BLUE BAY LPGA

March 8, 2026

Aditi Ashok

Jian Lake Blue Bay Golf Course

Quick Quotes

Q. All right here with Aditi after the final round of the Blue Bay LPGA. Gutsy performance today. Tough conditions. Talk about that finish after that stretch of bogeys towards the end of the nine and mentally what it takes to come back and put yourself in a good position for a good finish?

ADITI ASHOK: Yeah, exactly. I feel like I was in a bad spell, couple bad swings, bad decisions, and just on this golf course there is just no room for error obviously.

So yeah, just dropped three shots in a row, but after that I was just trying to tell myself, you know, you can't think it's over, even though it might be statistically. When you're out you can see it, but when you're playing you got to feel like it's never done until it's done.

So I tried to put myself back in there and make as many birdies as I could. Left a couple putts short on the back nine which I feel like if I gotten them to the hole they might have gone in, and got a couple bounces here and there which could have gone my way but they didn't, and I was on the top of some ridges whereas they could've trickled back towards the hole.

So I guess the back nine I was trying to go for three, four, more birdies; made a couple. With the stretch in the middle it was a good finish. Obviously I feel like I was there to make it my week and I didn't really convert it.

Q. Talk about what you saw, like what did you prove to yourself coming down the stretch when you said, you're not out of it until you're out of it? What does that mean to you coming down the stretch that you were able to get yourself back in contention?

ADITI ASHOK: Yes, after two days being in the top, second leader group I guess -- third leader group today, second leader group today, so I knew I was finally putting myself back in that position. I've played some decent golf and I feel like 2023 was the last time I had actual chances to win. I had three top 5s, and after that I've just struggled with a couple things injury-wise, swing-wise.

Yeah, put in a lot of work this offseason, and not that I didn't the last couple years, but sometimes it takes time to see it. I feel like this week, first event on the LPGA in three, four months, so didn't know where my game was, especially landing here on Wednesday.

Yeah, I guess if I told me an Wednesday you're going finish Top 3 I would've taken it. Yeah, still I feel like some of the offseason work is paying off now and I can see it in my game. I just need to keep at it, get sharper, and don't make as many mistakes.

As shorter hitter I feel like I don't have that much room for error. I need to be really tight on every shot.