THE CHEVRON CHAMPIONSHIP

April 22, 2023

Angel Yin

The Club at Carlton Woods

Quick Quotes

Q. Here with Angel Yin after her third round at The Chevron Championship heading into the final day in the final group. How excited, nervous do you feel about that?

ANGEL YIN: I feel pretty calm for tomorrow. I just want to go home and lay down. I'm really tired.

Q. You had a long day today; tell us about starting this morning and how that impacted your play this afternoon.

ANGEL YIN: I started out really early. I was walking down 16, I was like, wow, I feel like I've been here before. Oh, I did. I was just here this morning.

I think it really helped me warm up my body early in the morning. Though I'm tired, my body has been like swinging, turning around since 7:00 in the morning. I think it really helped.

Q. What did you do in between your break?

ANGEL YIN: I took a nap.

Q. Did you really?

ANGEL YIN: I took a 20-minute nap. I took a 25 -- because I was stressed I was going to miss my tee time, so I woke up.

Q. Are you a champion napper?

ANGEL YIN: Yeah, I can power nap real good. If I'm tired and I need to sleep, I can do it.

Q. What's the best part of your game this week?

ANGEL YIN: I would say my iron shots going into the green. I've been three-putting a lot, which is really abnormal. I three-putted again today. It's always disappointing for me when I three-putt because it feels like, what am I doing. Especially since the greens here are so small, too.

I made up for it out there with a few long putts that I drained. That was really nice. Yeah, even though I didn't hit it as good as I did the first day or the second day, I did manage to score well, and I just adapted and I stayed patient. My caddie kept telling me to stay patient, so I'm glad I did that.

Q. When is the last time you could have reasonably imagined yourself winning an LPGA event?

ANGEL YIN: I mean, I imagine it every week. Every week I step on the tee box, I'm like, this is it. I played a practice round with Cristie Kerr during COVID, and we were in Reynolds. I remember this so clearly. I was playing a practice round with her, she was walking after she hit a tee shot off a practice round, and she was like, I'm four days away from people knowing I'm back. That's the confidence. Every day I tell myself that: Just channel your Cristie Kerr.

Q. I'm trying to imagine if you win what you will do on the dock.

ANGEL YIN: Anything. I'll win, let me win, and then I'll do anything. Do I sound desperate with that? That's all I want. I've been telling everyone because I was like, if I tell the universe man, I'm going to manifest it true.

Q. In your mind what is the perfect jump into that --

ANGEL YIN: I don't know. I just need to win and then I'll tell you.

Q. What are you thinking about for tomorrow?

ANGEL YIN: So I know where my game is at. I know how it's been performing for the last three days and the game plan for this golf course, and it's been working well. All I need to do is just get my energy back to semi-decent level, and then I think I'll be good to go. I think my focus today for the rest of the day is just to reenergize and be ready for tomorrow.

Q. (No microphone.)

ANGEL YIN: Yeah, I was really tired, so coming into my third shot, I hit it, I was like fidgeting with my grip because I couldn't get comfortable, and I hit it and people started clipping, and I was like, please be really, really close because I think I'm seeing stars right now. And then over that putt, I could hear everything. Like it was echoing in my head. My hands were shaking a little bit. I was really happy I made the putt. Such good momentum into tomorrow.

Q. I forgot to ask about the lucky bounce. It looked like you hit a turtle or what happened?

ANGEL YIN: No, I got so lucky. I was like, that's like car worthy, right? Then as I did it, my caddie was like, Marcus was like, let's chip it in. I mean, how great is that? I was like, yes. Then it touched the hole and I was like, darn, if it went in, that's TV worthy. Then that's TV worthy, right? It could have been a great commercial like Tiger's, but it didn't happen.