DANA OPEN PRESENTED BY MARATHON

July 18, 2024

Natthakritta Vontaveelap

Highland Meadows Golf Club

Quick Quotes

Q. All right, I'm here with Natthakritta Vontaveelap. Just tell me about your round today. One the only players I've seen to go bogey-free. How do you do that today?

NATTHAKRITTA VONGTAVEELAP: Okay, first, Sawasdee ka.

So today I shot 5-under and bogey-free, yeah. I do a lot of birdie and eagle within my back nine.

Yeah, I love my game today. This is my first round and I shot 5-under today. I love my game today, which is bogey-free, yeah.

So especially the most shot that I love today is my putt. So I can gain a lot of birdie and save lots of strokes by my putts.

And, yeah, my game can't be this easy if there was no driver today. So I drove my tee shot really good today. That was made my game super easy, yeah.

Q. Eagle on 11.

NATTHAKRITTA VONGTAVEELAP: Yeah.

Q. Par-4.

NATTHAKRITTA VONGTAVEELAP: Yeah.

Q. Tell us about it.

NATTHAKRITTA VONGTAVEELAP: Sure. Second shot, so I drove my tee shot really good, which is middle of the fairway.

To pin is 126, around that, yeah. No, sorry, it's 100 and I use 56 degree. I hit it really good. Goes like one yard over the pin and backspin from the left of the hole.

Yeah, and I was like, wow. Yes. Let's go. I can make this. After that I got birdies, birdies, birdies.

Q. Yeah, you did. You did really good on the back nine.

NATTHAKRITTA VONGTAVEELAP: Yeah.

Q. What did you like about the back nine? Lots of par-5s and you're pretty long, right?

NATTHAKRITTA VONGTAVEELAP: Yeah, but today my game was -- my tee shot good, second shot good, putts good, everything good, so it's perfect.

Yeah, I love every shot today. (Smiling.)

Q. You did so well on the back nine. Could you tell as the temperatures got warmer did the greens firm up a little bit? Was there better scoring as the temperatures warmed up and you got later in the round?

NATTHAKRITTA VONGTAVEELAP: I mean, it's the same as front nine, but after I got eagle my feeling, my momentum was like, wow, I can make this.

So, yeah, it's like keep going and going. So, yeah, feel good.

Q. You played here before, right?

NATTHAKRITTA VONGTAVEELAP: Never.

Q. Never? This is your first time?

NATTHAKRITTA VONGTAVEELAP: Yeah, first time.

Q. You like the course now after one round, right?

NATTHAKRITTA VONGTAVEELAP: Yes, I love it. Now my favorite course.

Q. What do you like about it?

NATTHAKRITTA VONGTAVEELAP: I love it because it's kind of fit my game. I can make lots of birdies. It's not too far for me. Just for me, okay? Just for me, okay?

So it's not too far for me. My second shot just like wedge and not longer than 9 or pitching wedge, yeah.

Q. Wow. Nice.

NATTHAKRITTA VONGTAVEELAP: Yeah, so many chance of birdie.