LPGA Q-SERIES

December 1, 2022

Riley Rennell

Magnolia Grove

Quick Quotes

Q. Did you go to college to play golf? If so, where did you go?

RILEY RENNELL: I did not, but I was going to commit and I was going to go to University of Georgia. But I had a weird birthday so I was 18 my senior year of high school, so that year I was able to play in Q-School, so I got good Epson Tour status.

So I played, and when I needed to finish up in U.S. Am and things like that like when I was still amateur, and then I turned pro.

Q. What is your career-best finish and/or your biggest accomplishment so far in your career?

RILEY RENNELL: Career-best finish was solo second in the Epson Tour Championship at 22-under.

And another one of my best accomplishments was inaugural year at Augusta National. Got to the finals and I came in third overall, but I was the first like woman to be like I guess at Augusta to compete. I won the long drive at Augusta National, so that was fun.

Q. Awesome. And then what is your career-best round?

RILEY RENNELL: Career-best round was 63. It was in a professional Cactus event.

Q. And then why did you decide to pursue professional golf as a career and why are you out here every day playing?

RILEY RENNELL: So I was introduced to the game by my dad, who he's a golf professional also. I've been around it since I could walk, so I just saw all the cool kids playing golf and that's kind of how I picked it up.

Just I got better and better and decided it was something that I wanted to pursue, so that's how I got here.

Q. And then what do you do for fun? What are your hobbies off the golf course?

RILEY RENNELL: For 15 years I have been a martial artist, so I'm a fourth degree Black Belt in taekwondo. I'm into MMA and martial arts. Done that for a long time.

Then I'm also a painter and illustrator.

Q. And then if you weren't -- this is the hard one -- if you weren't a professional golfer what do you think you would be doing for a job?

RILEY RENNELL: Probably either like one of my hobbies. I would be a taekwondo teacher or competing in taekwondo or some type of illustrator or something like that, professional artist.