THE ANNIKA DRIVEN BY GAINBRIDGE AT PELICAN

November 12, 2026

Jing Yan

Pelican Golf Club

Quick Quotes

Q. All right, we are pleased to be joined by Jing Yan after her first round at The ANNIKA driven by Gainbridge at Pelican. Jing, this is your lowest round since 2019. Just walk us through that and how you're feeling after this round.

JING YAN: Really good. I did not expect to go as low. Well, it's a par 70, so maybe dock me a few points there. I started off with a bogey, so like you never really know what's going to happen with the rest of your round.

I just tried to forget about it and stay really steady. I put a new putter in the bag last week so I felt like I was rolling it good, which hadn't been the case the previous couple of weeks.

If I gave myself good opportunities I felt pretty hopeful, so, yeah.

Q. You just talked about the one bogey on the scorecard there being the first one. How do you flush it and just what's your mentality like that after that to move on and have such a great round?

JING YAN: Yeah, just try not let a bad score dictate your confidence I think, which I definitely have been at fault for.

Yeah, I started rolling -- I hit a really good putt on number two that almost went in. It was a really long putt. So I tried to focus on that.

And I was hitting it pretty good today, so that helped.

Q. Yeah. Obviously it's going to be a pretty low scoring week. What's important to just keeping it low on this course?

JING YAN: Try to be in the fairways. The greens are relatively receptive than the last time I played, so more opportunities there.

And then, yeah, if you can combine those things and have a hot putter, that's a recipe for a good round.

Q. Last one from me. How do you hope to just keep the momentum headed into the weekend? Obviously in contention now through the morning wave.

JING YAN: Yeah, just kind of try and do the same things and trust in myself and just try and have fun as always.