THE ANNIKA DRIVEN BY GAINBRIDGE AT PELICAN

November 15, 2024

Rose Zhang

Pelican Golf Club

TV

Q. Great round of golf these past couple days. Can you talk about some of the challenges that you face when you're playing Pelican?

ROSE ZHANG: Definitely. It's a pretty lengthy golf course and I'm surprised it's in such great shape with the hurricanes that were coming beforehand. But everyone made this golf course pretty prestigious for us to play. The greens were actually pretty firm. Just everything is rolling really quick. You got a lot of false front. Got a lot of the edges, and you really have to place your ball correctly.

So one, get it in the fairway because you never know what that lie in the rough could come out with. So I think overall, it's just a pretty tricky golf course for the best of the best.

Q. And because you're a very thoughtful person and give great answers, I'm going to ask you about what having Caitlin Clark coming to play in the pro-am for women's sport and women in general golf?

ROSE ZHANG: Absolutely incredible. Caitlin is one of the most inspiring people to date right now. Everything that she's been doing on and off the court has been honestly, very inspiring for not only us as professional golfers, but for other professional athletes.

I think she brings a lot of the limelight to women in general. She brings a lot of attention. She makes it fun.

By-product, her coming here, just makes everyone look at this event a little bit more and there is a little bit more viewership, which really helps or game too.

Her Caitlin effect is definitely spreading over to the golf course.