THE CHEVRON CHAMPIONSHIP

April 23, 2026

Ina Yoon

Memorial Park Golf COurse

Quick Quotes

Q. All right joining us after the first round of the The Chevron Championship is Ina Yoon. Ina, you had a great round today. Can you just talk about some first impressions of the course and the setup?

INA YOON: First, I like this kind of grass, so the first impression was really nice. Like, oh, my God, this course is just for me. Yeah, kind of like that.

Yeah, the weather was little like sprinkle in the middle but overall little windy but it was good.

Q. You had a really good week last week at JM Eagle. How do you feel like that kind of set you up to come out here and compete this week?

INA YOON: Yeah, in last week I had pretty good week for me. Yeah, was -- I think it was good to prepare the first major of this year.

Yeah, my shot was great last week and I think that tempo still there, so it's good start this week.

Q. At this golf course what do you think is going to be really important? Hitting fairways? Putting? What do you think will be important?

INA YOON: I think all of them because it's really -- it's a major course so the conditions are really difficult.

But the most thing I think important -- I think the most thing important is just iron shot I would say. Yeah, to the green, to keep the green is very important to make good score I guess because the green fall off everywhere so green seems smaller than usual.

So yeah, I would say the iron shot.

Q. Nice round today.

INA YOON: Thank you.

Q. On the back side, on the seventh hole, unusual tee shot. Can you walk us through what happened on seven.

INA YOON: Oh, seven was par-3 and little -- ground were a little wet today so little mud on like my shoes so little skid.

Q. You slipped?

INA YOON: Yeah, slip a little bit. So I hit really fat shot, like this much. Like, what? And went in the water hazard and just made double bogey.

Q. Was that only time you slipped today?

INA YOON: Yes. Unfortunately.

Q. How would you describe the conditions of the golf course in terms of the mud?

INA YOON: I had a practice round in like March or February, I don't know exact date was, but at that time was little slow and fairways are little long.

But right now are perfect. I mean greens are really fast and fairways are perfect and the rough is long length.

Q. Yeah.

INA YOON: Makes us challenging. Yeah, it was a little challenging but it's overall like course condition are great.