WOMEN’S AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP

June 25, 2026

Farah O'Keefe

Quick Quotes

Q. You really had to dig deep.

FARAH O'KEEFE: Oh, yeah. Running on fumes every here, but, yeah.

Q. They were just saying that the extra holes and the way you played the last two days?

FARAH O'KEEFE: A lot of golf.

Q. You must be feeling it?

FARAH O'KEEFE: Yeah, yeah, I feel like I played a pretty ridiculous amount of golf in the last three months, two to three months. So I don't know, I feel like my body's kind of at this point where I'm in between exhaustion and feeling great all the time. But it is what it is and I think that this is what Tour players do, they push themselves and so our game is super physical even if people don't believe it is. Walking four, five miles every day or twice in a day sometimes it wears you out a little bit, especially, it's just wear and tear, but there's nothing that some good sleep can't fix.

Q. Lunch time was a quick turnaround, wasn't it?

FARAH O'KEEFE: Yeah, I had an hour between tee times, so, yeah.

Q. At least you got your time for your back?

FARAH O'KEEFE: I did, yeah. Thank goodness. Thank you, R & A.

Q. What was the key to your win?

FARAH O'KEEFE: Yes, actually on 12 it's like a 360 par-4, it was pumping downwind and I pulled driver off the tee and I was pin high, I chipped it to about seven feet and made that for birdie to go even in my match. Then on the very next hole I hit, I told Brian my caddie that I have never done this before, but I hit 8-iron from 118 back into the wind to about 10 feet. I didn't make it, but all I needed to do was lag it up there to win that hole. So that kind of flipped the match, those two holes. But I normally hit my 8-iron 160 and I hit it from 118, so that tells you how windy it was. It was pretty incredible.

Yeah, I think those were kind of two really good shots and then I just stayed patient the rest of the way and things happened to go my way.

Q. What did you make of your opponent, because she's very young, she was quite emotional out there, but she had a fabulous for the night?

FARAH O'KEEFE: Yeah, the fact that she's, I mean, she's not even -- she's my age in high school, which is crazy to think about. So she's going into her last year of high school. I think this is incredible experience and she's a really good player. She didn't really hit many bad shots. There was maybe just a couple of putts here and there, but if those had dropped, that match would have gone her way. She did an incredible job. She's so young. She's going to have so much time to learn and get better. If I was add good as her when I was a senior in high school, man, I wouldn't even be talking to you guys right now, I would be a professional. But.

Q. Do you see a big future for her then?

FARAH O'KEEFE: Oh, I do, yeah. I think she has a great future in front of her. As long as she just stays patient and doesn't force anything to happen, just continues to chase progress over anything then she will be just fine. This game knocks you down a lot more than it lifts you up. As soon as you have the time to realize that's the reality and you can't let the outcome be what determines how you define success, then you're golden, as soon as you come to that realization that that outcome is just a byproduct of doing everything right and doing everything right is really what should be your definition of success and fulfillment.

Q. Lastly, for the rest of the week coming obviously you're tired and stuff, but you're still optimistic obviously and you got momentum?

FARAH O'KEEFE: Yeah, I think that, you know, I don't really enter a tournament unless I feel like I have the opportunity to win. I've been playing great golf recently and all I need to do is just keep that up and keep giving myself opportunities to win holes, because really that's all match play is. Sometimes you get a good bounce, sometimes you get a bad bounce and everything else kind of is out of your control.