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RICOH WOMEN'S BRITISH OPEN

July 29, 2010

Anne-Lise Caudal

SOUTHPORT, ENGLAND

THE MODERATOR: Okay, ladies and gentlemen, we have Anne-Lise Caudal in the interview area. She just shot the 3-under par 69 leading the championship. Congratulations. You obviously played very well today.
ANNE-LISE CAUDAL: Yeah. Well, I did start very well to hit the ball. Then I'm more confident in my chipping and putting also. So I just enjoy and played good.
THE MODERATOR: You finished third last week. You must be feeling very confident.
ANNE-LISE CAUDAL: Yeah. I'm really confident. I played really well then, and the week before as well. And I didn't play last week. So I practiced all, and I really enjoy the play and on the Links golf course as well.
THE MODERATOR: Have you played much at Birkdale before?
ANNE-LISE CAUDAL: No. Not at all. I play only twice.
THE MODERATOR: And obviously you enjoy a course like this?
ANNE-LISE CAUDAL: Yeah. I like very much this course, yeah.

Q. How did you get started in golf and what's the strangest thing that's happened to you in golf or in life?
ANNE-LISE CAUDAL: I start with school, at school. I was 10 years old. And I just -- like I like the competition.
Every day is different. Every country and every golf course is different. And I really enjoy it.

Q. Has anything strange, unusual happened to you in golf?
ANNE-LISE CAUDAL: No.

Q. When is the last time you played in this competition?
ANNE-LISE CAUDAL: I played last year and two years ago, and I played in 98, twice when I was amateur. And where I live I have a golf course that that's a Links golf course called Chiberta.

Q. Is that your home course?
ANNE-LISE CAUDAL: No. It's not my home course. Just ten minutes from my home course.

Q. Were you in the French amateur team?
ANNE-LISE CAUDAL: Yeah.

Q. When you won in Tenerife it was quite windy and blustery. Did that experience help you today?
ANNE-LISE CAUDAL: Sorry.

Q. It's quite windy. Does that help your preparation?
ANNE-LISE CAUDAL: Yes.

Q. Is that good preparation?
ANNE-LISE CAUDAL: Yeah. It's really windy, and yeah, it's good preparation for you. Yeah.

Q. When you set out this morning, did you have any goals in mind or are you quite surprised that you find yourself at the top of the leaderboard?
ANNE-LISE CAUDAL: Yeah. Maybe a little bit. I'm really confident, so I know I can do it.

Q. Have you had any help from people like Thomas Levet or any of the other French men golfers?
ANNE-LISE CAUDAL: No. No, no. I didn't talk with them. But it's good to ask the players, like Thomas. They play good. So the French players can play good. French girls are good too.
THE MODERATOR: Can you go through the bogeys and birdies for us. You started with a bogey at first.
ANNE-LISE CAUDAL: Yeah. I hit a good driver. Second shot was hybrid and two-putt.
THE MODERATOR: Can you include the distances?
ANNE-LISE CAUDAL: I missed two meters.
THE MODERATOR: You birdied the fifth hole.
ANNE-LISE CAUDAL: Yeah. I hit driver and then --
THE MODERATOR: The one around the corner?
ANNE-LISE CAUDAL: I don't remember.
THE MODERATOR: Did you drive the dogleg around the corner?
ANNE-LISE CAUDAL: Yeah. And I hit 8-iron, shot off the pin, and I made a six meters for birdie.
THE MODERATOR: The par-5, 6, you birdied.
ANNE-LISE CAUDAL: Yeah. And driver 3-wood, like 30 meters to the pin, like 58 meters. And I made like one meter for birdie.
THE MODERATOR: And the other hole you birdied, par-4.
ANNE-LISE CAUDAL: I hit driver and then 7-iron. And I had four meters for birdie.
THE MODERATOR: And finished with a birdie at the last.
ANNE-LISE CAUDAL: Yeah. I hit it on the right. It was good. And then 4-iron just short of the green, and I chip in 4-footer. And I made that.
THE MODERATOR: Okay.

Q. Are there any other golfers in your family?
ANNE-LISE CAUDAL: No. I'm the only one.

Q. Had they even heard of golf when you came out and said I want to play golf. When you told your father you were going to try to make your profession as a professional golfer.
ANNE-LISE CAUDAL: Yeah. There was a bit of surprise. We lived close to one golf course, so it was easier for my parents. And they just said, yeah, okay, whatever you want. If you want to play golf, it's okay.

Q. What are your dreams? Your dream is to play in America?
ANNE-LISE CAUDAL: Yeah. I would love to play in America. But I don't know when. Maybe I'm going to go next year for the qualifying.

Q. I think you would have been about 15 when Jean Van de Velde played at Carnoustie Were you watching it on the television?
ANNE-LISE CAUDAL: Yes.

Q. And what were you thinking?
ANNE-LISE CAUDAL: Well, I don't remember that much. That's just golf. It's okay. So I think it was a good tournament for him, I think. I don't remember. I was real young.

Q. Will you be nervous going into tomorrow in the lead?
ANNE-LISE CAUDAL: I don't think so. I'm not really nervous, and so I think I'm going to do okay.

Q. You said you started playing golf at school, when you were 10.
ANNE-LISE CAUDAL: Yeah.

Q. Is that normal in France or is it just because of the area you were living in?
ANNE-LISE CAUDAL: I think it's normal in France now, but where I live we practice a lot of sports. So we can, yeah, we can start every sport.

Q. So is there other special academies in France for young girls to learn golf or the specific ways of doing it?
ANNE-LISE CAUDAL: No. We don't have academies. Only the French federation. We have some college golf and only the best for the young players. So that's it.

Q. Did you play any other sports when you were young or was it always golf?
ANNE-LISE CAUDAL: Yes but I played a lot of golf.

Q. Did you play anything else well?
ANNE-LISE CAUDAL: Not too well. But I like sports in general.
THE MODERATOR: Any more questions? Thank you very much. Good luck tomorrow.
ANNE-LISE CAUDAL: Thank you.

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