Q. Joining me today after the final round of the CME Group Tour Championship is Pajaree Anannarukarn. It's been an emotional week I'm sure. 60th in the field and finishing runner-up and watching one of your best friends win. Can you just talk us through some of the emotions of the week?
PAJAREE ANANNARUKARN: Just been an awesome week. Just no complaints. I mean, gratitude. I'm just really happy with how I was able to perform well and to celebrate my friend for back-to-back wins, so that was pretty cool.
Q. Your previous best finish this season was a T10. How does it feel to finish the season on such a high?
PAJAREE ANANNARUKARN: There is a lot of things to take away from for sure, not just this week but just this season. I think I've been, again, very happy with how I've been playing all season.
There is a little bit of here and there that I want to improve and there is a lot more golf for me ahead. I still just want to do -- to improve myself better every day that I can, and it's just fun to be able to do what you love out here.
Looking back it's been a great season and great year.
Q. Going into the offseason, do you have anything off the course that you're looking forward to or anything that you're excited about now that we're done with the 2025 season?
PAJAREE ANANNARUKARN: Yeah, I'm looking forward to go back to Thailand to see my family and my sister, and then we in Hong Kong for couple days, so that is a trip I'm really looking forwards to.
Of course spending a lot of time in Bangkok with my friends. If we get a chance to go with my family, we'll hopefully do a little bit of a trip in Bangkok or in Thailand, any part of Thailand.
It's just we don't get to go back very often, and this time of year it's going to be a time that I'm looking forward to. So, yeah.
Q. You and Jeeno are two of the two new Thai players kind of on the scene after Ariya started that resurgence for Thai golf. Can you just speak to what she means to the game, what it means to watch your little sister rewrite the history books like she has?
PAJAREE ANANNARUKARN: It's amazing for what she has done and what she's doing. I think it's just good for the game and golf in Thailand as well. She's been a big role model to a lot of new generations and to us and she inspired so much, even us, too.
So it's just good to see that, and there is a lot more that obviously more accomplishment that we want to do -- to be to do it out here.
It's just for now I think it's just been awesome.
Q. How do you take this and kind of ride this momentum into the offseason and into 2026?
PAJAREE ANANNARUKARN: I think I just, again, I try to do what I've been -- like say what I've been working on since the beginning of the year and carry on to mid-year and now the season finale.
I feel like I carried and learned a lot of mistake and a lot of good things.
So I just try to take that and try to keep improving on any aspect of my game and to improve that and hopefully will keep that momentum going. So really looking forward to next year.
Q. Last one from me: Will you stick around and celebrate with Jeeno? If so, where are you guys going to dinner?
PAJAREE ANANNARUKARN: We're going to Sushi Thai, Too. It's Gong's (phonetic) birthday today so we do a little bit of birthday surprise. Hope we don't crash it or anything. Looking forward to that. We'll have a nice gather to celebrate her win and Gong's birthday, too. So looking forward to that.
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