The distractions of fatherhood, including changing nappies, have helped Australian David Gleeson get his career back on track.
Six years after winning the Volvo China Open in Shanghai, Gleeson added his second Asian Tour title with a three-shot victory over Taiwan's Lin Wen-tang in the US$500,000 Macau Open yesterday.
During those six barren and frustrating years, Gleeson has tinkered with his swing and equipment - to the point of distraction.
'Obviously, I was making the wrong decisions, it was making me worse,' he said after his wire-to-wire win at the Macau Golf and Country Club.
Now he has a Taiwanese wife and a 16-month-old son, Xavier, who monopolises his time away from the course.
'I don't think about golf so much now,' Gleeson said after a final-round two-under 69 for a four-round total of 18-under 266. 'Before I would be out in the back yard, grinding away with my sand wedge, making changes to my swing, tinkering with this and that, which was all counterproductive. Now I'm changing nappies instead. Even today I had this rattle in my driver. It didn't bother me, but before it would have.'