THE ANNIKA DRIVEN BY GAINBRIDGE AT PELICAN

November 13, 2026

Julia Lopez Ramirez

Pelican Golf Club

Quick Quotes

Q. All right, we are here with Julia Lopez Ramirez after her second round at The ANNIKA driven by Gainbridge at Pelican.

Rollercoaster of a round for you. More birdies than pars for you on the scorecard. Just take us through it. What were some of the ups? What were some of the downs?

JULIA LOPEZ RAMIREZ: I start not feeling very well on my swing. Kind of took me a little while to like figure out what to fix and try to feel comfortable going at pins.

That took a little while. Still make some birdies because I have a bit of wedges on it, but obviously two doubles in the round, so like that was a bit of a rollercoaster, a bit of a tee shot and bit of around the greens.

I know it's still a course that I can do a lot of birdies. Keep patient and keep trying my best like in every shot.

Q. One of our longer hitters on the Tour, if not the longest. With the wide fairways, you only hit 9 of 14, but is it kind of more comfortable for you to just be able to -- knowing you just hit it and you're more focused on your approach shots to the greens?

JULIA LOPEZ RAMIREZ: Yeah, no, I think it's still very important to hit the fairways out here. I know they're bigger. It does free me up to hit more drivers and not trying to be more strategic off the tee city.

I still like want to be in the fairway to have the wedge consistency, and out of rough you get a bit of a flier or it's not much spin, so obviously the fairway is still in playable.

Yeah, I think it's a comfortable course off the tee, and I think just have to like trust the swing and bomb it. That's what I'm trying to do.

Q. What makes this course so scorable?

JULIA LOPEZ RAMIREZ: I think I know it very well because I played here in college as well. I think it's a course that I can take my length and hit shorter irons into pins.

And I think that it is starting to get a little firmer, so that's getting more challenging to go at pins and when the wind picks up. But still quite like if you have the distance and you have really good control with your irons, I think it's really manageable to go at pins.

Q. And kind of on the flipside of that, you went bogey-free yesterday; a couple hiccups today. What's been the key to keeping yourself out of those bogey situations?

JULIA LOPEZ RAMIREZ: I think just being smarter when you're out of position. It's really like key for me. I think sometimes I want to be too aggressive and I'm out of position and I still see the perfect shot going at pins. I'm like, no, sometimes you just have to be okay with playing in the middle of the green or just even like playing shorter or longer and having 30-, 40-footer instead of 10-footer for birdie.

Sometimes it's okay to do that and play that in a smart way.

Q. Last one: I know you answered it yesterday, but now knowing where you're at, now that you're well within the cut line, is it kind of time to change gears and be like, all right, let's try and finish best as I can instead of worrying about like, oh, I got to make the cut first?

JULIA LOPEZ RAMIREZ: Yeah, no, I think like I'm playing really well and I think it's more of like I want to sharpen that swing thought. Like trying to get that dialed for the next couple days. I think it's more of like the gas is still going put in. It's a course that you have to have it because everyone -- it's very manageable for everyone to shoot low.

I think you still need to go at pins, still need to shoot low, and I'm just going to try to get my irons a bit more dialed for the next few days.