MARATHON CLASSIC PRESENTED BY DANA

August 7, 2020

Louise Ridderstrom

Quick Quotes

Q. Let's walk through this hole-in-one here. What were you talking about with your caddie this week and what went into that marvelous ace?

LOUISE RIDDERSTROM: Well, you know what? My ball striking hasn't been on pointe this week. However, on hole No. 8 we had a pretty good number in 138. That's a pretty nice normal stock 8-iron for me. Basically I just asked him, Where we trying to end up here? And he said, Just go straight at it. That's what I did. (Laughter.)

Yeah, hit it really solid and I think it just rolled in.

Q. Would consider yourself someone who usually goes for the pins?

LOUISE RIDDERSTROM: You know what? It depends week after week how I feel. Sometimes you stand over a shot and you just have that feeling that I can do this, and other times you feel a little bit more conservative and you are not firing at as many pins.

So I would say that's from day to day, week to week.

Q. Your 1st hole-in-one on the LPGA Tour. Was it a little different without being able to celebrate with the people around you in your group?

LOUISE RIDDERSTROM: That was a little different for sure. Well, all my other hole in ones that I have done, which is -- this was my fifth one, so it's not like anything crazy -- there were no crowds there either really.

So it would've been a nice experience to see what it would've been like with crowds, but still felt pretty awesome.

Q. With that, every hole-in-one this year is obviously $20,000 to St. Jude because of the CME Group Cares Challenge. What does that mean to you to know that all you have to do is make an ace, and a donation like this goes to something like St. Jude?

LOUISE RIDDERSTROM: I think that's awesome. I'm very happy that we have something like that. Knowing that I actually did something that can help people today, that feels amazing. I feel even better about it.