LPGA Q-SERIES

December 12, 2021

Pauline Roussin-Bouchard

Magnolia Grove

Quick Quotes

Q. All right, here with Pauline Roussin Bouchard, probably the star of Q-School this year. I mean, got your LPGA Tour card in hand. What are some of the emotions right now?

PAULINE ROUSSIN-BOUCHARD: Well, if you ask me two weeks before if I'm going to be second, runner-up at Q-School and have my LPGA card I would've signed straightaway.

I'm just very happy. I'm not really allowed to say that, but I'm kind of frustrated of the last round. I guess it's because I'm a competitor and I love competition and all that.

But I had a couple friends stopping me from getting mad and be like, Dude you have your LPGA card. Like that's what you wanted. So I'm just focusing on that right now and I can't wait for what's coming.

Q. It's going to be from my count you Agathe, Celine, and nest year on the LPGA representing France. What does that mean to represent France in this capacity and represent it very well?

PAULINE ROUSSIN-BOUCHARD: It's huge. We have been representing our country since we were probably 13, 14 in the French team, but it was at another level, under 18 and then ladies, and so now it's just a different aspect of it.

It's just like you reach the top of representing your country. So I guess it's just super exciting.

Q. If someone told you as soon as you turned pro that just a few months later you would have your LPGA card in hand what would have said?

PAULINE ROUSSIN-BOUCHARD: I would have said, okay, but it's not done yet. Like it's very rough two weeks. I mean, it's a huge tournament, and so just you have to be ready during these two weeks, which is very hard, because you can have the most wonderful season of all-time and have a bad week and then -- I was going to say screwed, but you're kind of screwed like for your LPGA card or to have that.

So I was just -- I didn't want to -- I don't know how to say in English, but there is a French saying you don't sell the fur of the bear before killing the bear. So it's kind of, yeah, you just don't say something you can't really predict. So I was just focusing on practicing and all that.

Q. What's the biggest thing you learned about yourself in the past few months?

PAULINE ROUSSIN-BOUCHARD: That's a tough question. I don't know. I don't know. I have absolutely no idea. Right now I'm just -- I'm mean, to be honest, on the short-term there is going to be a lot to learn from this day, like today, even as frustrated as it was. There's going to be a lot to learn from it, and to get ready for bigger tournaments, and so I guess it's not only the last few months or weeks.

I think it's what helped meet last two weeks was just everything I've been working on for the last probably ten years.

And so, yeah, it's just my entire dictionary of experience what helped me.

Q. How do you feel like your college experience has helped shape you as a player?

PAULINE ROUSSIN-BOUCHARD: I think it was very important because it's -- it allows me to remain the same person I am and not like let my result influence who I am and all that.

And so plus, I mean, I have really, really good friends and they just give me balance. So it's a place where I feel home, and the people make me feel home, and I think it's very important between tournaments to go back and reset with the people you love.

And even if my family is not there, I mean, I have really good friends and very good people, nice people to be with and so, yeah.

Q. What are you most looking forward to about the LPGA Tour next year? That's a loaded question.

PAULINE ROUSSIN-BOUCHARD: I don't know. To be honest, just the entire adventure, the entire journey. I feel like a page -- how do you say that, I'm turning a page, so it's either a new chapter or just keep going what I've been doing, which is going to be about that, but on different tournaments, different, yeah, just different scale, different tournaments. It's just going to be so cool.