (his caddy): 'We'll just wait a little bit'.
"I think I had enough to get it the front of the green but not all the way back to the flag into the breeze.
"It felt like they were going to call it."
His instincts were correct - they did.
And when he returned on a calm Friday morning, he three-wooded it straight onto the green to set up a birdie.
"I suppose my experience - I got called a veteran the other day - it's starting to come out."
The birdie catapulted him into a run of form. He birdied three of his last five holes and then returned almost straight away in the relatively still conditions to go three under in his second round - ending the day in second and two shots behind leader Andrew Dodt.
"It was really good this morning," he said.
"It was certainly warm. But we got probably a majority of holes without too much breeze."
Aside from the advantageous conditions, Hall is better trained for the Royal Pines course than most others this week since its revamp in recent years.
Following on from his playoff loss to Jordan Spieth at last month's Australian Open, he dropped into the Gold Coast last week for a three-day pro-am on his way to the Sunshine Coast.
And he believed it was making all the difference as he carried a three-shot second-round clubhouse lead midway through Friday.
"I did it for the greens and I think it's paying off," he said.
"Putting on the greens and hitting shots into the green were very beneficial.
"I've played on the grainy stuff a lot but this is quite strong and it was actually really nice to get away from the Royal Sydney greens because they're just totally different."
