Chris Wood
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And Keith Waters, who was sort of the DP world number two for quite a while, he's now running it.
And yeah, so I went down and I had to go to the Mina Tour qualifying, which was... Yeah, that'll be hard.
Which was quite hard, yeah.
So yeah, I managed to win that qualifying and then played six events and managed to win three.
And then sort of halfway through, they announced this pathway up to the Challenge Tour.
So for me, it's worked out well to make that decision to go, I suppose, back in November.
And yeah, my first start.
last week and managed to win and it's nice, like Eddie will know, it's nice to be able to sort of make pretty good plans again for a season, wherever that is you're playing.
I never, I was never, that was never a question for me.
I was, I just needed to step away for a little bit.
I never contemplated stopping because even though the game has been very difficult and I was in a pretty difficult place mentally, like I suppose deep within myself, I still felt like I could hit the shots and
Golfers are strange.
While I was going through that period, I was watching quite probably the most amount of golf I've watched in a long time on the telly and looking at players and go, I can hit that shot.
I can hit that shot.
And that was part of what I suppose kept my belief alive.
and also yeah you see you know friends going on being successful winning events that puts a bit of fire in your belly as well so I never lost that side of it I just I suppose realized that I'm not in the right place to sort of make my way back up that path I need to do something else to step away a little bit first in order to give myself more of a chance
I would say the technical side played its big part of putting me in this position.
I think you'd probably understand as well that tall coaches, in inverted commas, they've got a lot of players that they look after.
And if one or two are struggling, there'll always be three or four more that sort of... It's difficult and...