T-MOBILE MATCH PLAY PRESENTED BY MGM REWARDS

April 5, 2025

Angel Yin

Shadow Creek

Quick Quotes

Q. All right, here with Angel after another victory at the T-Mobile Match Play. Can you just talk about some of the highlights from today's match that helped in your victory?

ANGEL YIN: Which one?

Q. This quarterfinal match.

ANGEL YIN: The second one. My chip-in on 13 really helped me feel confident, because the golf course is getting ridiculously hard. Everything is like concrete hard and putts are hard. Like 11 I was downhill, kind of straight, not too much to it, and I just babied it and I was just laughing.

You're just so scared at this point because some of the putts can get really, really fast.

Q. That chip-in on 13 that you mentioned, you think that propelled you to win the next four holes?

ANGEL YIN: I think it definitely set me in the right direction. With Jeeno and how good she's been playing it's kind of up in the air. I would say like I just kind of kept going. I don't know.

Q. And we were just talking about you're going to head against Madelene or Celine tomorrow. Have you played with either of them before?

ANGEL YIN: Played with Celine before. I think my recent one was maybe Solheim. Maybe here. I don't know. Fact check.

Never played with Madelene before. I think I maybe played with her once since I've been pro, so...

Q. The chip in on 13, Jeeno had a very similar shot right before you. Did that help you with your read on it?

ANGEL YIN: Didn't really help me with the read. It helped me more with the decision of how to -- where to land it and how to roll it out. We chose -- I was going to choose something similar to her shot. She was bumping and kind of running it out. I flopped it just because I just felt like that's my better shot.

But she did help me in a way.

Q. And then just the fact of beating Jeeno, she's arguably the best player in the world right now; just constant Top 10s. What does that do for your confidence knowing that you took down probably the best player?

ANGEL YIN: I mean, definitely feels good to beat her. She beat Nataliya, right, 8&7. Pretty brutal, especially on a course that's so unpredictable. Every hole she managed to be so consistent throughout and close ir out at 8&7.

I understand that Hyo Joo did that too, but to do it in the round of 16 in conditions that are much harder than the first day, it's really impressive.

Q. No one has really challenged her this week until today. When you took the lead on this par-3, chip-in, did you sense things were changing at that point?

ANGEL YIN: No. No. No not on this golf course. I mean, this golf course anything can happen, and I just was like, okay, at least I'm 1-up now. I've been kind of 1-up in the beginning and then 1-down throughout the day, all square, 1-down again.

I was like, okay at least it's going my way, but never -- I mean, even until like 16, until I chipped it to two feet, that's when I was like, okay, the match is over.

With Jeeno and a player that good and a golf course this difficult, it's never over.

Q. Last question: What did you do during the break in between matches?

ANGEL YIN: I tried to stuff my face with food. I had my red light. Just trying to recover and trying to just rest a little bit before I go again. Our tee time got pushed up ten minutes because Celine played a lot of holes, which is so impressive.

Like Ariya said, she's walking really fast right now for walking so many holes. It's so impressive. I was like slacking out there.