HSBC WOMEN'S WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

March 5, 2022

Atthaya Thitikul

Sentosa Golf Club

Quick Quotes

Q. So beautiful play today. Can you just take me through your round?

ATTHAYA THITIKUL: Well, I mean, it's -- it's a good round, then. Not my A game, but I'll take it all because I can bounce back for under-par in the back nine. So it was good.

Q. And how have you dealt with the conditions? It's been very hot the last few days. Is there anything that you do to prepare or just to get through it?

ATTHAYA THITIKUL: Yeah, it's like a lot of energy drink that I bring from Thailand. So that it's good. That's why I bring it. And, yeah, just hydrate and get my towel on my head.

Q. Do you feel like you're kind of used to these sorts of conditions?

ATTHAYA THITIKUL: Not at all. Not at all. I mean, I'm from Thailand, but I will say I'm not get used to it at all.

Q. And is there anything that you can take over the last few days? You've played really well. And what do you want to go into tomorrow thinking, and how are you going to prepare?

ATTHAYA THITIKUL: Yeah, I mean, I think everything, it's -- I want to keep everything the same as it's been now because I think now it's good, but it's not like that good. But I know it's -- I'll take it all, what I have been through now. But just want just, you know, like give myself a lot of chance to make a birdie.

Q. And it's very early on in the season. Do you have any short-term goals you want to sort of take on in the next few weeks or any long-term goals for the season?

ATTHAYA THITIKUL: Well, I mean, I'm trying to get better every single day as a player and as a human being as well.

Q. Important.

ATTHAYA THITIKUL: Yeah, important. And having set the goal like that long, just like keep improve my game, which part I can, and, yeah.

Q. Do you sort of know what you want to improve on, or is there anything that's in your mind you think, oh, that's what I need to work on? Or are you kind of just taking it as it is?

ATTHAYA THITIKUL: Yeah, it's a lot of thing that I have to work on, in and off the course. I mean, in the course, I have to, like, mentally as well and physically as well. My game has to improve, obviously, yes. But outside the course, was like my mindsets, something like that. Yeah.

Q. Yeah. A lot of people talk about staying calm on the golf course and keeping a clear head. Is that something you sort embody on the course?

ATTHAYA THITIKUL: Yeah, I mean, I'm not a like serious person. I'm like a funny, keep smiling, laughing all the time.

Q. So that helps, yeah.

ATTHAYA THITIKUL: Yeah. So I want to take it out in the golf course as well, yeah.