U.S. WOMEN'S AMATEUR FOUR-BALL

May 6, 2026

Morgan Ellison

Katie Scheck

Daniel Island Club

Press Conference

Q. Women's Amateur Four-Ball champions. What a way to finish. How do you feel right now?

MORGAN ELLISON: Amazing. Out of this world. Loss of words.

KATIE SCHECK: Amazing. Exhausted. My watch tells me my body battery, and I think I'm now on five. I told myself I'm going till it hit zero no matter what. It feels amazing, though. It's truly unreal.

Q. You guys obviously played the most holes ever in championship history. You overcame a two-hole deficit yesterday. How do you keep finding a way when you find yourself in these deficits?

MORGAN ELLISON: I think that we kind of knew that we didn't play the first six holes our best. Those are not our strongest holes even though there's some birdie holes. We made some birdies, but we just kind of knew, as long as we could kind of stick in there, once we reached that stretch of 7 to like 13, 14, that those were some hard holes, but we could play those well. We were really good at those.

We knew if we stuck it out --

KATIE SCHECK: We could capitalize on them big time.

MORGAN ELLISON: We just tried to ride it in and make what we needed to.

KATIE SCHECK: Not give up. Just count on each other and know the other one is going to be there to make the putt or hit the shot and all that good stuff.

Q. After you missed your putts on 17 and 18, what was going through your mind as you got into the playoff hole?

MORGAN ELLISON: The one on 18 really kind of broke my heart, stopping half a foot short. I was like, oh, Morgan, you dad would have told you to hit it harder and get into the hole.

But I decided on the cart ride over that I was going to start fresh. Walking up to the 1st tee, you feel like you're starting new already. So I was just going to start from there and go from there.

Luckily my putts on 17 and 18 were left-to-righters, and those don't suit my high. And hole No. 1 was a right-to-lefter. So I felt a little bit better about that one.

Q. Women's Am 2026, was the Women's Am even on your mind? Obviously I'm sure you were going to try to qualify, but how does it feel playing in the Women's Am in your hometown?

KATIE SCHECK: Out of this world because it's in my backyard, and I can sleep in my own bed. It makes it easy. It's a ten-minute drive from my house. So it makes my life easy.

MORGAN ELLISON: Oh, yeah.

KATIE SCHECK: That's just a cherry on top.

MORGAN ELLISON: I said something to my dad about it yesterday, man, I would love to not go to my qualifier. To be able to go, it's not far from my hometown. My aunt lives up there. My grandma's not far. It means a lot to get to go there.

It will be our first Women's Am and just go give it a shot.

Q. What does it mean to you guys to be USGA champions? This is your first USGA Championship, and here you are, 1 for 1. What does it mean to be champions?

MORGAN ELLISON: It's unreal. Some friends of ours that we know from Georgia, Sara Im and Thienna, they won it four years back, I think. Man, we hadn't talked to them much about that week, but the feeling kind of set in today when I was walking across No. 9, the bridge to the green, and I was like, holy crap, we're in a USGA Championship matchup. I was like wow.

So it means the world. It's just been an unreal week.

KATIE SCHECK: It's super special to be here with my partner and my family and everything, and to just close it out like the way she did and to get a hold of this trophy that we knew we kind of were like that trophy's ours. We said that jokingly. As we were walking the course on Wednesday, we were like that trophy is ours this week.

We made it a reality! So that was really special.