JM EAGLE LA CHAMPIONSHIP

April 28, 2024

Jin Young Ko

Quick Quotes

Q. All right, here with Jin Young Ko after her final round to the JM Eagle LA Championship. Really good round today. Bogey-free. Four birdies. Can you just take me through your round a little bit?

JIN YOUNG KO: Yeah, the first three round I had a little bit of like trouble in my game, but today I had really good game and was, yeah, pretty good.

The course is not easy, so I tried to be patient and trying to get better than yesterday. So, yeah.

Q. Are you surprised to see your name so high on the leaderboard?

JIN YOUNG KO: Yeah. It's been a while. I work hard as I can and I know last couple weeks I had like -- I was in Korea and I played Chevron; I missed the cut. I was little disappointed and I tried to keep like cheer up myself.

Lots of Koreans out there, so I had a lot of good energy with them, from them, so I'm really happy to finish today.

Q. We haven't seen you out a lot. Just can you tell us what's been going on?

JIN YOUNG KO: Yeah, I was in in Korea after Singapore. I wanted to and I needed to more take a rest a little bit because I know this tour is really hard, travel a lot.

So I thought, yeah, take maybe like three weeks or four weeks of like golf club -- it will be better to me I thought, so I took a rest.

Yeah, I had a lot of, yeah, up and down in my life last couple months, but was okay.

Q. But physically you're okay?

JIN YOUNG KO: Yeah, getting better.

Q. Is it still the wrist?

JIN YOUNG KO: No, no.

Q. Just going into Founders Cup, that's where you'll play next, defending champion, right?

JIN YOUNG KO: Excited.

Q. What does this kind of round today, how does it help you as you head into being a defending champ?

JIN YOUNG KO: Yeah, I think I'm not a good golfer. I'm trying to be get better and better.

Yeah, before the Founders Cup, yeah, it's really happy to finish high score. Yeah, I mean, like to play golf, but it's sometimes really hard to play golf, so we need to be patient. Like it's really hard.

But also I'm very thankful playing front of a lot of Koreans. So I'm very happy person I would say.