ISPS HANDA WOMEN'S SCOTTISH OPEN

August 16, 2024

Lydia Ko

Dundonald Links

Quick Quotes

Q. Here with Lydia Ko after her second round of the ISPS Handa Women's Scottish Open. Windy conditions. How did you battle through those?

LYDIA KO: Yeah, I thought I played really solid out there. My ball-striking was good, which helps in conditions like this. I think I played the wind a lot better today than I had early in my round yesterday.

So I feel like I'm slowly getting adjusted to the wind because I kind of have to. I saw the forecast for the next couple days and it's just as windy as today.

It's a lot of creativity is required when the wind is this much because I have to hit a 3-wood from 175 which is normally a 5-iron distance. I think it's kind of out of the ordinary situations, but you just have to adjust to the situations really quick.

Q. Only one bogey on the card today. How were you able to able to take advantage of this course and keep yourself out of those opportunities?

LYDIA KO: I hit my tee shots really solid and obviously that's key, having a little bit more control on the fairway going into the greens. But all in all, I think the ball-striking was solid, and when I did hit it a little further away, I just tried to stay patient and I think that's what you've got to do because when is tricky, you know that you're going to potentially make mistakes. You just have to move on and focus on the next one.

Q. In links golf, people say that you have been to be creative. Was there anything creative that you had to do out there today?

LYDIA KO: Yeah, I guess on the fourth hole or something, I can't remember the last time I've had to hit a 3-wood on a par 3. It was honestly like a 5-iron distance. I hit a 5-iron yesterday and today I hit a 3-wood and it landed just pin-high. So it's kind of the number goes out of the window, and you just have to see how your trajectory is going to get affected by the wind. I feel like Paul and I did a good job of that today.

Q. What's the mindset heading into the weekend?

LYDIA KO: I'm just still focusing on the course management that I had set earlier this week. I think that's probably the biggest thing I did well in Paris was just sticking to my routine, sticking to the way that I was kind of going anyway around the golf course.

Sometimes I think you can get looped into seeing other people play the hole a certain way, and you think maybe you should do that. I did that really well in Paris, and that was one of the biggest things I was proud of, and that's what I'm trying to stick to over the weekend as well as I did these past two days.