New US PGA Tour special temporary member Ryo Ishikawa plans on spending plenty of time at events in Japan even as he works towards being able to play a full schedule in America one day. The 20-year-old Japanese sensation, speaking on the eve of his Thursday start at the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill, Florida, said he will not abandon playing in home events, at least in the near future. But in Tokyo, the Japanese daily Nikkan Sports reported that Ishikawa’s camp had started “research” on a house where he would base himself in preparation for his “full-scale participation in the US tour next year.” “Long term, yes, it’s my dream to be playing the majority of events over here,” Ishikawa said in Orlando. “But it wouldn’t happen in the near future because the Japanese Tour helped me reach where I am. I’m really grateful for what I have in Japan. “For physical reasons, the time difference and geological differences, distance-wise, for my physical state, I think it’s better to stay over here (in the US) and play. That would be the ideal situation. But in the near future, no.”
