SHOPRITE LPGA CLASSIC PRESENTED BY ACER

June 6, 2025

Lee-Anne Pace

Seaview, A Dolce Hotel

Quick Quotes

Q. Okay, great. Here with Lee-Anne Pace after her first round at the 2025 LPGA classic. Awesome day, included a hole-in-one.

LEE-ANNE PACE: Thank you.

Q. Talk about your round as a whole.

LEE-ANNE PACE: Started off a little slow. Made a great up and down on my fourth hole I believe. And then, yeah, I hit literally actually a perfect shot. I was staring at it, staring at it, took the break, everything. I was like, get in. I thought it stopped and I turned away. My sister was like, it's in.

So it was really nice. On a difficult hole as well. That kind of just got me going. Yeah, I think it was nice. I hit a lot of fairways, a lot of greens, and on this course if you putt well, you're quite deep under, so...

Q. Where does that hole-in-one rank in the probably number of them you've had?

LEE-ANNE PACE: That's probably going to be the best one I think. Yeah, definitely. 5-hybrid, a little windy off the left so I kind of have to shape it in there. I think it was the best, yeah.

Q. How many have you had before?

LEE-ANNE PACE: Ten. I actually had one two weeks ago. Yeah, I was in a bit of a dry spell, if you can call it that, and then two weeks ago in Jabra in France I had one and then today.

Q. So that was your 11th one?

LEE-ANNE PACE: Ten, number ten.

Q. And then not sure if you know, but with every hole-in-one on the LPGA Tour there is a certain amount of money donated to St. Jude's.

LEE-ANNE PACE: Oh, how good that? Yay.

Q. Yeah. Your hole-in-one today will benefit that.

LEE-ANNE PACE: Aww.

Q. What does that mean to be contributing?

LEE-ANNE PACE: Yeah, that makes me feel so good actually. I'm very happy about that. I'll try and make four more.