PURE SILK CHAMPIONSHIP PRESENTED BY VISIT WILLIAMSBURG

May 20, 2021

Stacy Lewis

Kingsmill River Course

Quick Quotes

Q. Slow start, hot finish.

STACY LEWIS: Uh-huh.

Q. Take us through the two nines.

STACY LEWIS: Actually hit it pretty well on both sides. Actual back nine they moved a lot of tees back so just had a lot of long clubs in, where the front nine was playing a little shorter so you could make a few more birdies.

Played really solid and made a couple par putts, two lip-outs for birdies, but other than that it was good.

Q. This golf course is so much different than what we play throughout the course of the year.

STACY LEWIS: Uh-huh.

Q. Firmer, faster.

STACY LEWIS: Yeah.

Q. How difficult is it to make the transition coming into this?

STACY LEWIS: You have to throw all your past knowledge out the window and play it as it's playing. (Indiscernible) made the comment today, around the greens you see kind of more violent bounces as you hit -- if you hit the edge of the greens where the rough would've just gobbled it up before.

Your misses are a little bigger, but you can get it down there closer to the greens. It's kind of a little bit of...

Q. And the rough, while half an inch or so, it looks a little thin. Are you getting any jumps out of there?

STACY LEWIS: Really wasn't in much of the rough today, but there is not much rough. There is really not. You can kind of use the rough, use the hills and stuff to your advantage more, where in the past you would be stuck on a sidehill lie.

So it's just different. It's probably more links-y just to get into a different mindset.

Q. This is our last stroke play before the U.S. Women's Open. How much of a prep for that is this?

STACY LEWIS: I think any time you're playing it's a prep for a U.S. Open. Any time you got make five and six footers for pars. The greens are quick, which is great. We're going to see it out there.

But really this week is not much prep for the U.S. Open. Different grass, different temperature, different everything.

So I am just trying to keep working on little things and trying to peak here in a couple weeks.

Q. You had a solid group.

STACY LEWIS: Uh-huh.

Q. How much more enjoyable does that make the round?

STACY LEWIS: I mean, Amy is awesome to play with all the time and I love playing with May. I was so happy for her to get that win a couple weeks ago. You could see it. Kind of has -- her shoulders are down a little bit. She's a little bit happier. So it was fun today.

Q. Weight of a nation off her shoulders.

STACY LEWIS: Yes, yes for sure.