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Saturday, 22 November, 2025

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Riyadh Golf Club

Richard Bland

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Q. Really great round today. Could you just summarize your final round and your week in general.

RICHARD BLAND: It's been a good week. Nice to finish the year strong. A little bit up-and-down today. The wind kind of got up there the last nine holes, which made it tricky. Yeah, overall it was a good week.

Q. Obviously it's the last event of the season. What are you looking forward to going into the next?

RICHARD BLAND: A rest, a holiday. I'm going into holiday tomorrow. Looking forward to just putting the clubs away now until January, just kind of shut it down.

Yeah, and then kind of start ramping it back up in the new year, ready for LIV here in early February.

Q. You'll be back here same golf course, had a great week this week. Is there anything about this golf club that you're excited to come back to?

RICHARD BLAND: Yeah, we played under the lights here earlier in the year, and we're doing that again. I think that's a pretty cool way to do it. So looking forward to that.

I've kind of struggled on this golf course the previously two or three times I've been here. I've kind of played okay, but I've not really scored that well. So it's nice to get some rounds under your -- you know you can shoot a good score, which is a big thing. So knowing that when we come back, that I can shoot good scores, it just gives you that little bit extra confidence when we're here for LIV.

Q. And a great way to finish the year?

RICHARD BLAND: Yeah, I hadn't really done a huge amount coming into this since Hong Kong. Yeah, it was nice to be kind of on the edge of things. Jose behind, he looks like he had it pretty tied up sort of early in the back nine.

I knew I was always, always chasing. When it got tricky, when the wind got up, it's hard to chase. But no, I'm happy with the week.

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