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Golf - 29. July 2016.

Ricoh Women's British Open-Quotes from Lee, Ko and Hull

Ricoh Women's British Open Quotes




Mirim Lee

Quick Quotes

MIRIM LEE: It's been three years.

Q. What made you go to Dallas, Texas?
MIRIM LEE: Yeah, because my aunt lives in Dallas. If I'm going to live away from home, better to be somewhere where relative family is. On top of it, there's a big Korean community there, and obviously for tax reasons, as well.

Q. Same coaches?
MIRIM LEE: Yeah.

Q. New caddie since KPMG? How long has he been on the bag?
MIRIM LEE: One more week.

Q. What are your hobbies?
MIRIM LEE: In Korea, just getting together with my fans and the usual girl talking and watching movies, spending time with my friends. Since I've been here in the US, really haven't had any specific hobby. Just chill out at home and just lay down on the couch.

Q. Are your parents still in Korea?
MIRIM LEE: Yes.

Q. And do you have brothers and sisters?
MIRIM LEE: Yeah, I've got a younger brother and older sister. My older sister travels with me acting as my manager.

Q. Is that your best-ever round?
MIRIM LEE: Yeah, I've shot 11-under before. It was back in I think second round of LPGA Q-School, final stage. Just so happens my caddie at the time was my caddie today.

Q. And who is this caddie?
MIRIM LEE: John Kileen.

Q. And first-round leader the last at U.S. Women's Open, last major, what's with starting to fast at these big events? You come out with no pressure?
MIRIM LEE: I think the difference is that now I'm trying to have fun. I'm trying to enjoy it, whereas in the beginning of the year, things weren't really going well for me, so I really put a lot of work into it and I think it's just natural that it's showing, the hard work is showing now. It's paying off now, yeah.

Q. The injury --
MIRIM LEE: There's no pain. I'm just using it to prevent getting injured. It's just from hitting too many balls and practicing too much, and the tendons got week, so it's kind of accumulated. So I'm just trying to prevent any further injury.

Q. And do you enjoy playing in the U.K.? Are you enjoying your time here?
MIRIM LEE: Yes, I wanted to come here and play last year, but I had my injury which prevented me from coming, but it's good I'm here this week because I got to spend some time in London and do the touristy things. I went to Buckingham palace and went to this big department store, Harrod's. Once I did that, it was time for me to come here and get my game face on, yeah.

Q. Did you buy anything at Harrod's?
MIRIM LEE: I wanted to buy something, but there was so many people there, you had to wait in long lines. So I just mainly did eye shopping.

Q. Can you take us through any key shots today, any really, really good -- I know you said putts were short, but any good shots?
MIRIM LEE: There's not really one specific hole or a few specific holes where I feel like I did splendidly well. It's just that all the holes, I played every one of them really well. Just, you know, on the green, on the fairway, similar amount of distance in putts. Overall it was all-around good.

Q. Is that the best you ever felt like you've played, the best round you've played?
MIRIM LEE: I would say so. I mean, I had a few missed shots but they weren't really big of an error or anything. I would say it's one of the best.

Q. What is it about the course that you like particularly?
MIRIM LEE: When you normally think of British Open, you think of high roughs, difficult roughs. But here it feels more like California, so I think that really made me feel comfortable.

Q. Would you say your big sister is like a mother or a friend?
MIRIM LEE: She's strict.

Q. What does she tell you to do?
MIRIM LEE: She doesn't really get too much involved with the golf side other than she reminds me I should train really well on the physical side, and if my posture is not correct, she'll say, get your posture straight. That's about it.

Q. And what are the ages?
MIRIM LEE: 25.

Q. And your sister's name?
MIRIM LEE: She's 35. Jijeun.



Lydia Ko

Quick Quotes

Q. A little bit of a struggle I know for you today. How would you assess what happened?
LYDIA KO: Yeah, you know, nothing was really that great. My short game wasn't that great to cover up for the missed shots and when I did hit it close, the putts didn't go in. When that's the case, you're not going to shoot a low score. But hopefully a few more putts drop tomorrow. I've just got to stay positive. There's still a lot of golf to be played, and just hit one shot at a time. It's not an easy course but by the looks of it, it's playing easy for a couple of the girls. But it's because they are playing great.

Hopefully I'll able to have a low one tomorrow and put myself back in it.

Q. Going into tomorrow, would you change anything? And do you feel like there's a really low number out there for you tomorrow?
LYDIA KO: I hope so, but everything depends on the weather and the pin positions. If they tuck pin positions or put it on difficult slopes, then obviously it is harder to approach with the long game and the short putts, too. But I think I've just got to stick to my game plans. I don't feel like I hit a wrong club or something off the tee, or just game-plan-wise and course management, I've just got to stick to it. Hopefully it's important to hit a lot of fairways, as it is getting drier, and hole a lot of putts, and I think that's the key.

Q. Playing with the hometown favourite, you're the world No. 1, that's a pretty big pairing. What was that like out there?
LYDIA KO: Yeah, it was really cool on the first tee as we just walked out for the crowds to cheer us on. It's always cool to play with the hometown favourite and a hometown girl like Charley. And she played great golf. So I think the fans had a great time.

It was just great, the numbers, for it being a Thursday, and then we're right in the middle of the day, I think it was pretty impressive. I think crowd-wise, it's only going to get bigger and bigger as the days goes on.





Charley Hull

Quick Quotes

Q. 69 today and a really fighting finish from you. Tell us about the last couple holes?
CHARLEY HULL: Yeah, it was good to finish there, birdie, birdie. I said to my caddie on the 15th hole, let's make a couple of birdies coming in, and I did. I'm happy with my round today. I was a bit nervous on the first tee obviously because it's like my home golf course and it is a pretty easy open tee shot and I don't really want to screw it up because I'd look even more silly, but I'm happy.

Q. I know you can't played the Marquess Course as often as you have the Duchess Course, but how much are your comfort levels rising?
CHARLEY HULL: I'm really comfortable on the front nine because I usually play like the front nine and my dad picks me up from the halfway house at the ninth. But I am comfortable around here. I usually play a little bit further back because I usually play the lads' tee and coming in with longer clubs. It's actually quite nice to come in with some 7-irons, so it's good.

Q. Tell me about the crowd, because I know you expressed a little bit of reservation about some of your best mates coming to see you and thinking that might put you off. How did you get on with it all?
CHARLEY HULL: It was good. I had my best mate, James, here and Maria Kendall (ph) here, as well. She's never been on a golf course before. It was quite funny. I don't know how she found it today. It was a good day.

Q. Finish 3-under, birdie the last two, what a great way to finish?
CHARLEY HULL: It was good, birdie on the last couple holes, I said to my caddie, I need to make a couple of birdies coming in, and I did. It was nice to start with a birdie, as well, and I'm pretty happy with myself because I was pretty nervous on that first tee because obviously home crowd and I felt like I had big expectations from people.

Q. I guess you do. Everyone is really wishing you the best and you delivered?
CHARLEY HULL: I'm happy with my round. A few things I can tidy up on but I'm pleased.

Q. Do you feel pressure, given everybody is wishing you so well?
CHARLEY HULL: Yeah, I do feel the pressure. Honestly the first tee shot today was probably the most nervous I've ever been on a golf course, and I never usually get nervous, so it was quite weird.

Q. Could you get comfortable out there?
CHARLEY HULL: After I made a birdie on the first hole, I was pretty happy. I was a bit more comfortable.

Q. Scoring has been pretty good today. How would you assess your position going into round two?
CHARLEY HULL: Yeah, I'm happy. I don't think it's a low -- apart from someone's pretty low at the moment. But I think I'm in a good place and hopefully I can play low into tomorrow.

Q. How did you make yourself feel more comfortable? How did you calm down?
CHARLEY HULL: I don't know, I just birdied the first hole. So I was quite happy. Because it's quite an easy tee shot, but like I didn't want to mess it up to make yourself look even more silly.

Like sometimes on the first hole, it could be quite a tricky tee shot. I was quite happy. It was a good crowd on the first tee. I hit driver, but I ballooned it. I actually hit it really, really bad, like it didn't go anywhere, and I hit a half-wedge into the green to about eight feet and holed it for birdie.

Q. Give us an idea of the difference in clubs. 16 and 18 you were far down?
CHARLEY HULL: I hit just over half pitching wedge on 16 and on 18 I hit like half to three quarter 9-iron, just because was a bit unsure of the wind. So I flew it there. But usually I'm coming in with 4-irons to some greens.

Sometimes I get a bit confused, like where to pitch it, because I'm used to coming in with long clubs and I know what I'm doing. It's like a completely different golf course. Like say I got a line wrong off like the ninth. I hit it too far left, because off the back, you can go a bit further.

I was further back but I was just too far left, like because of the tee boxes. But yeah, it's different.

Q. What would you normally hit into 16 and 18?
CHARLEY HULL: 16, I usually play off the blues with my friends, so sometimes I come in with 5-iron and 4-iron and stuff. But I like it when it plays long to be honest. I'm just used to playing it like that.

Q. Hard adjustment, though, isn't it?
CHARLEY HULL: It is quite tricky because I feel like the greens are quite actually slow. But when I'm with my friends, I'm usually like bombing them, like hitting them really firm in, because I'm not too bothered how far past. So when you play with your mates, you try and leave yourself sometimes 5-footers to feel under pressure. But here, I need to hit it -- I'm in my tournament, like, speed, if you know what I mean. Yeah, I need to hit them a lit further.

Q. Good save at 14?
CHARLEY HULL: The par 3, yeah, that was a good save, because I was right in-between clubs.

Q. How long was the putt?
CHARLEY HULL: 20 feet. It was a tricky bunker shot. Like I played the bunker shot well. I couldn't really get it too far, too much quite closer.

Q. Good save at 15, as well?
CHARLEY HULL: Like I hit a great drive and hit a great second shot all the way down there. I was just too close because I was on like a downslope and usually like for that far, grip right down but because the ball was below my feet I had to grip up and I hit it way past. Then I didn't hole the putt, it just ran past.

Q. If you had to think of one thing that made it like an advantage of being at your home club and one thing that was a disadvantage, what would it be?
CHARLEY HULL: I think the advantage would be probably just like home comforts and stuff. Disadvantage would be like the expectations.

Q. A lot of members are watching you?
CHARLEY HULL: Yeah, exactly, and you don't want to screw up, because if you're in America, you hit a bad shot, people don't really notice it as much. It's not televised. But when it's here, you're kind of seeing it. But no, I'm happy and I'm feeling better, as well, so it was good.

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