NW ARKANSAS CHAMPIONSHIP

September 26, 2026

Nataliya Guseva

Pinnacle Country Club

Quick Quotes

Q. Okay, here with Nataliya Guseva after her second round at the Walmart NW Arkansas Championship presented by P&G. First career ace on the LPGA Tour. Take us through No. 15.

NATALIYA GUSEVA: Oh, my God. It's crazy. I feel like my whole day was such a roller coaster because I started off with two birdies and two bogeys. I was so pissed. I was like, come on, I just need some momentum going here.

I feel like whenever I came to the 15th hole I just grabbed my 9-iron, just a stock 9-iron. Just the line was great. Just spin back and went in and I was just screaming. I saw there were no cameras and I was like how come the cameras --

Q. There were cameras.

NATALIYA GUSEVA: There were cameras?

Q. Golf Channel has it. So you'll see it later.

NATALIYA GUSEVA: Yeah, it's going to be fun to see that. It was fun emotions. Obviously I'm always close to all the hole outs, all the hole-in-ones. And I even said to my caddie this week, I was like, when was the last time we holed out with you? He was like, well, I think it was at the Evian in the practice round.

Okay, we got to do something. It's like fall is coming so it's important to have some good momentum going.

Q. How did that set the tone for the rest of the round?

NATALIYA GUSEVA: It was kind of a weird emotions in a way. It pump me up, and at the same time it started to like really thinking a lot about the scores.

So obviously like it's very important to calm yourself down. I wasn't hitting the ball great today. I'm going to go hit some balls on the range right now.

But it's definitely a cool experience and it was nice to have Alex on my bag for that as well.

Q. Last one: Heading into tomorrow, what's the goal for tomorrow?

NATALIYA GUSEVA: Honestly, just go enjoy, try to make as much birdies as I can. You know, I feel like it's very important to put the pedal on the gas -- yes, put my foot on the gas, sorry, and just go and have fun.

Yeah, we usually do lots of bets with my caddie out there. Just some weird ones, like he sometimes has to wave around to the crowd or something like that.

So we just love -- I just love to kind of challenge myself.

Q. Did you have in any bets around the ace?

NATALIYA GUSEVA: No. But we actually had three birdies to finish the nine and he still actually didn't even do the wave to the crowd, so, yeah, we're going to talk about that.

Q. So he owes you that tomorrow?

NATALIYA GUSEVA: Yeah.