Eddie Pepperell

In spite of how expensive the tickets are, I think the tour could honestly charge...

a third more and still get a sellout crowd so i i i get that they're expensive and it's a shame but it's an unfortunate reflection of just where we are at the world in the world and how expensive it is to stage an event like the rider cup the tour can't control that i suspect it is costing them an absolute fortune to put this tournament on and i'm sure they will do it in a better way than it's ever been done before in europe so um you know i'm trying to see both sides of it

Maybe they need like a kind of a boys club, like Justin Thomas, Ricky Fowler, Jordan Spieth, because at the moment, I'm not sure any of them are going to be in the team.

So why not chuck them three at it and just say, there you go, fellas, you go run the show.

And it's kind of a consortium, if you like, of, you know, I don't just try something completely different.

It's obviously not going to happen.

Well, it isn't going to happen.

Andrews, the smart motorway, since the smart motorway has come up, I think you need to get a pair of those running shoes.

Yeah, Mick Duran Duran texted me yesterday and said, Ed, have we been this place before?

I said, this is one of the only, I think this is the only course in Turkey that I've never walked off that we're playing this week.

So, no, the last two times I've been to Turkey, I've walked off at the Montgomery Max in 2019 and last year at the Regnum Carrier.

This year, we're at the PGA National in Belloq.

so not far from those are the two courses but um there is a difference and i'm on my own so i'm taking a different approach i'm not going to be indulging in the chocolate you know all you can eat counter and whatnot at the all you can eat buffet so um yeah let's hope fingers crossed for a better outcome

Um...

I've been playing okay at home.

Yeah, I've played quite a lot and I've been playing okay.

So I've been trying to keep it relatively simple for me.

But yeah, we'll see.

The worry actually is that I've over-practiced, if I'm being truthfully, brutally honest.

That being said, I would say that I've taken a slightly different approach to my practice over the last two weeks and that I've probably stuck more to one thing.