TRUST GOLF WOMEN'S SCOTTISH OPEN

July 26, 2022

Emily Kristine Pedersen

Dundonald Links

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Q. Back on your side of the pond, haven't seen you since KPMG. What have you been doing while you've been back in Europe?

EMILY KRISTINE PEDERSEN: I've been practising and then I went to play an LET event in Spain the week before Dow and just been resting a bit, practising, enjoying the European summer and now here in Scotland.

Q. European summer here in Scotland feels like a mild Spanish winter, really chilly here. What are you looking forward to most teeing it up in Scotland this week?

EMILY KRISTINE PEDERSEN: I like to play in the difficult conditions here. I always love The Scottish Open and these on the U.K. side, it's a challenge and it's about patience and being creative. It's something that challenges me and it's something that I'm always looking very much forward to.

Q. How does your game suit this kind of weather and these kind of conditions?

EMILY KRISTINE PEDERSEN: If my ball-striking is well, it suits it really well. If I hit a couple off-line in the wind, it's obviously going to be an issue but I'm hitting the ball pretty well at the moment. So I'm hoping that it's going to be to my advantage.

Q. You have a special crowd of people coming to watch you in Scotland this week. Tell me about that.

EMILY KRISTINE PEDERSEN: Yeah, my grandmother is coming for the first time ever to watch me play. So she's excited. She's been packing for two weeks. She's never watched me play before. She's only followed on the TV and the live scoring and she's coming long with my parents. It's going to be really special to have her here, and I'm going to try to be on my absolute best behavior. She's 83.

Q. To be this age and still have a grandparent and one that wants to come all the way down and watch you play golf for hopefully 72 holes, how much does that mean to you?

EMILY KRISTINE PEDERSEN: It means a lot. It means a lot to be able to share this with her. She's super fit and she loves walking and she goes to the jazz club. My biggest concern is that if the wind gets really up because she's not a big lady, so if she's going to blow away or if she's going to keep up. I think she'll do fine. She's a cool lady.

Q. You came back out to the LPGA Tour this season. How with you assess your season overall?

EMILY KRISTINE PEDERSEN: It's obviously great to be back. It was a big goal of mine when I lost status to get back. I haven't played my greatest unfortunately. Still trying to find my feet, and I think maybe been putting a little too much pressure on myself to kind of prove that I'm back or be out there again. I'm trying to step down and think about what went well in 2020 when I played really good and gained my card back and everything.

Yeah, just trying to focus on playing golf and not about proving anything. Trying to believe that I'm actually good enough. So it's just been trying to work a little bit on that these past few weeks.

Q. You played the LET event over in Spain. Do those LET reps help with you that confidence; that you actually belong here kind of feeling?

EMILY KRISTINE PEDERSEN: Yeah, it does. I think it's good to support the Tour that I started on, and I would always love to have like a connection to the LET and play as much as I can. But obviously the LPGA is hopefully going to be the main tour for the rest of my career.

But every time I have a gap or a chance to go play on the LET, I want to because it means a lot to me there. So I think it's good to be able to play both.

Q. Obviously we have a major next week, but this week, you can maybe get into that major next week. Besides the obvious, we all want to win, what are some of your goals this week in Scotland?

EMILY KRISTINE PEDERSEN: Well, I would like to be able to obviously play somewhat in the top of the field. I have quite a good record at The Scottish Open. I lost in a playoff to Stacy a couple years ago, and I like it here.

So hopefully I can put myself up there and then I would also like to qualify for next week, is definitely one of the goals to see if that's a possibility.