U.S. WOMEN'S OPEN

May 31, 2024

Gabriela Ruffels

Lancaster Country Club

Quick Quotes

Q. Gabi, here after your second round. Looks like you'll make the cut. Maybe talk about your stretch there from holes 3 to 5 and what you were thinking about when you made those birdies.

GABRIELA RUFFELS: Yeah, lot a lot of going my way. I wasn't hitting it -- I mean, it wasn't quite that. It was kind of I wasn't playing that well.

Got it to 10-over midway through the round and then really just had to grind it out. Made a long putt on 3. Very, very long putt.

And then I made two, you know, 15-footers I would say on the next two. I knew the cut was going to be around 7- or 8-under, so I knew I had a chance after the three birdies.

Then made bogey on 6, but then kind of kept steady and proud of the way I hung in there.

Q. The chip on 9, which club did you use there? Looked like kind of a sticky lie. You had to chop at it but it rolled to about a foot.

GABRIELA RUFFELS: I used a 60- degree. I knew I had to chop down on it and it was going to be fast and just let it run. I knew I had to make par and just wanted to give myself a putt at it really. I was really, really grateful that it went to like a foot.

Q. Just the mindset going into the weekend. Obviously anything can happen. Good round can move you up quite a bit.

GABRIELA RUFFELS: Yeah, definitely. I know that at a U.S. Open. I think I missed the cut at Pine Needles and one of the girls in my group made the cut. That was a real I guess like turning point for me, because she ended up finishing like Top 20 and she made the cut on the number.

You just never know, and it's just kind of keeping yourself in there and grinding it out and seeing if I can make the cut and what you can do on the weekend.