Q. Here with the 2025 Caddie of the Year. Talk about what that means.
PAUL CORMACK: It's humbling. Obviously it's voted on by fans, colleagues, players. For them to vote for me, it's nice. I think it should have maybe gone to somebody else but that's me.
Q. I'm sure you just heard what Lydia mentioned about you. What can you just comment back with that, what she said?
PAUL CORMACK: I mean, I think she's one of the best players in the world, if not the best player in the world. To work with her, she goes out and works hard every day. Everybody sees it. It's easy to go to work when somebody works that hard.
It's fun, and last year was extremely fun. It was nice to be part of something essentially that historic that might never be done again. Yeah, it's neat.
Q. For some people that don't know about you two, can you summarise what your journey has been like to this point as a caddie?
PAUL CORMACK: So I moved to the U.S. and played professional golf for ten years, and then I got fed up. Spending money and wasn't making any money. I really didn't know what I was going to do. And then I started caddying. Actually a friend of mine, Sean, who caddied that year, was like, Why don't you go caddie? You'd be good at it.
I was like, I don't know about that.
Six months later, I decided I was going to do it and here we are. I haven't worked for very many players really. Worked for Matt Shields for six weeks. Worked for Na-Yeon Choi until she stopped playing. Worked with Katherine Kirk for the rest of the year. Worked with Anna Nordqvist four and a half years, had a brief stint on the PGA TOUR with Kevin Chappell. And Lydia called, and here we are.
Q. Lastly, what have you just learned in your time as a caddie? What's one really important thing that you've learned?
PAUL CORMACK: As a caddie? I suppose the prep work. Even as a player, there's a lot of things that I do now that you should probably have done as a player but you don't and then you start doing it for somebody else and you're kind of like, why was I never doing that for myself.
It was actually probably the prep. I thought I was good the at prep but like every caddie out here, they go out and do their work. We are all hard working.
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