COGNIZANT FOUNDERS CUP

May 13, 2023

Grace Kim

Upper Montclair Country Club

Quick Quotes

Q. All right, here with Grace Kim after her third round at the Cognizant Founders Cup. Grace, feel like you made the most of moving day today with your six birdies? Just take us through the round.

GRACE KIM: Yeah, definitely tried to make the most of it. I had a lot of birdies in there today but had a couple missed shots. I guess it could have been a really super day, but I'm happy with the 4-under that I had today.

So, yeah, I guess I hit a lot of good shots and couple putts dropped in and managed to do well.

Q. Was it the putting today that was the best part of your round that helped you get all these birdies, or approach? What was it?

GRACE KIM: I think it was a bit of both. I definitely hit a lot of shots close at the start, as well as holing some nice 10-, 15-footers. So it was a mixture of both I would say. Hopefully I can do that again tomorrow.

Q. You've only had six bogeys so far this week. What about this course kind of has your eye open a lot?

GRACE KIM: I think really makes you take a step back and make sure you think it through. It is a tight golf course. I know how straight the girls hit it, but you can still miss it in the light roughs, which can cause a lot of bogeys.

So making sure you're keeping it on the fairways and missing it on the right spots if you were to miss it, and, yeah, two-putting really.

Q. Hole 6 today has not been one that many players have birdied. How were you able to pick up a shot on the field basically there?

GRACE KIM: Hang on, what's 6 again?

Q. Par-3.

GRACE KIM: Yes, I guess I kind of just went for the pin. It was like a couple -- like two paces past so, what, six feet.

Yeah, just kind of tapped it down and made sure -- like I was trying to make sure it just got to the hole. I wasn't trying to make birdie but it went in the hole, so I'll take it I guess.

Q. With one win this season and coming to this course with the Founders all around us, what does it mean to you to be a winner on this tour and just play in front of some of our pioneers and with the Founders all around you?

GRACE KIM: Yeah, it's incredible. I've seen a couple of them out there today just watching us play. They've created history for us, so hopefully we can replicate that.

And having a win out here, I'm still looking at those videos back and I can't really seem to take it in.

Yeah, it's definitely something special for sure.