KPMG WOMEN'S PGA CHAMPIONSHIP

June 27, 2026

Dewi Weber

Hazeltine National Golf Club

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THE MODERATOR: Dewi Weber joins us here at the KPMG Women's PGA Championship. How did you feel about your round and heading into tomorrow?

DEWI WEBER: Pretty good. I played good golf. It wasn't super easy. I think the wind makes it tricky, and especially when it's gusty out, it's hard to trust whatever number you've been calculating, and sometimes you get a gust that you didn't account for, and it's kind of hard to -- maybe not. For me, sometimes it's hard to accept that you hit a good shot and it ended up in a bad spot.

But yeah, I shot 4-under. I holed a lot of putts. I hit a lot of good shots. I can't really complain about anything.

Q. It looks like there's a mindset that you're carrying this week that is taking you through these tough conditions and you're still doing well with it?

DEWI WEBER: Yes. I like how I'm on the course right now. Obviously I'm playing well, so maybe it's really easy to say that. Like golf is really fun when you play well.

But I think the way I'm doing my stuff right now, I really like. Like I just said, sometimes I have a hard time accepting shots. I don't really have a hard time with that right now, and I really like that about myself.

Q. Can you give us an example or some highlights of how you applied that today?

DEWI WEBER: I'm trying to think how I started my round. Yeah, I hit my approach into 3 in potentially the worst spot you can be, back bunker, and like deep in it. I think -- I know exactly why I did it. I pulled it a hair off a hanging lie, and with the wind coming into off the left, I didn't trust that that ball wasn't going to leak to the right. So subconsciously, I think I just pulled it to kind of save myself.

I ended up in literally the worst spot you can be on that hole with that pin position. Instead of beating myself up like I would have like probably four weeks ago, I was like, it's literally the second hole or the third hole. We take what we can get. We put it in a spot where we think we can maybe make a par putt, and then we move on. I did exactly that.

On the next hole, I hit a really good shot, and I think Mitch thought the wind flipped and it pushed the ball to the right, being again in not so good of a spot to make up-and-down from there, and I made bogey again, and it didn't really faze me. I was like, you're hitting good spots, you're seeing the putts on the right lines. Yeah, the putt didn't go in, but whatever; we move.

I think that's something that I for some reason haven't really been able to do in the past. I'm really happy that that is what I'm doing right now.

Q. Can you take us through the strategy of the 16th hole today?

DEWI WEBER: Yeah. For me, it's a bit of a caveat; I was hitting it well and I was hitting it online, so I felt really comfortable with the target that we chose.

I think my strategy was, let's hit it where kind of the fairway ends so that it will get a kick to the right and maybe get on to the green. I wasn't super comfortable with landing something front of green or in that little valley or whatever.

Yeah, I don't know. I hit 5-wood on the ShotLink. I hit it maybe a bit too good because I think it landed in the rough, and then it was still fine. It still took the kick to the right and then made up-and-down for birdie.

I think had I not been hitting the ball well, I probably would have chosen to do something a bit more safe. But yeah, it wasn't even in my mind to lay up or something like that.

Q. Is the mindset shift the impending motherhood that you were talking about earlier this week? Or did you talk to --

DEWI WEBER: No, I think it's something that I've been trying to do for a while. I think maybe, A, motherhood; B, turning 30 has something to do with that. I don't know. I said on Thursday, I've been evaluating my life and my choices a bit more.

But no, it's something that I've been working towards, and I think honestly not even this week but last week something in me kind of clicked.

I think it's through a lot of talking with friends, with professionals and kind of getting me to see it from the other side that now I'm able to do it.

Honestly, I was able to do it last week and I missed the cut, but I still really liked the way that I was playing and the way I felt on the golf course. So yes and no.

Q. You birdied 14, 16, 17. Is it possible to ride that momentum? I know it's another day, but finishing like that, does that give you -- can you bring that momentum into Sunday?

DEWI WEBER: I'd like to. I think for me, it's more -- sorry, it's a very boring answer, but it's more, yeah, I made a lot of putts and I made birdies coming into the final stretch, but never once did I think, like, oh, now we're going to make a birdie or now we're going to stick it close. I was just hitting every shot to the best of my abilities and not really thinking about the consequences.

I think the last part of that, the not think about the consequences, is what allowed me to play so freely and be in that mindset that I was talking to Juan about.

Yeah, I'd like to ride that momentum, but I think the momentum for me looks less like I'm going to make a lot of birdies and more like I really like the way I am swinging freely and putting freely right now because when I do that, evidently good things happen.

Q. How are you framing the Solheim Cup potential in your home country in your mind?

DEWI WEBER: I mean, A, really cool that we're finally hosting that, and Bernardus is such a cool venue, I think. By far the best golf course the Netherlands has to offer. Facilities are insane. Solheim Cup in the Netherlands, awesome. It's not something that's on my mind or it hasn't really been this whole season in the sense that yeah, I'd like to play or I'd like to be involved in some way. But if I go out every tournament thinking, oh, if I play really well this week then maybe so-and-so will happen, it's just kind of setting me up for failure. Just the way my brain works.

Again, I'd like to think just about whatever the shot is that is in front of me and how I'm going to execute that and then we'll see where I end up on the leaderboard this week and we'll see where I am on the leaderboard at Evian and so forth.

Q. You mentioned earlier this week and even earlier in this interview the life-changing news that you talked about earlier this week. Have you been able to get your head around how life changing it would be to win this event, as well?

DEWI WEBER: No, for the same reason that Solheim Cup is not something I try to think about that much. Would it be life changing? Yeah, sure, it would, and I'm not going to deny that. But me thinking about the thousand different scenarios that could play out tomorrow isn't super helpful for me. What is super helpful is, again, doing the things that I've been doing on the golf course.

So yes, absolutely life changing in terms of, like, winning your first event, winning a major, life-changing in terms of money because KPMG put so much money in this purse, and this event is awesome. But again, does it really help me thinking about that? Not really. Ask me again tomorrow afternoon.