FORD CHAMPIONSHIP PRESENTED BY KCC

March 31, 2024

Maja Stark

Seville Golf and Country Club

Quick Quotes

Q. Maja Stark. Not ideal conditions today, but evaluate your round and the week.

MAJA STARK: It was pretty good. Tried to just take it one shot at a time and not -- well, get too ahead of myself. It's been from the beginning we just knew it would be birdiefest, so I tried to stay a little bit calm and I think I did it well.

But then I didn't look at a leaderboard, but during the last few holes I just got so nervous. Yeah. Just I guess I didn't know where I was, and I don't think it would've helped if I did look at a leaderboard and saw where I was.

So, yeah, just some nerves, messing up a bit.

Q. How does this set you up for the rest of the season? We are getting into the swing of things now, some majors coming up. Having a good finish, how much confidence do you have?

MAJA STARK: I mean, so much. This year I started pretty rough. I didn't really recognize myself when I was out there playing. My putting has been bad. It's just a little bit of searching for stuff.

But I feel like the past two weeks, even though I missed the cut last week, my irons were better than they've ever been pretty much.

But then I got here and then I got my putter just re-gripped, but they checked the loft and lie on it and saw that it was way off. So he said, no wonder you haven't been putting well because this doesn't work. Yeah, nice to know that it wasn't just me. It's the equipment too.

So, yeah.

Q. How have you been able to give yourself grace when you've not felt like yourself maybe?

MAJA STARK: I've just been focusing on my practice and trying to take what I've been doing well more and just looking at like my processes, like what am I doing, what went well especially. Because you need to have that, okay, but at least this worked for me.

So just been focusing on that and I just felt like from last week I felt like it was just a matter of time before I actually started playing well. Felt like I have done a lot of good things this year, but my technique has just not been there.

Now it's starting to work.