KPMG WOMEN'S PGA CHAMPIONSHIP

June 20, 2025

Minjee Lee

Fields Ranch East

Quick Quotes

Q. All right, here with Minjee. Could you just give us a brief summary of your round today?

MINJEE LEE: Yeah, I felt like I started a little bit shaky. Turned in 2-over and I knew there was a few opportunities on the front nine to make a couple birdies.

Obviously that kind of little stretch I think 7 -- wait, 6, 7, 8, or7, 8, 9, you can make birdies there.

So, yeah, I just tried to stay patient out there. It was really windy and quite hard to hold -- even hold the greens on some of them.

So, yeah, I just tried to, you know, stay within myself and just be smart and play to my advantages.

Q. Talk about the course conditions today compared to yesterday, especially the afternoon.

MINJEE LEE: Yeah, I think just the wind. I mean, it was similar direction but it was just probably -- I don't know how it gauge how strong it is, but it was probably like maybe ten -- I want to say like eight to ten miles an hour, a bit stronger.

So it just felt like it was so much more magnified. Yesterday the ball, I mean, if it was a left-to-right wind and I hit a little bit of a draw it didn't really touch it as much as like today I hit a draw and it still went left to right.

It was just such a big difference in just even club decision making for which clubs to hit. So, yeah, I think just the wind was the ball striking factor.

Q. Last one, too. Just how do you prep for a major weekend, with the conditions, everything, scoring averages, being tough? How do you mentally prep for that?

MINJEE LEE: I think it's going to be windy the whole weekend, too, so I mean, it's probably going to be similar direction so I think we kind of know what to expect now.

You know, done the practice round and now tournament, so I think it will be whoever has the best recovery in this heat and also who doesn't make like soft bogeys maybe because it's been so hot and you've been -- it's a really slow round, so I think you just got to try and focus as best you can and I think that's what is really -- that's the person who is going to at the end of the week hold the trophy.