June 13, 2023
Hunstanton, England, United Kingdom
Quick Quotes
Q. 72, level par, you member pleased?
ANNE FERNANDEZ: Yeah, I am happy. We were really lucky for the first seven holes. It was pretty calm. Then around the turn, it started to pick up so it was just -- like just got to keep steady and play the game today. But overall I'm really happy.
Q. Obviously quite windy but you couldn't really ask for better conditions.
ANNE FERNANDEZ: Honestly, yeah, and like the course is in such good shape. So I mean, it was just kind of like keeping it, I don't know, fairways and greens really simple and just enjoying the whole thing at Prince's and playing the Women's Amateur.
Q. You said you're here for the first time. What are your first impressions of an event like this?
ANNE FERNANDEZ: I think it's such a privilege to be here. It's so nice to be playing against the top amateurs. I'm only 17, so a lot of these girls are in college and stuff so it's nice to see how I fair against them.
But other than that, it's great. Great tournament, great first time so far.
Q. First time in the U.K.?
ANNE FERNANDEZ: First time in the U.K.
Q. Weather is always like this.
ANNE FERNANDEZ: Yeah, it's crazy because this is the second course I've played in the U.K. The first one I played two days ago at St George's. I'm lucky to play that as my first course.
This course is amazing. It's a different style of golf course from what I'm used to, links golf. I'm really lucky because I'm in a golf academy called Albany Academy, and we have three coaches who are all from the U.K. who have all gone through students who have gone to this tournament before, and so they have been teaching me to flight my shots and stuff and playing with the.
Q. Where is that academy?
ANNE FERNANDEZ: In the Bahamas. Grace Crawford. Grace and I are good mates, yeah.
Q. I'd have thought she could have passed some knowledge to you as well.
ANNE FERNANDEZ: Yeah, we played the practise round together. It was nice. Grace is a great player, so it was nice to learn a thing or two about this golf course with her.
Q. Did you come with the goal of trying to make the match play?
ANNE FERNANDEZ: Oh, for sure, see how far I go. You just go to every tournament with the same mindset, doing the best you can, even if it's like wanting to win but it's been good.
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