This Florida State University alum is one of the best drivers of the golf ball on Tour, works hard on the golf course and in the gym, is on the private side when it comes to friends and family, and has just a bit of a chip on his shoulder.

But it’s not Brooks Koepka.

It’s Chase Seiffert – although Seiffert admits there are some similarities between the two, save one key area.

“I can’t bench-press that much. He’ll always beat me there,” he says with a laugh. “But there are definitely things you can take from what Brooks has done and what he continues to do, because obviously it works. I like what he does and I’d say we’re similar in a lot of ways. We keep to ourselves. There are a lot of things to learn from people who are excelling at what they do.”

While Koepka was winning his second straight PGA Championship this past weekend, Seiffert was in the midst of his best run on the Web.com Tour so far this season. At the Knoxville Open he finished T7, his third top-10 finish in a row. At the halfway point in the season, Seiffert sits first in both total driving and ball striking.

A win is right around the corner, it seems.

“The last three weeks have been good, but in reality it’s been the last six weeks that have been good,” he says. “I’ve missed certain little parts of the game where I didn’t quite put it together, (but) on the whole of the season it’s been pretty good. I’ve been lacking somewhere and it has cost me here or there. The last three weeks, I’ve really brought it all together each week.”

Seiffert says he’s been doing a lot of mental work away from the golf course to buoy his physical efforts as well. He doesn’t work with a mental coach, but he’s been reading books and staying more positive. He says the little things have added up to good golf the last few weeks and as he looks at a busy stretch on the Web.com Tour to finish up 2019.

He says he’s living more in the present moment and says having everything work together has been a big positive as he looks to stay in The 25.

“I started out a little bit rusty having not really played a tournament after the Web.com Tour Finals, but slowly every part of my game started to get better and I got more accustomed to the travel and life on the road and the routine of all that,” he says. “Everything is in a nice spot right now – mentally, physically – and I’m pleased with where I’m at.”

He says that since graduating from Florida State just over five years ago, there remains a big learning curve in professional golf that he’s trying to get accustomed to.

“When you turn professional, you’re on your own, and you have to learn what works for you, what you like to do, how you rest and recover, how you prepare for events … I’m still getting better at that now,” he says. “I’ve gotten a lot better at it though, figuring out what I need to do to get prepared for events. It’s definitely been a big learning curve, but I’m starting to catch on a bit.”

The last few years – with minimal status – have been a physical grind, he says, chasing Monday qualifiers. Once he secured 2019 Web.com Tour status via last year’s Finals, things have switched, and it has been more of a mental grind.

“I need to get my mind ready to play four-round tournaments, then play three weeks in a row for example, during a 27-week season,” he says. “It was physical before, but now it’s more mental … just getting my mind used to the day-in and day-out grind.”

Seiffert has been able to take advantage of the consistency around having a full-time place to play so far in 2019. He has a pretty tight support circle that includes his girlfriend, Madison, his instructor David (who is also one of his dearest friends), his parents, and just two or three close friends. Those pieces, he says, work to keep the team going – even when there looked to be more questions about Seiffert’s future than answers.

A year ago, Seiffert was chasing Monday qualifiers on the PGA TOUR. He couldn’t get past Second Stage of Web.com Tour Q-School so he played three times in 2017 and twice in 2018 via qualifiers, and his T9 finish at last year’s Travelers Championship earned him just enough FedExCup points to earn a spot in the Web.com Tour Finals. He earned his Web.com Tour card for 2019 that way, on the strength of a T8 at the Web.com Tour Championship.

He says he still takes a lot from his PGA TOUR starts over the last few years, given the stage and how every shot matters. The TOUR opportunities gave him a look at what things could be like, and that’s why he treated those events with such importance. The Web.com Tour is a path to getting back there, so, he says, this year’s schedule is just as important.

“The end game is the PGA TOUR, and there is so much incentive for getting there,” he says. “It’s easy to hype yourself up. You get the same nerves, the same feelings (on the Web.com Tour) as you do out (on the PGA TOUR), because what we’re playing for out here is so big as well.”

So Seiffert may not be teeing it up in major championships quite yet, unlike world No. 1 Brooks Koepka, but the similarities are there. There are few distractions, as he keeps his circle close, there is good play, and there is a hard-working attitude that will push him forward in this game.

“My life off the course is in a great spot, and my life on the course is in a great spot,” says Seiffert. “All that helps.”