DANA OPEN PRESENTED BY MARATHON

July 18, 2024

Allie White

Highland Meadows Golf Club

Quick Quotes

Q. All right, here with Allie White, LPGA Tour teaching professional here at the Dana Open. I want to start with 17 hole. Take me through that eagle there.

ALLIE WHITE: Yeah, you know, always great to have an eagle. Yeah, that was about my best drive the day. Really smoked it, about 280 and I had 240 to the pin. I knew my 3-wood would probably go over, so I was just going to try to really hit a hard hybrid. I pushed it a little bit and got a fortuitous bounce and bounced just over the sand trap.

So it was on green and had a pretty difficult breaker downhill. I hit it and I was -- I hit it just how I wanted to, and then the fans in the beer booth behind me were like, you know, they were like, one time, as it was coming down the hill.

Threw my hands up and it went in the hole. Yeah, we took it.

Q. How long was that putt?

ALLIE WHITE: 60 feet. Yeah, I don't know. That sounds about right. It had a lot of break. I know that.

Q. Awesome. Love that. That wasn't the only good moment of the round. Really solid, lots of birdies. Four birdies on the card plus the eagle. What were some other good moments for you out there?

ALLIE WHITE: Yeah, on the front nine I gave myself a lot of good birdie looks and knocked down most of them. Like I could have had maybe one or two more.

And then the back nine I hit this scramble session where I missed about four or five greens in a row and scrambled really well.

Then I found my rhythm again on 17 and 18 and just, yeah, finished strong.

Q. You mentioned yesterday that making the cut was your big goal here. Did you imagine at the end of the first day you would see yourself right there in second place at the top of the leaderboard?

ALLIE WHITE: (Laughter.) You know, it was a pretty surreal day. I'm trying really hard to stay very not score, results oriented and just trying hard to play one shot at a time and staying target oriented.

So that's what I'm going to trying to do tomorrow. Just got to try to keep going deeper and get more birdies and stay in a birdie mindset.

They'll be coming for you. There is a lot of golf left to be played today and I think people will keep going low.

So, yeah.

Q. How much confidence are you feeling right now though after today and going into the second round?

ALLIE WHITE: Yeah, I really putted well, chipped really well, and hit a lot of other good shots. I'm feeling pretty good.

Yeah, just ready to go again. You know, get a little movie time and then tee it up again, you know.

Q. What movie are we going to be watching? Golf movie?

ALLIE WHITE: You know what, I should just watch the British Open. That would be the right thing to do. I don't even know a great golf movie. Tin Cup is fairly good I guess, yeah.

Q. Caddie Shack.

ALLIE WHITE: Caddie Shack is a classic, yeah.

Q. Rest up. See you tomorrow.

ALLIE WHITE: All right. Thanks for having me. See you guys.