DANA OPEN PRESENTED BY MARATHON

July 15, 2023

Mia Hammond

Highland Meadows Golf Club

Quick Quotes

Q. Just talk about your day today.

MIA HAMMOND: Yeah, so I started off pretty well. Pretty steady. Then just trying to deal with the rain as much as possible. It picked up towards the middle of my round. I want to say on 10 it started to get a little worse. That was difficult to manage. I'm not typically used to playing in those conditions. I have maybe, you know, three or four times in the past year, but it's definitely something that needs some adjusting to it. I know other players out here have a little more experience than me with that case scenario. But I feel like I managed myself pretty well. I had a couple hours to just kind of recuperate, I guess, in a sense during the rain delay, kind of fix what was going on. I hit it a little bit worse than I normally do today. So it was kind of just a matter of getting the feel for my swing back on the range and getting a feel for a few putts on the putting green. I feel like it worked out. I finished 1-under after the rain delay.

Q. Was there anything other than kind of fixing those things that you did to kind of refocus or stay focused and stay loose and all that?

MIA HAMMOND: Right, so first of all I tried to dry off as much as possible. I was completely soaked through. My fault for not bringing extra clothes today. But, yeah, I just tried to stay warm, stay dry. Keep my body loose. Tried to stretch a little bit. Just tried to stay in the moment and just stay in my groove.

Q. What are your thoughts and what's your mindset heading into this final day?

MIA HAMMOND: I have a lot of people coming out to watch me that are very close to me and I'm so excited for them to be here with me and share my first experience alongside of me. So it's just going to be such a great day that I'm just going to take it all in, just remember it forever. It's truly is going to be an experience I'll never ever forget.