MIZUHO AMERICAS OPEN

May 7, 2026

Jeeno Thitikul

Ruoning Yin

Mountain Ridge Country Club

TV Quick Quotes

Q. You guys played together. Off to a hot start. It was chilly though. Ronni, is there a level of comfortability when you're playing with friend?

RUONING YIN: I just love to play with my friends, especially Jeeno; we're kind of close. Just really fun to play with her and fun to watch her play. She's put on a clinic today, so it was really fun to watch. I learn a lot.

Q. You holed out on 13 for eagle. Walk me through that shot.

RUONING YIN: Oh, yeah, because I did see that shot breaks a lot at the end, and I'm having a bet with my caddie, like if I hole-out, if I chip in 15 times through the season, he going to buy my dinner. I think that was the seventh one. We're coming.

JEENO THITIKUL: Every tournament that you play.

RUONING YIN: We're going to play more until I reach the goal.

Q. Well, you're well underway to a free dinner. I love that. Jeeno, great round today. Incredible round. Just you said earlier this week that you had spent some time with your golf coach and he said that you needed to try less.

JEENO THITIKUL: Yeah.

Q. Tell me about that conversation, how it impacted your play today.

JEENO THITIKUL: Yeah, he's still texting me every day this week just like, how are you feeling? I say all my feeling every day, each day on my mental side and also my swing side, and then he just said, yeah, good. And then try less.

He knew that how hard I work and when you put your work on and you don't see the result sometime you just really disappointed. Then he just like sometimes you don't try and maybe if you don't try you don't expect.

Q. Low expectations sometimes you play the best. What will be the keys to keeping this good play going for tomorrow?

JEENO THITIKUL: I mean, this course kind of tough. I mean, like the green is tough. I mean, if you put your golf ball above the hole, I think your job is just, you know, be close to the hole, not in the hole. Just be close to the hole because it's so down from the back to the front.

I think calculation the yardages wasn't easy to be able to have chance to make a birdie. I think just keep be patient.