BANK OF HOPE LPGA MATCH-PLAY

May 28, 2023

Leona Maguire

Shadow Creek

Quick Quotes

Q. All right, Leona, a valiant effort out there today. Just overall your takeaways from today's match.

LEONA MAGUIRE: Yeah, just didn't have my best stuff today. I think couple of costly bogeys on the back nine.

But, you know, Ayaka played solid. She basically played the way I played the rest of the days. Didn't really do anything wrong.

Yeah, just didn't hole the putts when I needed to. Overall it's been a good week.

Q. Were there any kind of situations where you felt like you had to be more aggressive? Did it ever click to be more aggressive, change up the strategy you had?

LEONA MAGUIRE: No, I kind of put myself in a few wrong spots that I couldn't be aggressive. Kind of had to play safe. Yeah, couldn't really attack from there. Was kind of trying to play for pars instead of giving myself birdie chances.

I think that kind of caught up to me on the back nine.

Q. Last couple holes what were some of the feelings and the mindset you had trying to stay up to pace and Ayaka?

LEONA MAGUIRE: Yeah, trying to make a birdie on 16.

Trying to make a birdie on 17.

Thought I hit a nice shot into 17 but the wind sort of switched and came up short.

Yeah, I mean, there has been a lot of golf this week, a lot of good golf. I'll take the positives from it.

Q. A T3 finish. As you move on to your next event, what are some of the thoughts you take away from this week going into the next couple stretch of events?

LEONA MAGUIRE: Yeah, I think this is one of the toughest courses we play all year, so played some really, really good golf around a really good, tough golf course.

So try and bring that momentum into next week.