NW ARKANSAS CHAMPIONSHIP

September 24, 2021

Ariya Jutanugarn

Pinnacle Country Club

Quick Quotes

Q. Ariya Jutanugarn, a bogey-free 5-under par today. Take us through how good it felt to put that round together after maybe one of your tougher weeks last week.

ARIYA JUTANUGARN: Feel so much better because like I have really tough week last week. Kind of everywhere. Just tried to put everything back together, so I feel like everything seemed like looking better.

Q. What did you learn or take away from last week to maybe move forward but also just kind of forget about it as well?

ARIYA JUTANUGARN: You know, we just have to understand that we can have bad week any week. It's happen last week. You know, I don't feel like my swing is like in the right place, so this week just I have to focus on what I want to work on, get my feeling back.

And I try so hard like last two days so my feeling kind of getting better.

Q. Was it nice to have just a three-day tournament here this week, a Friday start, to have an extra day to work on things, and what did you work on?

ARIYA JUTANUGARN: You know, I feel pretty lucky we start the tournament on Friday so I have like more days to work on my swing or my feeling. Mainly I just work on my mood, because I feel like if I can put mental in the right place everything is going to get better.

Q. What's your mentality when you approach a three-day tournament versus a four-day tournament? What's your mentality?

ARIYA JUTANUGARN: What's that mean?

Q. How do you approach, play different in a three-day tournament versus a four-day tournament?

ARIYA JUTANUGARN: I never think I play different between three days or four days. I feel I do the same thing: Keep working on my stuff and have better commitment.

To me three day and four days not much different.

Q. Maybe a little quicker race to the finish or not too much? Like a three-day tournament may be a quicker race, a sprint to the finish, like you don't have a day where -- like a day you --

ARIYA JUTANUGARN: (Indiscernible.)

Q. Yeah, exactly.

ARIYA JUTANUGARN: I don't -- you know, I never think about that way. I feel like to me it's just go out every day and do my best. That's the goal.

Q. That's easy. I love that.