FORD CHAMPIONSHIP PRESENTED BY KCC

March 28, 2024

Isi Gabsa

Seville Golf and Country Club

Quick Quotes

Q. All right, here with Isi after her first round at the Ford Championship. Tied for the top of the leaderboard right now. Talk about your game and how you felt out there today.

ISI GABSA: I felt very comfortable out there. It's a pretty easy golf course. I just like trying to attack pins, and made couple of good putts at the beginning and just kept on going, and just one of those days where couple of putts went in and then you got more comfortable out there. Yeah, just couple of birdies, and, yeah.

Q. And you went bogey-free out there today as well. Can you just talk about how you took advantage of the course and definitely compared to what you saw last week at Seri?

ISI GABSA: So last week was like the toughest like we played on Sunday at PV. Coming here playing practice round you kind of could tell there were a lot of places you can miss the pin, so like you could just go for it.

It was just a little bit tough with like how far the ball is going to carry because of Arizona, it's going to be carrying a little bit further in the warm weather.

But I think we did a pretty good job figuring that out mid-round, because started mid-round that I carried my irons a little bit further. Then just went from one hole to the other and just kept on figuring out the yardage.

Q. And have you played golf in Arizona a lot?

ISI GABSA: I played Epson Tour out here for three years I think, then I played Wildfire and Superstition last year. So a little bit, yeah.

Q. What do you love about desert golf maybe?

ISI GABSA: Definitely hitting the ball far. It's kind of fun for sure. But coming from Florida, Florida golf to like desert golf, it's like two different climates. It's just fun hitting it down the fairway and seeing it bounce and go a long way.

Q. What does that, as well as seeing a score of 64, do for your confidence?

ISI GABSA: I didn't play good in the last like year and a half. I got injured, didn't make the cut last year, then got injured, and started playing again this year.

So it's pretty cool to just see and actually be healthy and playing again. That just made me more happy than the 64.