I felt like I was playing fairly well at the beginning of the year but nothing happened. I couldn't hole any putts so I was finishing 35th every week.

I never felt like a pioneer. I didn't think it would come this far, where you see everybody going in that direction. I didn't think it would be this fast. But it's fun.

Chili-dipping is very easy, put it that way.

I said the heck with it, I'm going to surrender. And I gave in. The game got me. I was trying so hard, but didn't win. I gave up pretty much -- not gave up, but I decided I was going to take a break and see what happens.

Then I started swinging around the hip injury and started hooking the ball 30, 40, 50 yards. I remember playing in Vancouver. I almost won the tournament playing a 50-yard hook. I knew that was it, that I had to have surgery.

Everything has been put into question, first by the opposition and second by the opposition to Hashimoto within the LDP, ... That means delay, no resolute policy action, and that means that for stocks and the yen, there is no anchor of hope.