KPMG WOMEN'S PGA CHAMPIONSHIP

June 20, 2025

Lindy Duncan

Fields Ranch East

Quick Quotes

Q. Lindy Duncan is with us now at the 2025 KPMG Women's PGA Championship. Lindy, a nice 1-under 71 today. What went well for you out there?

LINDY DUNCAN: Yeah, I played really well. Hit my driver good. Hit a lot of greens and got a couple putts to drop.

I didn't really have anything crazy happen other than I got out of position on the 9th hole, which is a par-5, and then I was trying to get up and down from about 105 yards for par; hit the pin and almost went in.

So that was really good momentum.

Q. What were your emotions when you left here yesterday, 77, and did you want to get right back out there and do it again or did you need time to reset?

LINDY DUNCAN: Yeah, I needed some time. I was really upset. I was so frustrated with myself. I made a lot of course management errors and mistakes, so I was really frustrated last night.

Q. Have you taken a lot out of what you did at Chevron earlier this year and moved -- you know, been able to build off that?

LINDY DUNCAN: Yeah, I think so. Life and golf kind of comes in waves and, you know, ups and downs. The game is a very difficult game. We've been traveling a lot, so I feel a little bit of fatigue kind of starting to set in.

I played a lot even straight after Chevron, so I kind of thought that might have had a little bit to do with yesterday's round. I just felt a little tired and flat.

So hopefully maybe some days off and some good recovery would be nice going forward, but I definitely feel like I proved to myself at least that I could play under a lot of pressure, and that's always a nice feeling.

Q. Talking about that, the way you embrace the mental and the physical challenge of the majors, how do you do it?

LINDY DUNCAN: Yeah, I think you always want to have the perfect preparation, whatever that means. This week was a struggle from the beginning for me. I only got to play nine holes for practice. Luckily I saw the course the week before Meijer so I wasn't in total panic mode.

I definitely didn't feel like I exactly knew what I was doing at least on the back nine yesterday because I hadn't seen it. It was a lot windier than when I played a couple weeks ago.

Q. Could you just give us a feel for what the wind is doing today.

LINDY DUNCAN: Yeah, it's really strong. The downwind holes were playing probably the toughest because you're trying to land it in a very small area of the green and not have it release too far.

A lot of the greens have little pockets with bunkers and stuff in the way. So, yeah, the downwind holes were really tricky. We also had a lot of crosswinds as well. Yeah, the crosswinds off the tee shots I thought were pretty...

Q. Coming down the stretch on 18 and that was a difficult hole yesterday and I assume it's not playing easier today.

LINDY DUNCAN: No, and I didn't think my drive would get all the way to the rough because it was more off the left than down, but any time you're in the rough out here it's a lot more difficult to put spin on the ball.

But I had a decent lie and that was probably my best shot that I hit in the two days of the 9-iron I hit on 18.