U.S. WOMEN'S AMATEUR FOUR-BALL

May 14, 2025

Athena Singh

Keira Yun

Oklahoma City Golf & Country Club

Press Conference

Q. So obviously not the result you guys wanted. Still, you guys battled out there. Did you guys feel you ran out of gas a little bit in this last match?

ATHENA SINGH: Yeah. I mean, it was kind of tiring; pretty much our first time playing 36, 36 back-to-back, two days.

But we were tired, but I feel like we just kept ourselves going and tried not to think about it too much.

KEIRA YUN: I think I was definitely tired, but there was still a little bit of adrenaline, so I think that helped.

Q. Speaking of adrenaline, seemed like it was hard to hold the greens. You guys were over the greens on a few holes. Can you just talk about that?

ATHENA SINGH: Yeah, that was me, my irons. I cannot put enough spin on it to stay on the greens so I've been basically just trying to land it in the front.

Few holes downhill I couldn't really stop it, but other than that, it was fine.

KEIRA YUN: Yeah, I think my adrenaline got to me. I started hitting some my clubs way further than I am used to, so I was off the back on a few.

Wind was a little hard to judge.

Q. Kind of talk about your mentality throughout this match, trailing, and then we will talk also about your match in the morning.

ATHENA SINGH: Honestly, in this match we weren't going in with high expectations. We were just kind of in disbelief that we got to the final match, so I think both us and our parents, all of us were pretty much saying that we got here; doesn't matter how we play; just try to play our own game and see how it goes.

KEIRA YUN: When we started falling behind I think we kind of just like we're going to play the best we can, and if they keep sinking birdies we can't do anything about it.

We just kind of picked at each other for losing so much.

Q. What about this morning? How do you guys feel throughout what match? What got you through?

ATHENA SINGH: We started the first few holes, like the first half up by lot, so I think we were pretty comfortable at that moment. They kept making mistakes.

After that momentum kind of changed and they won a few holes, and then we just tried to keep our composure after that and not try to stress too much.

Q. What are your thoughts on the week overall? Any takeaways or anything you learned?

KEIRA YUN: I definitely learned how to play on a difficult golf course, and I think that is going to help a lot with my course management in other tournaments.

ATHENA SINGH: Yeah, same kind of thing for me. Playing a long course, I feel like this is one of the best that I've done from a distance like this, and I kind of learned how to hit a bunker shot halfway through this tournament, so that was also nice.

Q. Talk a little bit more about that. What do you mean?

ATHENA SINGH: So I've had a few bad tournaments from the bunker. Like I would hit it across the greens and that's partially because like I don't hit it very (Wind interference) out of the bunker.

I feel like I kind of learned how to hit that shot because it's required here. Everything is just going to roll off.

Q. Yeah. What's next on the schedule for you guys?

KEIRA YUN: Finals.

ATHENA SINGH: A tournament.

Q. School finals?

KEIRA YUN: Yeah, school finals.

ATHENA SINGH: I already did my school finals. I think I have the Dye Invitational and then the Rolex Invitational, AJGA.

Q. You playing in any other major junior events?

KEIRA YUN: Not that I can remember right now.

Q. Lastly, you guys are exempt into the championship for three years; what does that mean to you?

ATHENA SINGH: Pretty nice. We don't have to go through stressful qualifying. We were alternates for this one too, even after shooting 6-under, so we don't have to go through that again. It's nice.

KEIRA YUN: I couldn't ask for a better partner, so just knowing I get to play another three years with her and how far we made to this time, hoping maybe one time we can come back with a win.