Teeing it up in the 2021 Monday qualifier for the PGA Tour event played in California each season as an alternate event to either a World Golf Championship or The Open, as it is this year, the New South Welshman missed a putt from less than two feet in a play-off to cost himself a debut on the game’s biggest circuit.

“When you make it on @pgatour for yipping in a playoff,” he wrote alongside the video in his Instagram Story last year.

Returning to the same stage this year, and still without a PGA Tour start to his name, the big hitting right hander from Picton was one of four players to secure a start this week at the event that is now co-sanctioned by the PGA and DP World Tours.

Owning an immense ability to go low, the Gary Barter pupil and Australian Golf Club member recorded nine birdies on his card during Monday’s round at Hidden Valley Country Club against three bogeys. His six-under 66 earning him a place at Old Greenwood this week where he joins seven of his countrymen in the field, including 2014 winners Geoff Ogilvy and Greg Chalmers.

Warren’s low round is no fluke event at the right time. The 26-year-old who played college golf in Arkansas knows how to make plenty of birdies and his power off the tee regularly garners attention on the range at Tour events.

And his attitude to his varied fortunes trying to achieve his PGA Tour dream are enough to create even more support beyond his impressive game.

“Redemption feels nice,” he Tweeted in response to a post by the popular Monday Q Info account.

A made cut and some money in the bank will surely feel even nicer.

- Image via PGA of Australia