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November 20, 2025

Josele Ballester

Riyadh Golf Club

Quick Quotes

Q. Great round today. Can you just summarize your second day?

JOSELE BALLESTER: Yeah, it's been great. Kind of like on the same line as yesterday. Hitting the ball really good off the tee and just taking advantage of the leaves that I had for birdie.

It was nice to start with couple birdies early in the round the same way as yesterday. You know, it was kind of like similar vibe feeling like I could have gone really low but just not quite there yet.

But again, excited with a 6-under, only one bogey in the last 36 holes, which is pretty cool and hopefully I can keep it going on the weekend.

Q. You've had really good year so far. Not long turned professional. What's the experience and how do you feel like the momentum is going?

JOSELE BALLESTER: It's been great. I feel like the last three months I've made a big jump in quality with my entire game. It's been a really cool learning process since the day I turned pro. It was not on easy start on LIV and the first few, three, four tournaments that I played were pretty bad honestly and that kind of like gave me the motivation and I figure out what I needed to do in order to become better.

It's really nice to see all that work paying off slowly and really looking back and feeling like I'm a better player than I was three, six months ago.

Q. And there has been a lot good comments about the course. Is there anything you really like about this, any specific holes or any comments on the course?

JOSELE BALLESTER: On this one?

Q. Yes.

JOSELE BALLESTER: Oh, yeah, it's been great. I heard in other tournaments the greens were not as good, but this week they're fantastic. I feel like the scores are kind of showing that. If you're hitting it great you're going to roll some putts in. Yeah, it's been good.

I think it's a course that benefits long hitters like myself and I'm trying to take advantage of that.

Q. And then obviously you're going into the weekend quite high up on the leaderboard. What's the plan of attack?

JOSELE BALLESTER: Similar idea. Been playing pretty aggressive off the tee as I said. If you're a long hitter and hitting good off the tee you got to take advantage of it. There are two, three holes I've been playing pretty aggressive and they been paying off with some birdies.

So kind of like the same line. Hopefully tomorrow I start with good dynamic as I did the last two days and hopefully towards the end roll a couple more putts in and just, yeah, happy to be out there on the weekend.