COGNIZANT FOUNDERS CUP

May 15, 2022

Nasa Hataoka

Upper Montclair Country Club

Quick Quotes

Q. I'm here with Nasa Hataoka. Tell me, you had a really good round today. Similar to your round on Thursday. Did you find any similarities in your game or on the course?

NASA HATAOKA: Yeah, I had two bogeys on front nine, but I just hung in there.

Q. Tell me about that. What did you say to yourself? I saw you had a really good stretch on the back nine, so what did you do to sort of do that?

NASA HATAOKA: Yeah, I feel like I was just really able to focus on all those shots, especially coming into the back nine, and just allowed me to go low again.

Q. Overall you just had a really consistent week. What do you find was working for you out there?

NASA HATAOKA: The second and third day for me were kind of rough, so I just told myself to give it my all on the last day, and I'm happy to have finished in the top ten.

Q. What are you going to take away from your performance this weekend as we head into the summer swing?

NASA HATAOKA: Yeah, there's still a couple of things that I would like to fix in my swing, so I have another two-week break coming up this week, and I'm just going to gear up for the Women's U.S. Open.

Q. Last question. There were some challenges out on the course this weekend. Weather being one of them. How do you feel like you overcame some of the challenges you faced this weekend?

NASA HATAOKA: As of late I've been changing a couple of things in my swing, so just being able to have the courage to trust in it and play as well as I did helped me a lot this week.