BLACK DESERT CHAMPIONSHIP

May 3, 2025

Jennifer Kupcho

Black Desert Resort

Quick Quotes

Q. Okay, here with Jennifer Kupcho. Hole-in-one today. Can you just walk us through the shot, if you saw it go in, what your reaction was.

JENNIFER KUPCHO: Yeah, I was in between clubs. I thought my 8-iron was going to be too much, so I kind of argued on hitting 9, and thank goodness I didn't.

Yeah, hit 8; caddie obviously helped me make that decision. Hit 8 and after I hit it I was like oh, I floated it like as if it was going to be short and it landed perfectly and, yeah, I saw it go in. It was really cool.

Obviously Charley and I had kind of a big crowd at that time, so that early in the morning it was a pretty big roar. It was pretty cool.

Q. How many hole-in-ones have you had in tournaments or outside of tournaments? Where does this rank.

JENNIFER KUPCHO: So this is No. 4 and No. 3 out here on the LPGA and in tournaments.

I don't know. I had the one at Meijer where I was kind of up near the lead and that helped me get closer; didn't end up winning. That one was really cool because there was a lot of people there for that one, too.

This is the first one I think my parents and husband have both been watching, so that was really cool.

Q. That's awesome. And I'm sure you know too there will be money donated to St. Jude's for your hole-in-one. What does that mean?

JENNIFER KUPCHO: Yeah, it's awesome. I think it's awesome what we do for that. Yeah, it's awesome for St. Jude's. It's super special I know to all of us in all of our hearts.

Q. You had that so early in your round. How do you think that set your mindset for the day?

JENNIFER KUPCHO: Yeah, I think kind of the last couple weeks I've been struggling just to be comfortable on the golf course, so kind of when we had all those fans coming out like on the first hole, I was like, man, I'm shaking.

So it definitely calmed my nerves a little bit and let me settle down. Like okay, like I'm good. Let's go.