DANA OPEN PRESENTED BY MARATHON

July 14, 2023

Lydia Ko

Highland Meadows Golf Club

Quick Quotes

Q. Another second round performance here at the Dana Open. Just walk me through what was working so well today.

LYDIA KO: Yeah, I think it was really overall solid. There were a few mistakes, but I think they always happen, right. For the most parts it was good. So I just tried to stay positive and I think I gave myself more looks for birdies today than I did yesterday, which was, which kind of helps the momentum as you're not trying to scramble a lot. But, yeah, I think that I've been playing pretty consistent and it's a golf course where if you do a lot of things right you're going to have a few birdies and birdie opportunities at least. So I'm just trying to do that. It was a really good pairing, so just enjoyed being out there with Minjee and Allisen.

Q. What a superstar grouping. You're used to those week-in and week-out, but to play alongside, to see Allisen here as well, what was that like to be able to talk with her?

LYDIA KO: Yeah, I mean, I think tired is an understatement of probably how she is. No matter if you played two days or make the cut and play four or you win, it's a long week. And if you win it or and especially if you're in contention, it's an even longer week. I'm sure everybody probably wants a piece of her and she probably hasn't had much time to herself. But she's played, she played great. I don't think you would know that she's just come off a -- I mean, obviously you know that she's got good momentum, but you don't see any of that fatigue. Minjee played great too. So, yeah, I never had the two, like paired, like us three before. But for them both to be the last two U.S. Women's Open champion, it would be great if I could be in part of that collection of legends in the future, too.

Q. This course obviously you have a lot of great memories here coming back to Toledo. What is it like this past couple of, these past couple of days being back in this community?

LYDIA KO: It's great to be back. It's a pretty small town. So probably everybody knows each other. You're used to the surroundings. The former CEO of Marathon was out here watching and that's when I had won, so it was great to see Tom. And, yeah, I think it's kind of, it's, I don't know if this is the longest or probably one of the longest that's on our TOUR, going back to when Se Ri has won this event five times. So it's just got a lot of history here and I think a lot of the same people come out and watch us play this week and I think that's the neat thing about it. And there might not be anything fancy, but you know what you expect is what you're going to get and most of the time it's good.

Q. What do you take from a round like today as you head to the weekend?

LYDIA KO: I'm just going to focus on my game. Obviously the afternoon field -- I think our tee time hasn't even teed off in the afternoon, so a lot of golf to be played. Just try and continue the good over the next couple days and see just try and get good momentum from yesterday and today.