Instruction: van der Walt sets goal to say on PGA Tour

Dawie van der Walt with his coach Brian White ( Tracy Wilcox )Editor's note: This story originally ran in the Nov. 16-23, 2015 issue of Golfweek magazine

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. - Dawie van der Walt waited for the day he would join the PGA Tour. Eight long years.

“He said to me, ‘Can you believe it took me this long to get out here?’ ” recalled Brian White, van der Walt’s coach at Lamar and his instructor of 11 years.

Van der Walt never expected his golf talent would take him so far until he won the 2003 South African Amateur and received a scholarship offer to Lamar, in Beaumont, Texas. Van der Walt spent three years on the mini-tours and made countless trips to South Africa and Europe. One…