HANWHA LIFEPLUS INTERNATIONAL CROWN

October 23, 2025

Madelene Sagstrom

Ingrid Lindblad

Q. Can you talk a little bit about the day?

MADELENE SAGSTROM: I think we're pleased. We were exchanging birdies, making birdies on the same holes, so I felt like -- a tied match is pretty fair. Everyone played pretty solid.

INGRID LINDBLAD: I feel like we missed a couple, they missed a couple. It wasn't like one side always made their putts. Both of us made some good putts.

Q. Is it the first time you guys have played together?

MADELENE SAGSTROM: As a team, yes.

INGRID LINDBLAD: I think yesterday was the first time we played together in a practice round.

MADELENE SAGSTROM: We've never been paired together this year, and we've never -- not in a practice round or a tournament.

Q. Have you known each other out on Tour? Have you been giving each other advice, or is it a friendship and partnership?

MADELENE SAGSTROM: I've been kind of trying to -- being out on Tour for a long time you try to take people under your wing. I was there when she won, drenched her in champagne, so that was fun.

It's kind of -- it's hard on Tour. Especially your first year is really hard. Just to have a familiar face, try to give you some advice --

INGRID LINDBLAD: I'm kind of surprised I'm here this week, too, playing this.

Q. How was it out on the course today?

MADELENE SAGSTROM: I would say our games are very similar, so we kind of hit the same clubs. Normally actually I don't let people read my putts, and I was like, Ingrid got it.

INGRID LINDBLAD: I made a couple good ones.

Q. What were the fans like out there? Were they a little bit biased?

MADELENE SAGSTROM: I feel like the Korean fans were very fair. They'll clap when you do something fair. They were very fair.

INGRID LINDBLAD: I feel like last week they may have been a little bit better, though, because they were cheering for everyone, but this week they're a little bit more on the Korean side I feel.

Q. I've heard the fans here are sort of very, very knowledgeable about golf, they love it. Was it exciting to be in one of the most exciting matches on the course?

INGRID LINDBLAD: It was the loudest first tee box I've ever been on.

MADELENE SAGSTROM: We said, this will prepare you for a Solheim Cup in a few years. They're great. It's kind of -- we don't really get to do this very often, so it's kind of nice when you have a team. We've been hanging out all week. We've been doing dinners, practicing, playing together. It's a different format for us, so it's lovely.

INGRID LINDBLAD: The practice round yesterday was probably the most fun practice round I've had in a long time.

MADELENE SAGSTROM: It's nice. It's a great week.

Q. What's your best piece of advice for a youngster on the LPGA?

MADELENE SAGSTROM: On the LPGA? Well, we've talked a lot. I've talked a lot with both you and your mom this year, trying to help give you advice, doing things. I said, if you buy a place, make sure you do it this time of the year because you don't want your lease to end up while you're in Asia.

Not just golf stuff, it's outside stuff, too. I think the outside stuff is probably more important than the on-course stuff.

INGRID LINDBLAD: I remember you told me after I won, I don't want to see you on the golf course tomorrow because we went straight to Chevron after I won. She goes, I don't want to see you at the golf course tomorrow.

MADELENE SAGSTROM: I said, you will not forget how to play golf until Tuesday.

But it's a very rewarding lifestyle, but at the same time it can be very lonely, it can be very one-dimensional just playing golf all the time. Just keep having a life, have friends outside of golf. You just got a new place, so I think that's a huge step, just kind of grow up. Trying to do grown-up things at the same time outside of golf.

Q. Did you buy a house?

INGRID LINDBLAD: No, I signed a lease for an apartment. I didn't buy a house yet. I don't feel ready for that.

MADELENE SAGSTROM: I said, get an apartment, and once you feel comfortable -- I loved when I had an apartment. It was great. I was like, you don't want to have too much responsibility, either. You want to lock and go but have your own place.

Even though Sweden is our home, you want to have somewhere in America where you can relax, have downtime, just recover.

Q. Was this in Louisiana? Did you have your stuff at your coach's?

INGRID LINDBLAD: Yeah, for just over a year. Then we went to look at an apartment, and I was like, oh, my goodness, this actually looks so good. Right now I own a bed and I've ordered two chairs for the kitchen, and I'm going to put it on my Ikea order. Every day, I'm like, we're almost there because there's the Ikea.