Leona Maguire has turned to Tiger Woods' former coach, Sean Foley, as she bids to arrest a slide down the rankings that has seen her fall from 10th in the world to 73rd.
With the top 75 players in the rankings at the end of this week automatically qualifying for next week's US Open at Bel-Air County Club, Maguire is hoping her position holds firm and allows her take her place in Los Angeles.
Maguire was in the top 10 in the world rankings three years ago but has seen a steady decline in her performances in an incresingly competitive sport and has now been working with Foley after being a pupil of Shane O'Grady's for over 20 years.
Speaking on RTÉ's Inside Sport, Maguire explained her reasoning for the change.
"I started with Sean at the end of last year. It was at a crossroads at the end of the year," Maguire said. "I had a lot of middle of the pack finishes last year and I was scratching my head going, 'what's next, how do I improve?'
"Do I settle for finishing 48th, 58th on the money list and week in, week out, or do I want to actually get back into the top 10 and, and contend week in, week out?
"I had a pretty honest conversation with Shane at the end of the year and he liked what Sean's suggestions were, and Sean had some pretty big suggestions. He's based in Orlando where I am over here, and he's worked with a few of the girls that I know pretty well.
"He was adamant that I needed to get more width and turn in my swing. I needed to get a higher ball flight to suit golf over here. The golf courses are certainly getting longer and firmer and faster.
"It was a risk. There were no guarantees it was going to work. There's no guarantees that it still has worked, but I suppose that was a risk I felt like I wanted to take to bring my game to the next level.
"Shane's been a massive part of my journey all along the way. He always will be, he got me to 10th in the world and all the wins on the LPGA and all of that.
"The swing was still in a very good place, but it just needed something else at this point in time to be able to bring it to the next level.
"I'm very grateful for everything that Shane has done, and he's always going to be a massive piece of my journey. This is just a slightly new venture to see if we can achieve even bigger and better things."
Foley, who worked with Woods from 2010 to 2014 and has also worked with Justin Rose, Lee Westwood and Lydia Ko, is well known on the world tours merry-go-round. Maguire feels if she's to compete with the long-bombing modern-day player, she needs to add some distance off the tee.
" I've made some changes over the off season. I've made some changes to my golf swing and those things take time," she said.
"I'm happy with where it's at. It's just trying to get the consistency of it up and there's been enough good in there to see the benefit in that, even if there is some growing pains with it.
"Driving it longer, driving it straighter. There was some inefficiencies in my swing that any time I tried to get stronger or faster, then it just went more offline. So getting the golf swing better so that when I do get more strength and speed in the gym, that you're able to apply that to the swing.
"And trying to put on that extra length but still maintaining the accuracy has definitely been key, but it's nice to be going into some greens with a club less.
"There's been a few golf courses we've gone back to this year that I've been able to carry a few bunkers that I wasn't able to carry before, and that definitely makes a difference in terms of setting up some more birdie opportunities."
Leona Maguire was speaking to Greg Allen for RTÉ Radio 1's Inside Sport
