A recent winner on the Korn Ferry Tour and graduate from that circuit, the Australian matter of factly states “I’m not here to come second” but admits there are elements to making his first start on the big stage that are somewhat surreal.

“It’s definitely new. It was a very quick turnaround from the Korn Ferry Tour Championship where I had to withdraw,” Endycott told Golf Australia magazine. “You only have a few days at home and then get to player orientation.”

During the orientation process, experienced Tour players come to talk to the new class, and organised dinners allow a relaxed and fun atmosphere for the circuit’s new guard. Then it is time to get down to business for Endycott and his cohort.

The New South Welshman, who told this publication he will play the Australian PGA and is awaiting a response to a request for an invite into the Australian, is finding comfort in familiar faces from the secondary Korn Ferry Tour. So too those he has befriended over the years like fellow Scottsdale resident Aaron Baddeley.

RIGHT: Endycott has struck up a friendship with Aaron Baddeley which is helping him to adjust to live on Tour and in America. PHOTO: Stacy Revere/Getty Images.

“Rolling up this week and you’re hitting balls on the range with guys you played on the Korn Ferry Tour with and then seeing guys like ‘Badds’,” he said in the final hours before he gets underway at 9:01am Californian time.

“It is just amazing to be able to not only be exposed to the big players, but exposed to those guys through others you’ve played with. Because a lot of those guys are good friends with the bigger names.

“Badds has been amazing with me. He really got me comfortable on the Korn Ferry Tour but also comfortable with life in the United States.”

Beyond Baddeley, who Monday qualified into this week, Endycott also played nine holes with major winner Webb Simpson on Tuesday. All of which has helped convince the 26-year-old he belongs and reinforced his belief that he can not just compete but succeed.

“I am not scared out here. I am far from scared, I am just so ready to compete out here. I’ve been a through a lot of disappointments and a lot of ups as well, and I’ve learnt so much to be able to get here and I have still have a lot of learning to do. But I just feel that I am very privileged and very humbled to be in the position I am right now.”

A product of Avondale Golf Club in Sydney’s north, Endycott has also taken confidence from the success of a fellow New South Welshman he shared breakfast with this week, while noting the presence of Rickie Fowler at nearby table was one of the moments that caught him a little off guard.

“I had breakfast with Cam Davis yesterday. I don’t look at him as playing the President Cup next week, I look at him as my Eisenhower Cup teammate,” he said. “It is amazing to see where he has gone, a Tour winner and Presidents Cup team member. And I look at that and go, ‘I used to smoke you in certain tournaments, and you used to smoke me, and I can’t wait to be in that environment and back competing against each other.”

“I am not scared out here. I am far from scared, I am just so ready to compete out here. I’ve been a through a lot of disappointments and a lot of ups as well, and I’ve learnt so much to be able to get here and I have still have a lot of learning to do." - Harrison Endycott.

That competitive drive is what has delivered Endycott to his current playing privileges on the PGA Tour after chasing his dream five years ago by leaving Australia for the PGA Tour LatinoAmerica.

The adjustment period and confidence growth on that circuit, he likens to a similar experience when he arrived on the Korn Ferry Tour, and now believes will be a similar scenario as he finds his feet on the PGA Tour.

The similarities in going from big fish to little pond followed by the reverse repeatedly along the way admittedly having a slightly different element this week courtesy of some of the perks PGA Tour players find in their lockers each week.

“We had a couple of gifts this week as rookies. Hyper Ice is a sponsor for the PGA Tour. To have a nice little Hyper Ice recovery gun is pretty cool. And a nice little JBL Fortinet speaker. And of course, some wine given we are in the Napa Valley.

“It’s a long way from getting Ubers to the golf course on the Latin Tour to be getting headphones and speakers and massagers and bottles of wine, it’s pretty cool.”