ISPS HANDA WORLD INVITATIONAL

August 13, 2022

Peiyun Chien

Galgorm Castle & Massereene Golf Club

Quick Quotes

Q. How is the course playing and how do you think it suits your eye?

PEIYUN CHIEN: The course is very firm this afternoon. I play with Georgia so I learn a lot from her. She's pretty consistent. Not a lot of emotions.

Q. What is it that you learned from Georgia that you just touched upon there?

PEIYUN CHIEN: Georgia? Her putting is really aggressive, so I just change my putting stroke this week. Just putt softer. It helps.

Q. And I've been told that you also worked quite a lot on your mental game. You're someone that's quite hard on yourself. What do you do to help yourself out, especially like this when you're at the top?

PEIYUN CHIEN: I have a lot of experience like calm down a lot of times, and I learned in the back nine before, like ten minutes just breathing with stomach, and just try to be calm and not very hyper on every single shot. That's what I learn.

Q. If someone says I'm going to try and be calm, sometimes it's very difficult to do, especially when the pressure is high. Especially coming down those final few stretches. Do you do anything physically just to really help you nail that down?

PEIYUN CHIEN: Just breathe very deep in your stomach, like very deep. Talk with my caddie. Drink more water. Just don't think about golf. Just watch -- a lot of (indiscernible) around here, so, yeah.

Q. Here with Peiyun Chien. Just overall what were some of your expectations and what you got out of today's round?

PEIYUN CHIEN: I got 3-under today, so I got six birdies which was I think to me is very good, because I always have pressure with my final round.

Q. Take me through some of that on your front nine, of how were you able to recover, especially from the double bogey.

PEIYUN CHIEN: I've been try to just come in every shot and putt everything closer I can and try to do simple. Like just say it and putt it. So I think it really help me.

Q. You talked about decompressing before getting to the back nine. How much do you think that helped you as you were able to close out today?

PEIYUN CHIEN: I would say after that double I just forget it and keep breathing, talk with my caddie. It just really helped me to just forget it and relax my shoulder.

So I think I'm doing very well.

Q. You only just met your caddie through Catriona Matthew's husband, correct?

PEIYUN CHIEN: Yes, we met in North Berwick, which was for The Open qualify, so he's really helpful. Thank you, Catriona Matthew.

Q. Being able to close out with a birdie on the final how, how satisfied are you with that as you head into tomorrow?

PEIYUN CHIEN: It really help for confidence. Tomorrow start again first hole, so I will try play hard every shot. Hit to the flag.