Wigan jester Lynn is paying the price for completing a draining run of 15 events in 17 weeks - and even a holiday in the Maldives has not managed to revive him.
Lynn, 39, last season's USPGA runner-up, put the paradise break ahead of a place in the US Open last month in an attempt to rev himself up - only then to miss his third successive cut, in France last week.
'I am trying to get my mojo back and trying to get myself back into golf mode,' he said.
'You put your heart and soul into every round, grinding it out, but sometimes you just don't feel at the races with it. I feel that way at the moment.
'I'm looking for something that gets me back in that mood. It can be just one round that does it.'
I'm looking for something that gets me back in that mood. It can be just one round that does it
'I have got into the craze of planking, which is lying flat on an object with your toes pointing down and having your picture taken.'
That hobby consists of Lynn posing for motionless horizontal photos in obscure places.
But he has been a huge hit across the Atlantic with his golf, having belatedly tried the US this season.
Top-four finishes in the Honda Classic and Wells Fargo Championship have contributed to PGA Tour earnings of £900,000 in 2013. And that is a record which puts plenty of bigger names in the shade.
If Lynn can rediscover his spark at Castle Stuart this week, he will prove he is not fazed by the sort of company he will keep next week in his first Open for a decade.
'Last season's USPGA proved to me where I can finish in big events,' said Lynn, who will become a father in December.
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