LPGA MEDIHEAL CHAMPIONSHIP

October 6, 2022

Lindy Duncan

The Saticoy Club

Quick Quotes

Q. Okay, here with Lindy Duncan after her first round, and another really good round from you. You've been playing really consistent. Had a good week last week. How have you adjusted your game from last week on this course and kept things consistent?

LINDY DUNCAN: That's a great question. I'm trying to figure that out as I go. Basically it's just trying to keep hitting fairways and greens. The greens out here are super tricky, (wind) so a lot of chances and missed a bunch, and my caddie, Kyle, and I were very committed to just like trying to hit good putts, let them go wherever. You know, (Wind interference.)

Q. Your front nine was your back nine today, right?

LINDY DUNCAN: We started on --

Q. No. So you started on the front nine. Good. Then on the back nine I saw you went on a little run there from 13 through 16. That was going well there? Lots of birdies in a row?

LINDY DUNCAN: Yeah, I hit a great 5-iron to like eight feet on the par-3. Then my whole group hit it on the par-5 in two. I had a 5-wood. Hit to two probably like 25 feet; two-putted that.

Next hole I had gap wedge. I hit it to three feet. That one almost lipped out. I'm lucky that one dropped.

And then the next hole again had a gap wedge and hit it to about four feet.

Q. What is so difficult about these greens out here? How important is it going to be to just make par and make putts?

LINDY DUNCAN: They're just really tough to read and there is lots of extreme slopes, so if you have a putt where you're sort of at a 90 degree angle to the slope, it can really kind of get away from you.

So you have to play a lot more break than I'm used to visually seeing.

Q. How familiar are you with the Southern California courses similar to this?

LINDY DUNCAN: Not at all. Just happy to shoot an under par round and just trying to hit fairways and greens. Yeah, I've always struggled in California.

Q. Why is that? Is it the grasses?

LINDY DUNCAN: I think so. And I think it's just I feel very off balance in this mountainy canyon type terrain.

I just feel how do you say, like discombobulated. I'm used to flat.

Q. So how do you carry this momentum into tomorrow? Same game plan?

LINDY DUNCAN: Yeah, I hope to keep a good swing feel and try to hit greens.