HILTON GRAND VACATIONS TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS

January 20, 2024

Gemma Dryburgh

Lake Nona Golf & Country Club

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Q. Here with Gemma Dryburgh after her third round at the Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament of Champions. Just take us through your round today.

GEMMA DRYBURGH: Yeah, played pretty well. Disappointed to do bogey the first. Had a three-putt there and another on 16 today.

Apart from that, felt really solid. And few birdies in the first nine. Yeah, just felt solid again.

Happy with how I'm playing considering it's the first tournament of the year. Yeah, just trying to get some of the rust off.

Q. What is it about this course that brings out a little bit of your strengths, or you're still trying to figure out and somewhat of a challenge for you?

GEMMA DRYBURGH I like how around the greens there is a lot of run-offs. I can use the bump-and-run shot, my Scottish shot. Done that a few times this week, so it's been fun to do that. It's quite unusual in Florida to be able to do that because of the gain, but around here it's very smooth on the approaches.

Yeah, it's been nice to use that shot round here.

Q. Probably hard pressed to have more fun out there today than yesterday. Coming off a round like yesterday where you had so much fun, did the energy dip or you ride that momentum into the next round?

GEMMA DRYBURGH: It was awesome playing with an camp played with her last year. Always a privilege to play with her. Obviously Gaby as well. Always feisty and always up for anything.

Good energy still.

We still had a good few chats out there. Not like me and Hally. A bit more competitive today I would say.

Q. Bogey on the first hole for some players is a good omen and a bad omen. Does it make you lock in more to where you can focus and get that shot back?

GEMMA DRYBURGH: Yeah, think so. I think I was able to get the shot back the next hole, which was nice. Having a par-5 after that was nice. Didn't feel like I did too much wrong on that hole, to be fair. I hit the green and that pin was in a tricky spot. Got running away from me a bit.

Yeah, kind of just locks you in and motivates you to get birdie back on the next hole.

Q. Heading into tomorrow what's the mindset? You're chasing obviously. Quite a bit of ground to make up, but never too far back as we say.

GEMMA DRYBURGH: Yeah, you never know. Anything can happen tomorrow. Just focus on my game and see where I end up.

Q. What was your main focus in the off-season of what you worked on?

GEMMA DRYBURGH: Yeah, I actually started working again with my former coach from IMG, Kevin Collins. Getting more weight into my left side, clean contact, and getting that compression. So hopefully might get me a little bit more yardage eventually, but working on that in the off-season.

Been a slightly different move through ball getting the weight on the left side.

Q. Here or long distance?

GEMMA DRYBURGH: It was here, yeah, in Florida. Went to see him at IMG. I'll go see him again next week in Bradenton.

Q. When did you first see him in the off-season?

GEMMA DRYBURGH: I think it was the same week as the Grant Thornton.

Q. Okay.

GEMMA DRYBURGH: So a couple weeks after CME.