BLUE BAY LPGA

March 8, 2024

Hye-Jin Choi

Jian Lake Blue Bay Golf Course

TV

Q. Well done, Hye-Jin. A lovely round of 69. Can I ask where does this lovely smile come from? We've been seeing that a lot this year.

HYE-JIN CHOI: This year I try just smiling, because I felt golf is really important for me, but I felt not -- (indiscernible) it's good opportunity, but not for life, for my life. So I try more smiling and just more enjoying. Yeah, I try and it was very good.

Q. It was very good. You're currently leading the tournament, and so smiling your way around the golf course and playing great. You have a fan club in Korea.

HYE-JIN CHOI: Yes.

Q. You were called the World Queen. What have they got to you sign in the past? You have a few thousand members of this fan club.

HYE-JIN CHOI: Yeah, they always cheering for me, so sometime they coming, following my play, and then, yeah, it's funny. They are make my like my face, so it's really cute and it was very funny so I did like signature.

Q. So they arrive with printouts of your face and you signed those?

HYE-JIN CHOI: Yes.

Q. Brilliant. Well, they might be arrive this weekend because there is a lot to cheer about with your round. Are you going to go to the practice ground or to the beach after this?

HYE-JIN CHOI: I want to both. Yeah, I want to both. So I have time, so I can practice and after go to the beach. Yeah, I can do both.