MEIJER LPGA CLASSIC

June 12, 2025

Sofia Garcia

Blythefield Country Club

Quick Quotes

Q. Okay, here with Sofia after her first round at the Meijer. Just talk about how it went for you out there today. Several birdies looks like on the scorecard.

SOFIA GARCIA: Yeah, definitely that helps. I only make one bogey on 17. That's kind of a tough hole. Like I'm not going to be surprised if we get some high stats on that hole because of how it's set up.

I had a couple bad -- I was in bad positions first couple holes and was able to make some really good pars that really got my round going.

Struggled a little bit with my putter. That wasn't the case today. I was feeling good with it and on speed and reading the putts correctly.

There were a couple that I think were a little bit lucky, but that was one of those days and I'm glad I took advantage of those today.

Q. Touch a little bit more on 17, the setup like you said, how it's a little funky maybe?

SOFIA GARCIA: It's starting to blow a little bit so that hole makes it longer, it's a tight fairway, the pin is in the back. Even if you have a good driver, still it's a hard pin to hit in. I think might have a mid-iron, long iron.

So definitely it's playing a little bit harder just because of how it's set up. I am happy that I just came out with a bogey; could have been worse. So just took the bogey and made a birdie on 18. That helped the numbers.

Q. Can you talk about I see your fairways are a little lower. You obviously still had like a great score today. Were you scrambling a lot out there? Do you think that's easier to do on this course?

SOFIA GARCIA: I don't know about that. We had just that conversation with my playing partner, the low stats. I didn't think I was hitting the driver very badly. I was in bad positions at some point and got some lucky breaks in the sense of where it was sitting in the rough.

I was hitting my irons well. Having a little bit of control with that I was able to read the rough, because I was there a lot today. Kind of didn't get in too much trouble second shots and obviously made the putts so that helped.