WOMEN'S OLYMPIC GOLF COMPETITION

August 10, 2024

Aditi Ashok

Le Golf National

Quick Quotes

Q. Thoughts on the final round and then the week?

ADITI ASHOK: I think today was probably the best day for me. I feel like I was hitting approach shots and I was holing putts, both were working, so I think that's where the seven birdies came from. Also, conditions were a little better today. Not as windy. So it was easier to manage today than yesterday.

Q. Overall, the week?

ADITI ASHOK: Yeah, I think overall, I think first couple days, scores were okay but I feel like that double on 18 kind of killed the momentum a little bit, and of course third day, you know, those 3-putts and those plus 7s took me out of the competition.

Overall it was a decent week. Not great, not bad.

Q. Three Olympics, but age still on your side. The dream continues?

ADITI ASHOK: Yeah, for sure. I think I just need to get to a point where all four days are not really struggling with any part of my game. I think sometimes in the season, you get those stretches where a few weeks, everything is working and you know those are the times you can make it happen.

But yeah, I haven't really had that this last few weeks. I've had like one good round, even in the last four weeks, even on the LPGA, I've had a good round and then haven't been able to follow it up with all four days being good.

So that's why I've got T-20, T-30. If I'm there with all parts of my game, I think it's easier to be there in the top five. I think that's what I need to work onto get to that level when I come to the Olympics again.

Q. It's been a long time, seven years now --

ADITI ASHOK: Eighth year now.

Q. So you've come pretty close very often, quite often. Does that hang over?

ADITI ASHOK: Not really. I think it's good every time you get in that position, you learn something new. You figure out what you need to work on if you don't win, and you also figure out what it takes to be in that position.

I think winning is a goal but there's many different ways to get there, and I think being in a position to win is the first step. You know, winning happens next, but first play well enough that you are always there. You are in a leader group on the third day and the fourth day, and do that again and again, and I think it will just happen.

This year, I haven't really sniffed the top as much. Last year I had two or three where you could see I was in contention, and it was -- lost one in a playoff which was tough luck. But I think at least last year, I felt like I had the game to win on the LPGA. I just have to get it done.