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00:00Do you think that's had a bit of an impact on injuries for not only you, but other players
00:07just having to go play such a wild schedule, which I would like for you to walk us through
00:11on kind of where you have to go to play on the LPGA Tour?
00:15Yeah, I mean, fatigue plays a huge role, right?
00:19If you're tired and whatever, your whole body feels it and we do play a decent amount.
00:25I mean, there's times when we were playing an event in Jersey, and then we had a major
00:31the following week in Seattle, and then the following week we were in Ohio, like, you
00:37literally what's going on, and you're flying red eyes, right?
00:43Because you need to be there for Monday practice rounds, especially a major.
00:47You need to be able to get out on the golf course and play it a couple of times.
00:52It's not like you can just fly in on Monday and play it on Tuesday and Wednesday, and
00:55then you're done.
00:58So yeah, definitely fatigue played a big role, but I mean, when I started in 2011, we didn't
01:04have too many events.
01:05We only had 24 events.
01:07As a rookie, I played 15.
01:09I finished 90th on the money list with $50,000.
01:12Yeah, not a lot.
01:15And I traveled outside, I like had to go to the British Open and do the Monday qualifier
01:20and like qualify for that, and I'll never forget.
01:24I mean, they're great memories, but it was very stressful because like the playing opportunities
01:29were not what they needed to be.
01:32And somehow, some way with Mike's leadership and all the players on tour, like we were
01:38able to get-
01:39Mike's great.
01:40I played golf with him recently.
01:41He's an awesome guy.
01:42He is.
01:43We got our tour to, I think we were playing like 33 events in 14 different countries,
01:50but we went to like every Pro-Am, we wrote thank you cards, we got to know a lot of our
01:57tournament sponsors, the tournament directors, and you have like, it was more like a family
02:03aspect of it where we were just grateful that they were putting money into the tour.
02:10And then, yeah, the travel was insane.
02:14I think I went like five or six weeks in Asia, because that's just what we had to do, and
02:21you're playing like Malaysia where it's so hot, and then you go to Korea where it was
02:24like almost snowing.
02:25How do you pack?
02:26You pack?
02:27Okay, I'm just-
02:28Are you a professional packer?
02:29Are you-
02:30I'm a terrible over-packer.
02:31I am literally the one that always has everything.
02:32One of my nicknames is Mama Jess, and literally if anybody's missing anything, I had it.
02:44I had two massive suitcases, completely overweight.
02:47I stuffed my golf bag with stuff.
02:50I felt bad for anybody lifting my clubs up.
02:52I would literally send balls to my caddy, because there were times where we had to travel
02:55with our own balls and gloves and stuff, and so I'm just sending my caddy balls, gloves
03:01and towels, and I'm like, this is your job.
03:03I just do not have the room for it.
03:06So I had two suitcases.
03:07I don't have the pounds for it.
03:09Yes, exactly.
03:10I was like two suitcases, a carry-on, and a golf bag, and that's how I traveled to Asia,
03:16basically.
03:17Yeah.
03:18Wow.
03:19Yeah.
03:20Yeah.
03:21Wow.