AIG WOMEN'S OPEN

August 2, 2025

Chiara Tamburlini

Mixed Zone

Q. Even par. I would describe that as a gutsy performance. How would you describe it?

CHIARI TAMBURLINI: I mean, I think I made 14 pars. I suppose that's pretty good. Just didn't make many birdies really.

I hit one ball OB on hole 4 and actually birdied it from the right rough with my 4-iron, my second ball, to make bogey, so that was -- felt kind of like a birdie obviously.

But, no, other than that I felt like it was quite difficult today. Yeah, I feel like it was hard to make birdies and I struggled a bit off the tee.

It's just not easy once you're out of play. I mean, had to chip out of a bunker on 16 as well. Yeah, off the tee wasn't as solid, soit just felt like a difficult day to be honest.

I was quite happy to have shot even par. Yeah.

Q. You said yesterday about making the link your friend. I would say it's a lot windier today. How do you cope with that?

CHIARI TAMBURLINI: Yeah, it was a lot windier. I did get pretty angry on hole 16 because of the wind. I felt like I finally, finally hit a really good tee shot and just didn't move in the wind and went straight in the bunker. I was like oh, my gosh. So much for loving you more.

But, no, I feel like it was definitely a bit more windy and I feel like today was a bit more crosswind than we've had the other days, and I was especially struggling with the right to left wind, just understanding how much the ball was going to turn.

Yeah, because I think the other two days was more just straight down or straight into. I thought that was a bit more difficult today.

Q. Did that mean you had to change a lot of clubs off the tee?

CHIARI TAMBURLINI: No, off the tee not too much. Pretty similar I feel like. It was more just couple irons that turn a bit too much on me on the right-to-left wind and left me some tricky situations, but got couple really good up and downs.

Q. I know you wanted to play in front of the crowds. You were the third to last group out today on a major Saturday. How was the whole experience?

CHIARIA TAMBURLINI: It was really cool. It was fun having people out watching. Yeah, it was difficult, but I really tried it remind myself to enjoy it as well. I think if you're in the heat of the moment you just -- performance is the main thing.

But to really sit back and just remind myself that this is pretty cool.

Q. All things considered you were seven back heading into the morning.

CHIARA TAMBURLINI: Yeah.

Q. As it stands you're five back.

CHIARA TAMBURLINI: Oh, really?

Q. You actually improved.

CHIARI TAMBURLINI: That's really good.

Q. How are you going to go about tomorrow?

CHIARA TAMBURLINI: I think I'm just going to go in really brave. Just like, you know, fear is just not going to bring me a long way, and that's the one thing I want to try to avoid. I know it's negatively formulated, but just not be fearful of anything, hit the shots for the sake of hitting them, be aggressive. Be smart but aggressive. See where we ends up at the end of the day.