Dan Brown says a strong week alongside fellow Yorkshireman and PGA Tour rookie John Parry in New Orleans this week would surpass anything he has achieved in golf as he battles to adapt to life on America’s premier circuit.

The 31-year-old from Northallerton earned a place on the PGA Tour alongside Parry last season after a stellar campaign on the DP World Tour which saw him win in Germany and reach two other play-offs.

But while Parry has looked relatively comfortable making the adjustment to American conditions, Brown is finding it a lot tougher.

He is clinging to the personal history of performing better in the second half of a season but hopes the pairs event at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans can kickstart his campaign.

Bunkered: Dan Brown plays out of a bunker at Ganton. He plays alongside John Parry on the PGA Tour this week (Picture: Tony Johnson)

placeholder image — Bunkered: Dan Brown plays out of a bunker at Ganton. He plays alongside John Parry on the PGA Tour this week (Picture: Tony Johnson)

“This is going to be a good week with John,” said Brown, who is 126th on the FedEx Cup rankings to Parry’s 79th.

“If we had a good week there it would surpass anything. I think the team stuff, going back to when I was an amateur playing for England and winning for England and for Yorkshire, was always that bit more special. Obviously you share an individual win with your caddie, but being able to share it with team-mates is special.”

Brown was speaking on a recent visit to Ganton Golf Club to represent the professionals of the 2020protour against the cream of Yorkshire’s amateurs.

His career has accelerated in the past four years with two wins, taking the outright lead in the Open at Troon and his elevation to the PGA Tour among the highlights.

Golfer Dan Brown gives tips to the visitors before the third instalment of the 2020protour match at the iconic Ganton Golf Club near Scarborough (Picture: Tony Johnson)

In a candid interview, he accepts he can still barely believe he has achieved so much.

“I don’t really set targets or goals, but it’s hard not to look ahead at times,” he told The Yorkshire Post.

“Going back a few years I never thought I’d be in this position. Everything that’s happened in the last three or four years has exceeded my expectations of what I thought I was going to do as a golfer.

“I think I probably need a bit more belief, I probably still have a bit of that mindset where I feel lucky to be where I am. But at the same time I’ve earned it and I just need to remember that, and that I am one of the best players in the world, but it’s just telling myself that. When you’re struggling at times it’s difficult to tell yourself that.”

Golfer Dan Brown at Ganton. He says historically he comes good in the second half of a season (Picture: Tony Johnson)

Promotion to the PGA Tour was almost ripped from his grasp in the final round of the final event of the 2025 season. The top-10 players on the Race to Dubai not already exempt get tour cards to America and when he came off the course in Dubai, Brown sat 10th.

“I thought I was going to be alright, so I went back to the hotel for a nap, woke up from that and Rasmus Neergaard Petersen was on a back-nine charge and nudged me out,” he lamented.

“Thankfully Laurie Canter went to LIV. He actually rang me about a week later to say he wouldn’t be taking the PGA Tour card so I knew then, but the couple of days after the Race to Dubai I wasn’t best pleased.”

That drama, plus his feelings about his own standing in the game, mean he is going to give his shot at America everything he has.

“I’m basically just going to try and play as much as I can in America. I’m going to come back and do the Scottish, The Open, the Irish and Wentworth,” said Brown.

“I just want to give it a good crack over there.”

Another all-Yorkshire team contests the Zurich Classic of New Orleans; the Fitzpatrick brothers both coming off a win, Matt last week at the RBC Heritage and Alex a month ago at the Hero Indian Open.