U.S SENIOR WOMEN'S OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP

August 26, 2022

JoAnne Carner

NCR Country Club

Quick Quotes

Q. How do you wrap up these two days?

JOANNE CARNER: That's what I did, I wrapped them up, but I didn't wrap them in a good enough package. I just fought it all day, and I couldn't hit the shot when I wanted. Just simple shots, three-quarter 7 or something like that. So I was fighting it all day.

Q. Did you have fun?

JOANNE CARNER: No, but I'm going to very shortly.

Q. Will we see you next year?

JOANNE CARNER: No.

Q. For real?

JOANNE CARNER: It was too hard work this year trying to get my game in shape. But I won't let it go that bad to begin with.

Q. If this is really it, just kind of sum up your career competing, playing competitive golf.

JOANNE CARNER: Sum it up? Have you got an hour? I've had a fantastic career. Starting public links golf, daughter of a carpenter and a housewife, and used to hunt golf balls to pay for golf and take the neighbor kids to the movies and whatnot.

Then from there, you start taking a club to knock the weeds down to hunt the golf balls, and from there, we could play at this little nine-hole public golf course after the paying customers, so I learned to play moonlight golf with two of my sisters played at that time when I was young, and then the neighbor boys.

From there, just progressed.

Q. What has it meant to be able to come back the last four or five years and play in the Senior Women's Open?

JOANNE CARNER: Well, I waited for the Senior Open forever. I had a chance to set the record for USGA wins, and for 20 years they had the men's Senior but never the women's, so I missed out on 20 years of play.

Q. What does it mean to you to be able to say goodbye at this championship?

JOANNE CARNER: I never say goodbye, but goodbye!

Q. If asked, would you be interested in coming back as a starter?

JOANNE CARNER: No.

Q. Is this moment somewhat bittersweet, that this might indeed be your last championship?

JOANNE CARNER: No, not at all, uh-uh. No, I've enjoyed everything about it, even my bad golf. I mean, I was trying just like in the old days, only it really just wasn't there.

But the friendships and everything, it's great.

Q. What are you most proud of in your career?

JOANNE CARNER: Well, everything. But right now my age, I guess. Shooting my age, which is terrible. It is. I do better than that at home.

Q. Yet a lot of people have celebrated that and are inspired by that.

JOANNE CARNER: Well, yeah, I get a lot of people talking to me as I play, even the players all congratulate me. I'm not very enthusiastic about it because I shot 83. But it's nice to hear from them.