HILTON GRAND VACATIONS TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS

January 19, 2024

Annika Sorenstam

Lake Nona Golf & Country Club

Quick Quotes

Q. Here with Annika Sorenstam. Great playing today. Leading the celebrity field. Talk about your round out there.

ANNIKA SORENSTAM: Thank you. Yeah, nice to be in here now. The weather in the end got a little iffy. I would say today was a good scramble day. Really scrambled out there. Didn't hit as many good shots as yesterday.

Just didn't give up. Kept on fighting. Missed few more greens. Had to do some more chipping today. Just hung in there. Very happy with my pairing today. Obviously to play with Mark Wang and Nasa. I know her from here. We practice quite a bit together on the range and so forth.

So just a nice pairing. Obviously nice to come in here and get a nice check for the foundation. That was a nice surprise. Overall been a good day.

Q. Talk about that a little bit more and the foundation.

ANNIKA SORENSTAM: Yeah, so Hilton Grand Vacations is a sponsor of ours and have been doing this for a few years now. They're giving us the resources to pursue our mission. One of the things that's really important here is that the winner, Natalie Yen, who won our tournament just a few days ago, she got a spot into the amateur division and I can see she's playing really well.

Thanks to their support we can do many of the initiatives we have and continue to inspire the next generation of young girls.

Q. What's the satisfaction on a day like today? You made golf look so easy yesterday. On a day like today when you're fighting for a score and you produce one, what's the satisfaction?

ANNIKA SORENSTAM: Yeah, well, it was nice to make the last putt and finish with a par. The hole was pretty long for me. I hit driver, 3-wood, and into the wind and a little bit of rain.

Yesterday I just drove it beautifully. Hit some beautiful iron shots. Had good distance control. That is just how golf is, right? I feel like I did the same thing, kind of same warmup routine, et cetera.

On the range it felt pretty good, but come on the course and it just really wasn't there. I don't know if I was a little quick or rushing. My chipping was a little bit off.

So just a hard day to the office compared to yesterday.