Q. Is staying patient one of your virtues?
CARIN KOCH: Definitely. I get better and better at it. I used to be very bad at staying patient. About three and a half years ago I had to learn to be patient more, so but it's important on any golf course any day. You just can't get ahead of yourself or, you just never know.
Q. Is it especially important with links golf?
CARIN KOCH: I think so because I think you can really get some bad kicks and some good kicks on links golf. There is some luck involved in it, but might not be on every course we play in America all the time because I definitely think you can get some good kicks or bad kicks and, you know, if you hit a great shot and get a bad kick, yeah, you do have to be patient because nothing you can do about it. If you are going to get upset about things that you can't control, it is just going to take energy. So you just have to hit it and hope that it goes the way you want. And this course, I think, it is more and more links golf everyday we play. It was quite soft in the beginning of the week, and you know, by the back nine today it is getting really quite firm.
Q. kind of conditions would you like to see out there tomorrow? What will suit your game?
CARIN KOCH: I think we had about every condition you could have today except rain, so it will be nice if it wasn't so mixed. Hard to fill the bag with clubs. I think the last few days have been perfect conditions. I would like to see similar -- just some wind but not, you know, not a storm, and it's nice if it doesn't get too cold. But it doesn't have to be that calm. This course is made to play in a little bit of wind.
Q. Of all the people on the leaderboard, would it be fair to say Karrie is your toughest competitor?
CARIN KOCH: Yeah, I would say so, Karrie is such a consistent player and she has been in majors and won majors before which a lot of us haven't, so that's definitely to an advantage for her.
Q. How will you approach tomorrow?
CARIN KOCH: I don't know if I want my body to shake of nervousness every putt I hit, but yeah, I think I just have to go out there and be aggressive. Today I started out with the first couple of holes just a little tentative with my putting, and on the back nine too I left a couple of putts a little bit short, like the one on 17, and you know, that's just never going to win you tournaments; never going to make you any birdies. I have to stay aggressive. I am a good putter 4-, 5-footers, so there's no reason for me to leave it short. I can always go past because I make most of the short putts. I think that's the key for me tomorrow is make sure I stay aggressive and that's the only way I going to make putts and that's the only way you win a major or any golf tournament for that matter. Otherwise I have to hit it five feet all the time.
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