LPGA DRIVE ON CHAMPIONSHIP

March 24, 2023

Emily Kristine Pedersen

Superstition Mountain Golf and Country Club

Quick Quotes

Q. All right, here with Emily Kristine Pedersen. Figured out some things on the golf course today and played really well. Just walk me through your round.

EMILY KRISTINE PEDERSEN: Yes, I would say pretty solid. I think I hit nine fairways and then 16 greens and 28 putts, so pretty solid all the way around.

Obviously there is -- you always feel like you leave something out there, but I think everyone does.

Q. Ball striking, obviously this golf course doesn't have a lot of teeth in it, but it's a fast greens kind of thing. What was working so well today with the irons?

EMILY KRISTINE PEDERSEN: I just think really consistent, like I had a lot of like ten, twelve feet chances, and then whenever I missed one I didn't miss it like big so it was somewhat of an easy up and down I would say, which kept the bogeys off the card which was obviously really key to keep momentum going today.

Q. Been playing some good golf. I feel like I've talked to quite a bit. What's been work so well?

EMILY KRISTINE PEDERSEN: I don't know. Maybe I'm a bit more mature. I don't know. Coming up there in the years out here, but I think I worked a lot on my short game and obviously knowing that I'm better in that kind of takes a little bit of pressure off my long game.

Also I feel like the putting is going better, which was like kind of what I feel like in the past stopped me, because every time I missed a green I wouldn't get up and down and would kill the momentum.

I feel like I'm a little more solid on and around the greens, which takes the pressure off the long game a little bit.

Q. 29 putts. Not bad. How are you going to try to get that number less the next couple days?

EMILY KRISTINE PEDERSEN: Try and holed some more putts.

Q. Obviously.

EMILY KRISTINE PEDERSEN: I think just keep plotting away. Maybe read them -- I don't know. Just hoping some more drop.

I feel like I'm doing the right things. It's just getting those reads narrowed down and trying and hold them.

Q. Anything about the greens this week in particular that's giving a challenge?

EMILY KRISTINE PEDERSEN: They're definitely quicker, like super quick, and then I think sometimes they can be a little bit tricky because they're like -- they're quite slopey but look quite flat, so sometimes it like messes with my mind a little bit.

I think just plotting I way and the more time you spend on the greens the more I feel like I get used to them. So that's good.