TRUST GOLF WOMEN'S SCOTTISH OPEN

August 12, 2021

Michele Thomson

Dumbarnie Links

Quick Quotes

Q. What a round, you start off with a bogey and then you just turned it around. Talk about how you started.

MICHELE THOMSON: Probably had a little bit of a nervous start I would say. Obviously being at The Scottish Open, it's my fourth one now but obviously still got the nerves off the first tee and hit a bit of a ropey drive and just made bogey from there which was fine.

Stood up on the second tee and just restarted, hit a great drive down the middle and had 240 and just thought, I've got adrenaline here, just going to go for it and hit it on, made eagle and from there it snowballed from there and hit a lot of good wedges into holes and drove well off the tee. The only shot really I missed all day was probably my drive at the first, and yeah, it was just one of those nice rounds.

Q. What did you do or say to yourself to reset?

MICHELE THOMSON: Well, obviously I'm experienced enough now to know that it's only the first hole and just kind of bring it back and kind of breathe a little bit because you can probably go down the first hole knowing you've held your breath the whole way. I just wanted to reset and made eagle which got me back to under par straight way and just played great from there.

Q. The feedback I've had from the players, they said the back nine is harder than the front nine; do you feel that?

MICHELE THOMSON: Not sure, just hit good shot. You've got No. 10, really tough hole, and I've hit two really good shots and hit really good shots. Just going through my process every time. Holed a few good putts and yeah, 7-under.

Q. Coming into this week, did you feel like you were playing well? You were in Spain last week?

MICHELE THOMSON: I had an enjoyable time last week, the team finished seventh, but I've had quite a tough time with dad in Finland obviously and just kind of haven't been concentrating on my golf but that just shows me that golf's just golf and just get on with it and whatever happens, that's life.