VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA LPGA TEXAS CLASSIC

July 2, 2021

Esther Henseleit

Old American Golf Club

Quick Quotes

Q. 1-under 70 on day two of the Volunteers of America Classic. You had three birdies on the day at number 10 and then 3 and 5. Take us through a few of those and how those helped you shoot under par today.

ESTHER HENSELEIT: Yeah, I started pretty good. I started on 10, hit a good drive, hit it to like two meters and holed the putt. So that was a nice start of the day.

Then I didn't play my best golf over the next few holes and only had my next birdie on the 3rd, so like 12 holes later, which was a par-3. I hit it pretty close.

And the next one was also on a par-3.

So, yeah, that was the three birdies.

Q. I would imagine the course played a little longer today than yesterday. How much -- we had 1.66 inches of rain today, how much longer did it play, how much more challenging was it out there than yesterday?

ESTHER HENSELEIT: It definitely was way more challenging. The drives were just shorter and the pin positions were harder and you also had like longer clubs into the greens. So definitely played much harder today.

Q. What did you do to spend your time during the six-hour delay? Maybe both enjoy some of the down time and also try to stay as focused as possible?

ESTHER HENSELEIT: Yeah, I went back home to the hotel. I had two naps. I watched some of the Euros, the football in Europe. So, yeah, that's how I spent my day. I wanted it to be a bit different, but, yeah, that's how it is and everyone had to deal with it.

Q. Which game did you watch?

ESTHER HENSELEIT: It was Spain against Switzerland.

Q. Good game?

ESTHER HENSELEIT: Yeah, but sadly I couldn't see the penalties in the end. So, yeah, I didn't see the end. But I had to play golf, so, yeah.

Q. How thankful are you to have finished round two and to not have to exert your focus on coming back early tomorrow, you can just focus on making a jump up the leaderboard on the weekend?

ESTHER HENSELEIT: Yeah, definitely. I mean, I'm going to sleep a lot tonight. It's been a long day and, yeah, I hope that I can get some rest and come here tomorrow and shoot a low round and, yeah.