THE CHEVRON CHAMPIONSHIP

April 3, 2022

Pernilla Lindberg

Mission Hills Country Club

Quick Quotes

Q. Here with Pernilla Lindberg, past champion here at The Chevron Championship. You had a very special moment to bid farewell to Mission Hills today. Tell us about it.

PERNILLA LINDBERG: Yeah, hole in one on the 5th hole. What I really thought was funny was when we played the practice round on Tuesday this week, we walked over to that tee box because that's like a different angle where they put us today, and I actually hit a 7-iron to that pin. Because Daniel want to convince me, because that yardage more looks like a 6-iron yardage for me, but he's like, no, let's hit a 7-iron here.

We know we have done it in the past and it's the perfect club from there. I hit a good one on Tuesday and today I go over there and hit that 7-iron and I was like, oh, this is like meant to be when it went in. This is exactly the shot we practiced.

But, yeah, it kind of landed just left of the pin just on the edge of the green and just fed perfectly down there.

I was talking to the people in the group in front of us who were on the 6 tee, and they said they looked back when it was like 12 feet out they were like, that's going to go in, because it was just feeding perfectly out there.

Q. Having gone around here now all week, how many memories of your victory, knowing this is the last time, did you have during the course of this week?

PERNILLA LINDBERG: So many. I really -- you know, I was kind of -- I didn't have my best game this week, and on Friday when I was kind of fighting to feel like -- to stay inside the cut line. I was like I really just want two more chances here. I don't want to end on a sour note by missing the cut.

It's just such a special place. Little memories come up all the time. On the 10th hole today I had almost exactly the same putt what was my winning putt on that 10th hole in 2018. I almost holed it again.

I had the right line. It just ran out of speed at the end. Yeah, little things like that come up all the time.

Q. Do you look around at the mountains and just say, you know, just going to miss all this?

PERNILLA LINDBERG: Absolutely. Already Monday morning when we were sitting in the clubhouse having breakfast and looking out over the mountains and we said, there are not many clubhouses that can beat this view.

It's just such a special place, and I have loved it from the first time I stepped foot here. I should go back and look better, but I think 2011 was the first time I played here; I missed the cut I think that year.

I haven't missed cut since. I had quite a few top 20s, 25s, and obviously the win. But it's just from the first time I came here I just love the look of the course. I love the grass. I love how the greens roll. I'm just really sad that we're not coming back for this event.

Q. On that note though, what does it mean to be permanently enshrined here and have a little piece of Pernilla Lindberg associated with Mission Hills?

PERNILLA LINDBERG: You actually give me like chills now. It's so special because I have loved this place all throughout my career on tour, so to be able to actually have my name engraved in history here, no one can ever take that away from me, so that's special.

Q. How many aces have you had?

PERNILLA LINDBERG: I think that's nine. Counting quickly, yeah. I had my first one ever in college. My parents were visiting Oklahoma and I thought that was pretty special, because they were the ones who introduced me to the game.

At that point everyone in my family had had a hole in one and I hadn't, so they -- that was like the only thing they could kind of hold over me when it came to golf. Now I have passed them.

Yeah, I remember I made one in Arkansas; I made one in China one year; Malaysia; here; one in the LET in Turkey; mini tour event in Orlando. Yeah, never in any cars on the right hole.