KROGER QUEEN CITY CHAMPIONSHIP PRESENTED BY P&G

September 8, 2023

Perrine Delacour

Kenwood Country Club

Quick Quotes

Q. I'm here with Perrine Delacour after the second round of the Kroger Queen City Championship. At the top of the leaderboard. Can you talk through your round today?

PERRINE DELACOUR: Yeah, it was a pretty good round. Definitely hurts to start with a double, finishing with a double, but it's golf. Still a lot of golf going on, and I mean, I'm still on the top of the leaderboard, not too far back.

Everything can happen on this course, so just going to keep building that for the weekend.

Q. Walk us through what was going through your mind to come back and make all those birdies off the bat?

PERRINE DELACOUR: No, I mean, I was kind of a little stressed at first and then I had a good communication with my caddie, so that kind of helped me. You know, this course, it suits pretty good my game and you can make a lot of birdies, so you know you can shoot pretty low. You can always come back.

Q. Have you ever had a round kind of like that where you started and ended in that way? That's kind of crazy to start and end with a double and make that many birdies in between.

PERRINE DELACOUR: Yeah, it's definitely crazy. I don't even know how many birdies I made all day. As a golfer you don't want to start with a double and finishing with a double. That's why I'm kind of little upset of my round. But at the end of the day it's still under par. I'm still near the top of the leaderboard, so I still got a chance for the weekend.

Q. Maybe in the past would that have derailed your day? You made three birdies right after the first hole. Does that tell you anything about where you are now?

PERRINE DELACOUR: Yeah, for sure. We've been working a lot with my team about that. I mean, it's a long process. As I was saying last week, I'm coming back out of a mental break and it's a long process.

For me it's taking longer than I was expecting it to, but every week is a new experience and I learn from it. That's what I keep in my head.

Q. That was my last question: You made some brave remarks last week and spoke up about something that I think a lot of athletes need to talk more about. Have you got any positive response from your peers out here and maybe at home or from your team?

PERRINE DELACOUR: Yeah, I definitely got some support from people. I mean, I don't know, as you can see, at first I was struggling, should I say the truth or not? I mean, for me it was really important because I've been really struggling with it, and I'm still like kind of sometimes struggling with it.

I feel like more girls has to open up and talk about it because the more they admit it the better they are. For me it was definitely hard to say it. It was that question. I was talking to my question, that's the question they don't want me to ask, but once you ask for it, I'm like, well, just have to tell the truth and we'll see what people think and move forward.

Q. You're really brave. We appreciate it.

PERRINE DELACOUR: Thank you.