THE AMUNDI EVIAN CHAMPIONSHIP

July 22, 2022

Nelly Korda

Evian Resort Golf Club

Quick Quotes

Q. Talk us through how you saved the best for last down 18, that second shot.

NELLY KORDA: Yeah, yesterday I was struggling with the ball below my feet. I was kind of hitting it out right I told myself, I'm going to aim a little bit more left, and I did actually fade it out to the right, and thank God I aimed a little left and just turned out perfect.

Q. Ten straight pars to start. You looked like you were ready to go when I caught you on the 11th. Talk to us about the mental battle today as opposed to yesterday where everything was just kind of flowing. You looked really patient.

NELLY KORDA: Yeah, you're my good luck charm. I don't know. I think the pins are in a bit trickier spots today. I was hitting solid shots. I wasn't hit it as good as yesterday. Maybe hitting it as close, but I was still hitting solid putts.

Honestly, they were kind of stress-free pars, and finally got one going on 11 and kind of kick started my day a little.

Q. Quick turnaround. Got the afternoon off. What does the rest of the day look like for you?

NELLY KORDA: A nap. 100% a nap. I barely slept last night. I don't know what it is this year, but I'm really struggling with jet lag.

Q. Well you earned a nap today.

NELLY KORDA: Thank you.

Q. It was a quiet opener to your day today.

NELLY KORDA: Yeah.

Q. When did you turn it on on the back nine? What changed?

NELLY KORDA: On No. 11 I finally got one in. I hit it good, too. Gave myself a pretty good look. The looks I got had a lot of breaks, too, so they weren't easy putts.

So I finally had just like a left to righter that barely broke, and committed to my line and rolled it in.

Unfortunately I made my first bogey today of the week, but I backed it up with a good birdie.

Overall, I'm pretty happy with the way I'm playing. I hope to capitalize more on the par-5s going into the weekend. I think that's where I've kind of struggled a little.

I've given myself really good opportunities around the greens; just haven't kind of chipped it up close. I'm hoping that is something I improve on going into the weekend.

Q. But then the last hole, I know you gave Ally the description and we got that, but what was the club and yardage in?

NELLY KORDA: That's a good question about yardage, but I had a 5-hybrid in and I had 192. I tried to kind of control a hybrid in because it wasn't really sitting that great in the first cut. It was kind of sitting a little down, and I didn't really want to crush a 5-iron because I did not want to repeat what I did yesterday. Rather go long.

Q. You kept your feet dry this time.

NELLY KORDA: Yes.

Q. Then how long was the putt?

NELLY KORDA: The putt, probably like two and a half feet.

Q. Nice. Good way to finish a round.

NELLY KORDA: Yeah, nice; stress-free.

Q. Pin positions looked really tricky out there today. Looking at 15, holy crap with the ridge there. Golf course, a lot slope. We know this. How do you adjust when the pins are really tucked in those corners? You seemed to handle 18 okay.

NELLY KORDA: Yeah, I mean, sometimes you just -- unfortunately like you have to know where to miss. Sometimes obviously you don't miss where you want to or hit it where you want to and you come up with a tricky putt.

That's just Evian. Everyone is going to have that. That's the defense of this golf course, is you never have a flat lie and you're putting over a lot of ridges.

So I think they made the pin positions a little harder and we'll see how this afternoon goes, but I think I played well with the course setup.

Q. I know you said obviously this hasn't been your best finishing tournament in recent years. How good does it feel to get two really solid rounds under your belt?

NELLY KORDA: Really good. Honestly, super good. A little pat on my back after two days hopefully it keeps going that way.