on tour
Tour Talk With Steven Jeffress
The ‘Moose’ is
loose in Japan
S
ome people think travelling is fun.
Ultimately I don’t mind it, but like
everything, too much of it and it
becomes a grind. After my recent trip to
Fiji, I flew into Brisbane at 9pm and had to
get home, re-pack my bag for my threeweek campaign in Japan and all in a time
where I couldn’t even wash my clothes from
Fiji as my flight was leaving early the next
morning from Gold Coast Airport. I made
the flight but things didn’t go as smoothly
as I would have wished. The plane taxied out
to the runway and then the Captain made
an announcement saying that they needed
to go back to the terminal so the engineers
could check a small problem. Well, two hours
later we were informed that the plane wasn’t
going anywhere due to a two-inch crack in a
window! So after standing in line for an hour,
back home I went - I guess this is one of the
joys of playing Professional golf!
The next day the flight went fine, which
was relieving as we were going to arrive on
Monday night, only just enough time for
our Tuesday practice round at Shishido Hills,
which is about 2 hours’ drive up from Tokyo.
The event was the Tour Cham [ۜ