Q. Is it fair to say you have low ambitions?
SIMON YATES: My ambitions aren't really, really high. I take them as they come and, you know, when you're playing golf -- I started late and stuff. I wish I had more confidence playing golf than I did skiing. I can go on a British ski lift for two years and get on them and feel like I've never been on them.
Golf is a funny game. It's not like one day to the next can be totally different. So it's very difficult. But again, if I suddenly get good and people say to me, go to the U.S. tour qualifying, that's more toward what I would like to play in weather-wise. You're not getting bad weather: One day wet, cold. I just can't play in it. What was it, two or three days ago, it was really cold.
Q. Will you be interested in a card is you do well this week?
SIMON YATES: Sure if you get into a few big tournaments, sure. In Dubai I think the top six Order of Merit go to Dubai. I played all right. Johnnie Walker, I finished 18th this year. But I finished 26th or 27th I think in Dubai.
So it would be nice just to play -- no doubt, I do appreciate playing in them and playing for more money than we play for. I obviously know that the European Tour players, it sort of goes Asian Tour, European Tour and U.S. Tour. I think there are a lot of good players out in Asia, maybe 35 good players and then it drops off.
But anyone can win on the European Tour as you've seen this year. Anyone can win. So hopefully it's me.
Q. What was your biggest check?
SIMON YATES: $55,000 cheque in the Volvo China Open in 1999, U.S. Dollars
Q. Will you play in the Johnnie Walker?
SIMON YATES: The Johnnie Walker, yes - travel from home.
Q. Do you speak any Thai?
SIMON YATES: I speak a bit of Thai. You probably think I speak well but I don't really. I speak it well enough to get by, as you say, but not fluently. I don't sit there and watch Thai TV.
I live right on the beach. I live in a condo. I bought the penthouse three, four years ago, and it looks over the ocean, right by the hill, 280-degree view. That's one of the reasons I just love it there. It's beautiful.
Q. You seem not to be too ambitious?
SIMON YATES: I just go down to the beach. Every once in a while -- my typical day in Thailand: I'll get up, have breakfast in the condo. I'll go to the golf course, practice for two or three hours. Because it's hot you can't practice all the day out there. It comes to lunchtime, 12,00, I drive back to the beach. I have a regular restaurant there and I have my regular Thai food there for a pound total with drink, and go back up and watch TV or go and swim or whatever I need to do. So it's a very relaxing life. I like it.
You can get thunderstorms. You get some good thunderstorms because it gets humid. This time of year, it's sort of -- it's a little bit humid. It's the rainy season, September, October. And then November, December, January, March is clear, blue sunshine, perfect. It's in Hy-hea. It's about two hours south of Bangkok. I chose Thailand because it was very central in Asia, it's the best food there, great place for good weather, very central.
Q. Details?
SIMON YATES: No. 1, I hit it to the right side of the green and made a 40-footer. I didn't really snake any others. I hit it pretty solid. Last few holes I was struggling a little bit with the left-to-right wind and I had a couple of dodgy shots, but otherwise it was okay.
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