JM EAGLE LA CHAMPIONSHIP MEDIA CONFERENCE

April 25, 2023

Siyun Liu

Quick Quotes

Q. You played your heart out at the LOTTE Championship but now you're here at another LPGA Tour event. What did you learn from LOTTE that you plan to carry to your second ever LPGA Tour event here in LA?

SIYUN LIU: Yeah, definitely LPGA players are really solid in every part of their game. They're a lot more -- I don't know what's the right word, but they contemplate over shots, and they don't make as many stupid mistakes. Even if they have misses, they're like more safer misses and stuff like that, so that's definitely something to learn from.

But also I feel like I'm able to go more at the pin now than before with my iron game, so yeah. A lot of positives to take away, but also knowing where I can work on and where I can move further up.

Q. So being here this week, I know you were super excited to play LOTTE. This one wasn't guaranteed, either, but just how happy are you to be here this week and what are you looking forward to the most? I know Wilshire is kind of a cool little quirky golf course.

SIYUN LIU: Quirky is the right word. I guess I'm still trying to figure out the entire course even though I'm already done with my practice round, but I feel like there's still a lot to think about in terms of strategy and where to place the ball, with different hole locations. But I feel like this course is definitely a lot more of a placement course than Hawai'i because the fairways are bigger in Hawai'i versus here, because everything is so small around this area. Everything is so tight. But yeah, definitely a lot more to think about in terms of strategy, what I want to do, and if I want to just leave it on the green versus going at the flag, stuff like that.

Yeah, I actually really like it. The course is in great shape. The greens are rolling really well and faster. Yeah, I'm excited about what's going to come up this week, and hopefully I can play well.

Q. Is there anything that you got to meet at either LOTTE or that you've met here that you've been -- not star struck by, but wait, you know who I am? Anybody that you've met that's been really cool for you to meet?

SIYUN LIU: Yeah, definitely, because I played with Yuna like during the practice round before LOTTE, as well, and then I ended up playing with her during the actual tournament, so I didn't know that she was ranked like Top 40 in the world or something like that. Then my roommate was telling me, yeah, she's like one of the top golfers and she won like six times on the JLPGA Tour in the two years that she turned pro. I was like, oh, my God, wow. I can see that she's really solid, but I didn't know she was such a big star.

The two rounds I played with her, there were like some die-hard fans following her. From like an outsider's view, I thought she was like wore shipped or something. I'm like, wow, that's like mind blowing to see. But she's so down to earth, super nice. So yeah, that's like one of the coolest people I've met.

And of course Nasa, first time I played LPGA, I got to play with -- she's ranked like 13th in the world or something. I'm like, oh, my God. That was definitely a super cool week for me just getting to play with the top players in the world, so yeah. Great learning experience, and definitely got to see where the best players are at.