Q. (No Microphone.)
LOUIS OOSTHUIZEN: Everyone is hungry and thirsty to be at any sport event and have fun and watch some golf, so it's really great to have fans back and the first six months playing on TOUR without any fans felt so weird, I felt like we were back in the juniors tournaments again and no one is really supporting you. It's good fun just to see everyone here.
Q. What have you been doing during your off time?
LOUIS OOSTHUIZEN: Nothing. Nothing golf-wise. So I went -- I haven't been back, with everything with COVID, we haven't been back to South Africa in two years. And finally could get going and we went there in December and actually got stuck 20 days longer because we got COVID as well. And so we were there for seven weeks, I didn't even take my golf clubs with. So I had a good break away from golf and came back and I'm ready for the season.
Q. What does that rest do for a golfer of your caliber? Does it prepare you more mentally?
LOUIS OOSTHUIZEN: It just sort of resets everything, you know, like especially I was quite tired at the end there, going into major weeks having chances to win and not pulling it off, that sort of drains you quite a bit. And I needed the break.
And four weeks would have been the trick for me, but seven weeks was nice.
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