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March 13, 2022

Danielle Kang

Siam Country Club Pattaya, Old Course

Quick Quotes

Q. So I know you've had a bunch of hole-in-ones like out for fun, but this is your first hole in one in competition since 2014?

DANIELLE KANG: Yes.

Q. Awesome.

DANIELLE KANG: I thought it was on a car hole actually, but it was very misleading to be a car on the hole.

Q. Got you. Sorry, no.

DANIELLE KANG: It is part of my interview. It was very misleading to have a car on the hole because we all thought I won that car.

Even Gina was like, Can I please have the car, because she lives in Thailand.

But then on 16 is says hole-in-one, so I was like, I don't know if this is...

Q. Bit of display there unfortunately, sorry.

DANIELLE KANG: Yeah.

Q. But 9-iron I heard.

DANIELLE KANG: 9-iron, 132.

Q. Did you see it go in?

DANIELLE KANG: Yes, I did.

Q. (Indiscernible.)

DANIELLE KANG: Oh, no, some fans got it. They sent it to me on my phone. It's actually a streak now that Golf Channel has missed -- or like whoever is airing has missed my hole in one, so no one has actually seen it live, and this is my 14th hole in one.

Actually no one has seen it on repeat.

Q. Really?

DANIELLE KANG: On camera. So it was really cool because I had a lot of like thoughts running through my head and I had a feeling. Like I don't know. It just -- I was like I even said, I need some luck here.

Q. Really?

DANIELLE KANG: Yeah, because I couldn't make a lot putts out here. I hit the ball phenomenally the last four days. Unfortunately it wasn't my -- my short game wasn't my forte the past two weeks, and it's okay.

Positive things, I'm hit ting it really well and really consistency, so I'm really happy about that.

And then all I thought was like I think I'm due for a hole-out. Might as well just do it here. And then I saw it tracking and then I went, No way.

It landed and I was like, No way. Because normally sometimes it sits. It's soft out here. I was like, Wait a second, it's actually rolling. And it went, No way, and it went in and everyone screamed.

We had a huge crowd. Hometown kind of favorite, Atthaya was playing with us. It was really cool.

Q. And it's $20,000 to St. Jude to help take care of kids.

DANIELLE KANG: Nice, that's awesome. Yeah they said I've donated I think --

Q. You donated yourself in the past.

DANIELLE KANG: $26,000 or something. I don't know how much I've donated myself. Yeah, it's really awesome.

Thank you for CME Group to be able to support St. Jude and support the children in need. Feel like that's a pretty cool cause.

Do I get a shirt at least, because everyone gets like the St. Jude shirt and I never got one?

Q. We'll work on that.

DANIELLE KANG: Okay, cool.