LPGA MEDIHEAL CHAMPIONSHIP

June 11, 2021

Lydia Ko

Lake Merced Country Club

Quick Quotes

Q. You're in a position knowing this golf course and playing it as well as you have in the past. You're certainly not out of it. How do you feel like you are playing and how do you feel like it is playing?

LYDIA KO: Yesterday was a little crazy, like way too many bogeys. But every time I made a mistake I felt like I was able to kind of come back from that, which is good.

And I felt like I was -- like yesterday was the worst I could play with the way I was playing yesterday. Today I hit the ball a lot better and I just gave myself a lot of good looks at birdies, and I think that's all you can do.

Obviously being in the afternoon makes it a little bit more difficult on these poa annua greens. It gets a little wavy out there, so you have to be patient. I felt like I did that pretty well.

Just going to focus on one shot at a time and see where that puts me at the end of Sunday. Yeah, hopefully I'll be able to put all the good things together and post a low score.

Q. Looked like you hit that putt there the way you wanted on 9. Did you have a lot of that today, where you hit it where you wanted and it didn't go in?

LYDIA KO: Yeah, hit it pretty much on the line that I thought, and sometimes like when it gets a little pushed off by the poa annua I think it picks up more speed in some ways.

That way looks -- you know, your next one you're thinking it should be just a tap-in, and then it can sometimes be two-, three-footers as well.

So everyone is playing in the same conditions. That's why we have a morning wave and afternoon wave. So it's pretty much same for everyone.

The greens overall have been really pure. I just think that just with the growth throughout the day it's going to get a little bumpier. There is a few, but not too many crazy ones.

Q. Is you have to ask you about one shot. Uphill lie out of a bunker in the rough. Everybody looks at that shot and said, Oh, yeah, driver.

LYDIA KO: Yeah, I was telling Derek, I was like, You know what, it's actually not my first time hitting a driver off that same lie.

Q. Really?

LYDIA KO: Hit that a couple years ago. I was in the rough and it was tee'd up and I was --

Q. Here?

LYDIA KO: Yes, at the same hole in the same spot. I was so mad with the way I hit that drive couple years ago that I was like, You know what, Johnny, who I was working with at the time, just give me the driver, and I hit it and went just short of the green.

Today as I was walking down I was like, Man, it would be pretty cool if the lie is good and then I know I can hit a driver. Because you're going so up on it. The worst case scenario I miss-hit it and still going to be a pitch shot.

So it's a shame that I three-putted from there. Other than that, I thought that was probably the shot of the day.

Q. Absolutely the shot of the day. May have been the shot of the tournament. How far was that shot by the way?

LYDIA KO: It was like 230 something, 236 front, probably like 263 pin.

Q. So you hit it about 240?

LYDIA KO: Yeah, yeah. So just landed so softly, which was great. At one point I thought it was going so high that it was going to go too long, but I pretty much couldn't have done any better from there.