LPGA Q-SERIES

December 10, 2024

Dewi Weber

Magnolia Grove Golf Club

Quick Quotes

Q. All right, Dewi, you just said to me that I'm proud of myself. What were the thoughts of just coming off of today?

DEWI WEBER: I have been so anxious playing golf under pressure for such a long time and not knowing how to handle myself.

And one can think, sure, it's Q-Series, you have status, you don't really have anything to lose. I wouldn't say I'm a glass half full or half empty person, but it's just easy on a week like this to be super harsh on yourself and feel like every shot is life or death.

If you're me, then oftentimes it feels like that; this week was no different. I think this week I saw how hard I have been working on my mental game and how that's been paying off.

Yeah, sometimes I was kind of shaky over a shot and the nerves are there, and I convinced myself that's a good thing, just adrenaline, use it to your fricking advantage.

I think that's why I'm proud of myself. It's not necessarily that I shot -- I don't know what I shot, like 11-under or something like that, 12. I don't know.

It's more like I felt all these things that I have been feeling before, like I felt at Portland and just got the better of me. I couldn't turn it around then.

There has been other time where you're fighting for a cut and just like it overtakes me. This week, yeah, it overtook me on the second round and I shot 5-over. That's not fun. It's not fun, especially if you're just shaky over every ball.

But then I came back from 5-over with 3-under after being 2-over after nine holes, so that take mental strength and fortitude and stamina, I think that's what I am most proud of.

Like I know I can hit the ball well. I know I can putt the ball online. All these things I know. I think there has been so much self-doubt about whether I actually have the mental game to perform under pressure is really high.

I think this week I proved that to myself. So it's actually kind of cool to finish the season like this.

Q. You talked about the mental game. In general with coming off that second round, did you do anything differently than maybe you have done in the past to really reset with three days to go? Was it more of just sticking to the routine, sticking to what you've been working on?

DEWI WEBER: No. It was more of the same, but like I think the difference between this time and the previous times was actually believing that there was no other way to do it, and like full throttle step on the gas. Do what you're supposed to do and not let one little miss-hit or like one unlucky bounce just get the better of you and therefore start analyzing everything.

No. You hit the ball the way you intended, or not even. Like you just did whatever you needed to do, and sometimes you make a bad swings, sometimes you make a good swing. It's whatever.

Just on the next shot it's an opportunity again. Really having that mindset versus, oh, I did everything the way I could and I flushed it and it didn't end up the way I wanted it to. All of a sudden there is this downward spiral.

So it was truly like believing, okay, like my process is good; I put good work in. And not just the last two weeks, but like the whole year.

Just can you for once just believe it then do it? And if that means that you're not making it, at least you can tell yourself, okay, I kept to my game plan and did what I needed to do. This time my best wasn't enough.

Like sometimes it's like that, too.