FIR HILLS SERI PAK CHAMPIONSHIP

March 22, 2024

Linn Grant

Palos Verdes Golf Club

Quick Quotes

Q. All right, here with Linn Grant. Linn, walk me through today's round. Very much a patient round as you like to say. Overall how are you walking away from day two here at Palos Verdes?

LINN GRANT: A very solid day. Pretty much very similar to yesterday. Felt a little bit easier out there today without the wind this morning.

Played solid. Unfortunately made a double on my 13th hole, but made three birdies coming in, so that felt nice finishing on 18 today.

Q. If you don't mind me requesting, what happened there on that and how do you reset yourself to be able to close the way you did?

LINN GRANT: What happened on that hole?

Q. Yeah.

LINN GRANT: I hit it in the bunker off the tee and had to play it up short of the green. Hit a good first putt and managed to three-putt from there. Unfortunately.

But, yeah, I just tried to stay positive. I had a lot of patience today. It's not every day you have that in store.

So I knew there was a short par-5 coming up, and at least a short par-3 and a couple wedge shots into the last couple holes.

So I just knew there were a lot of birdies to catch if I could just be patient with it.

Q. I know you got Jamie on the bag. Had him for the beginning of this year. Do you lean on your caddie for moments like that when you have to maybe reset and think ahead to the positives of shorter holes, things you can take advantage of?

LINN GRANT: Not really. (Laughing.) I think I'm very confident with myself, but if I would like to he would definitely be there. Not saying he wouldn't.

I just told him today that I hate pep talks, so I feel like I'm very good at coaching myself. I mean, that inner voice that I have in my head could be very different from the one that someone else wants to give, so I tend to just say that I'm good. I'll just be in my own world. Just let me be.

Q. Have you always been like that?

LINN GRANT: For the main part of it I think. Yeah, I just think I played a lot of golf on my own so I kind of know what I like to hear and not like to hear.

Q. You mentioned the three birdies in your last four holes. What was working so well there. Talk me through No. 9. Seems like until 9 is a hole we're seeing a lot of people close with a birdie.

LINN GRANT: Yeah, there is the short par-5 and then pretty much every hole is a wedge in for me. So kind of knowing that, just knowing if I were to stay patient and just try to really get close to the pin, I would have some good birdie chances.

So, again, just I just tried to kind of hit close. (Laughing.)

Q. What have you taken away from the last few events on the LPGA when you went to Asia as you look ahead to the next string of events? What have you focused on?

LINN GRANT: Yeah, I feel like it kind of goes up and down a little bit. Out here I feel like everyone is playing so solid every week, so you have to be really confident with yourself and believe that you can do it.

So I feel like I worked a little bit on my mental side of it. Like what to think, what not to think, like what to not worry about.

But also trying to spend a lot more time on the green and around the greens during competition weeks.

Q. I've noticed on your off weeks you tend to go back to Sweden. A lot of players have that place in the States. I know you love going back home. I know how much that helps you reset and refocus. Did you go back to Sweden before this event?

LINN GRANT: Uh-huh.

Q. How much do you think that really helps you before taking on the next string of events on the LPGA?

LINN GRANT: Yeah, I think it does. I feel like I have a lot of personal goals with golf, and when I don't go home often I tend to forget about those.

So whenever I go home I feel like I can remind myself why I'm out here every week. It's not always very easy traveling everywhere alone and everything, so whenever I can back I remind myself that I'm playing golf for a reason and what that reason is.

Q. I can't remember, did you play Blue Bay?

LINN GRANT: No.

Q. So you went back after Singapore?

LINN GRANT: Yeah.

Q. What did you do at home and how do you, like you said, reflect on the goals you made for yourself?

LINN GRANT: I feel like I have two lives, so like I have my golf self that travels everywhere and is very independent and just goes along with my day and plays golf.

And then when I go home I can live my non-golfing life and just, I don't know, go to the supermarket and just kind of go to the bakery in the morning and cook a lot of food and spend time with my family and hang out with my friends and just really do things like a normal person would do when they're off.

So just kind of remind myself that I enjoy that part of it as well and I don't think I could ever kind of stay over here for two long because I would miss that too much.

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