THE CHEVRON CHAMPIONSHIP

April 23, 2026

Patty Tavatanakit

Memorial Park Golf Course

Quick Quotes

Q. All right, here with Patty after her first round here at The Chevron Championship. A phenomenal bogey-free round from you today. Just how tough was it to go bogey-free today?

PATTY TAVATANAKIT: I'm not sure. I don't know. I feel like I just was just out there and I was just enjoying like the moment and just really was just looking at what's in front of me the whole time.

I would say it wasn't perfect. I wish I would've hit my driver a little bit better. But this course opens up, and luckily I was able to scramble around and save some good pars.

Q. Yep. I was going to ask, what do you attribute most to it? Was it the iron play? Wedges? Short game? What was it?

PATTY TAVATANAKIT: Iron play was decent. I would say like it's still not like where I want it to be. At the same time like I'm not out there to chase perfection. My job is to get the ball inside the hole as fast as I can and I feel like did that really well.

Q. How much credit do you give to your scrambling maybe when you don't -- you kind of have a mid-iron day?

PATTY TAVATANAKIT: I'm pretty like confident with my short game I would say, so it does open up a lot of room to not be perfect with everything else.

Just kind of trying to get it in front and then get close to the hole as I can and then always looking forward for the next shot.

Q. Is that resilience something that you've always had or did you have to cultivate that over the course of your career?

PATTY TAVATANAKIT: I think I definitely learned that the hard way. I feel like over the years of having to scramble a round of golf together, it definitely helped me stay that way.

I feel like that is the definition of golf a little bit, is like you're not going always have it your way. How you can kind of scramble around and put a round together matters more than how you actually are striping it or how actual, you know, your game is.

Q. How does a round like that on Thursday set you up for the rest of the week do you feel like?

PATTY TAVATANAKIT: I'm not sure. I honestly don't know. Like I don't know how it's going to set me up. I just know that I have three more rounds ahead of me and I'm going to do my best and just give it a good go.