Do your family come to watch you a lot?

Once in a while they do. My father is also playing on the European Senior’s Tour. When he’s off and I’m playing he tries to come and watch me play because he is also my coach.

Do you plan to play a lot in the US through 2007?

We pretty much arrange it the same way every year. I usually play a little bit more in the US than Europe, but I try to play worldwide. I go to Ja-pan and down to South Africa, China and to the Emirates too.

I probably play eighteen or nineteen events in the US and then around eleven or twelve in Europe and a couple worldwide.

Do you think it is difficult to keep your world ranking up by doing it solely from the European side?

It’s a little bit tougher. Mainly because it’s easier to get more world ranking points in a US tour event. Not all of them, but some of them. I also enjoy playing in Europe. I think Europe is awesome to play and we enjoy the atmosphere and the courses around here and that’s why we keep playing.

Is there more camaraderie on the European Tour?

Yeah I think so. It feels like the European tour is more like a family, and on the US Tour everybody goes their own way. I have a pretty good relationships with some of the European players that play on the US tour like Luke Donald and some of the more worldwide players like Adam Scott, Reteif Goosen, and Tim Clarke - but it’s not quite the same.

Is it important to you to have those friends on the US Tour?

Definitely, yes. It feels like you’re not alone and you have friends there that you can go and have dinner with, maybe go to the movies and things like that. So it does help a little bit.

“I try to work out to improve my game and my swing ...
I have worked with my dad to reduce the lag
and make the swing easier to repeat.”