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Speaker 1: The new PGA Tour season is underway. The reason I

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Speaker 1: the dpp Will Tour like Ryan Fox does. Anyway, is

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Speaker 1: a fun fact. The off season is eleven days long,

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Speaker 1: suretess of any Anyway, Fox comes off the back of

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Speaker 1: for the rest of the year and into twenty twenty five,

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Speaker 1: So it's time for to catch up. Ryan Fox is

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Speaker 1: with us. Good morning, Good morning mine. Right In preparation

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Speaker 1: for this, I tried to work out where the season's at,

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Speaker 1: the PGA, your tour, Europe, America live, and what you need?

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Speaker 1: How many cards, how many points? It's so damn confusing.

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Speaker 1: What's actually happening the season wise?

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Speaker 2: Season wise, I'm in Europe at the moment, defending Wentworth

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Speaker 2: this week, which is pretty cool, and then I'm heading

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Speaker 2: back to the States after that. I've got a little

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Speaker 2: bit of work to do to keep PGA Tour card

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Speaker 2: for the year. You probably ninety five percent of the

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Speaker 2: way there based on the PGA Tour's projection. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: a couple of good weeks and I can sort that out,

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Speaker 2: and then I kind of got a decision to make

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Speaker 2: at the end of the year where I'm going to

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Speaker 2: play from there, whether I keep playing in the US

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Speaker 2: or come back to Europe and play. You know, I'm

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Speaker 2: pretty keen on taking a little bit of a break.

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Speaker 2: I'm fighting a little bit of a hip injury at

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Speaker 2: and some attention at the end of the year, but

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Speaker 2: it's not nothing serious and just need to manage it

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Speaker 1: Excellent information, So a couple of things out of that,

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Speaker 1: the PG and chasing a card on the PGA Tour.

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Speaker 1: At your level of experience, do you feel the pressure

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Speaker 2: Yeah, a little bit. You know, it's especially probably because

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Speaker 2: I'm close and I don't need much. So the idea

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Speaker 2: that's the easiest way to deal with it, actually not

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Speaker 2: think about where you are. You Golf's a funny one.

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Speaker 2: You're always at some point trying to fight for your job.

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Speaker 2: I've been lucky in Europe to have a couple of

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Speaker 2: fight for my job on the PBO Tour year and

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Speaker 2: in that space. It's kind of a normal scenario to

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Speaker 2: it's you've got your little ways of dealing.

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Speaker 1: With it, okay, And then the decision as to whether

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Speaker 1: you go PGA or Europe, how do you work that through?

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Speaker 2: It kind of depends on how I've gone of this

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Speaker 2: our final events in Abu Dhabi in Dubai, which I've

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Speaker 2: So yeah, there's a whole lot of permutations to work out, basically,

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Speaker 1: Go the hip, How does that unfold? Who do you

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Speaker 2: I think the decision to play on and get it

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Speaker 2: some kind of impingement going on there, which is actually

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Speaker 2: But I've got a bit of time at the end

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Speaker 1: Basically, that partially answers the question, so that doesn't play

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Speaker 2: I have a little bit this year subconsciously, and it's

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Speaker 2: I have been the last couple of years golf swing wise,

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Speaker 2: So you just just manage that a little bit. But

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Speaker 2: for the most part, I can't do any more damage

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Speaker 1: of this is fun? This is how much of it's grind.

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Speaker 2: It's about fifty fifty at the moment. I've done a

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Speaker 1: How much of the PGA tour is like full swing

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Speaker 2: That, I haven't watched a lot of it, to be honest,

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Speaker 2: I find it kind of weird watching people that I

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Speaker 2: the Joel Damon one, and that's probably much more what

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Speaker 1: So the grass is greener in America and there are

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Speaker 1: Does it make any difference to you personally?

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Speaker 2: Personally, I probably prefer Europe. We've got a bit more

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Speaker 2: There's definitely been some things that were tougher than expected.

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Speaker 1: Good without being too crass about it, I know, in

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Speaker 2: To be honest, it doesn't matter. I mean, obviously the

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Speaker 2: in the US it's probably been in an excess of

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Speaker 2: At some point it's going to turn around, and you

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Speaker 2: You know, this year, I've still had a couple of

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Speaker 2: the money side of things. It's more about trying to

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Speaker 1: Good on you and go well well. We'll look forward

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Speaker 1: to catching up Ryan Fox with us out of Europe.

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