Justin Harding (Rsa)

It has been a good start to the year. I obviously didn’t have the result I was looking for in Singapore but I thought I played alright. Just a couple of holes caused me a bunch of shots. Other than that, I took advantage of my invite to Dubai and I got into Saudi the next week. I’ve been playing good golf and making fewer mistakes. This has been key for me for the last 12 months. It just about trying to keep yourself in the tournament for as long as possible. I’m getting closer to WGCs and the Majors. It’s a matter of doing what I’ve been doing and seeing what happens. Things will take care of themselves if I continue to post good results. It adds a little bit of pressure, knowing you are the highest ranked player this week. But I guess it’s a testament to the fact I’ve been playing really decent golf lately. It’s nice to be in the featured pairings, getting on TV, having the home support back home as they can watch it live and sweat it out with me. It’s good fun. A win would have got me into the WGC next week and I’m hoping for something similar or maybe a chance to lift the trophy this week. This week is an interesting week itself with the match play on Sunday.

Poom Saksansin (Tha)

It’s nice to be back here in Perth. Nice golf course and weather. I feel like my golf game has improved a lot. I played with one of my best friends in a domestic tournament last week and I liked his golf swing. I copied that and I feel it has helped me. I looking forward to playing well to get into the match play on Sunday. I feel I have a good chance. There are only six holes and anything can happen. If luck is on my side, like in Jakarta, I have a good chance.

Lucas Herbert (Aus)

It’s good.  It sets up really well for me with the results that I’ve had, but it’s a really cool place.  I love being here.  Perth is an awesome city.  Getting back here is always a fun week of the year.  I like match play but only getting six-hole matches is good.  You have to be on your game really quick and really early.  I mean, it’s not so much anymore about whether I like it, it’s more adapting to it, whether it’s match play, six-hole match play, everything like that.  It’s been good fun the previous two years and sort of seeing how it’s all played out, obviously improved from the first year we tried it, and it would be good to see. I am pretty sure there will be improvements this year I still think about that six-hole match against Kiradech in the semi quite a lot, and I still go back and watch the highlights quite a bit, because I hit some pretty good shots in there as well. He (Kiradech) hit an unbelievable shot in the shoot-out hole to beat me, so it wasn’t like I kind of lost it and, you know, fell apart.  He played really well to win that match.  It was a little bit heart breaking, but I mean, I thought I played pretty well and did everything I could. He was just better than me when it came down to the clutch.