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KELLY THESIER:\u00a0 We’d like to welcome Inbee Park into the interview room.\u00a0 Congratulations, a great 3?under par round today, 69.\u00a0 Now sitting at tied for second, 9?under par.\u00a0 You’ve been playing some pretty consistent golf of late.\u00a0 What’s been the biggest key for you to keep that going?<\/p>\n
INBEE PARK:\u00a0 It’s been just, you know, everything coming together kind of.\u00a0 Obviously I putted a little bit better the last few weeks, and my ball striking has been very consistent.<\/p>\n
But you know, today was\u00a0?? you know, I hit a couple of bad shots and kind of scrambled around today.\u00a0 Yeah, I mean I still feel like I definitely left a couple out there today, but number 17 and 18, you know, dropping those putts really helped me for tomorrow.<\/p>\n
And you know, three back is quite a bit different.\u00a0 So I’m happy where I am right now, and yeah, we’ll see tomorrow.<\/p>\n
KELLY THESIER:\u00a0 We were just talking when Suzann was in here.\u00a0 The two of you have actually been in the hunt at British and then last week at Meijer and now you’re both up there again.\u00a0 Is there something about the two of you, like how you’ve been playing and that motivation of keep moving up in that spot to getting that win that you’re close to having a win that you just want it even more the next week when you don’t get it?<\/p>\n
INBEE PARK:\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 I think you kind of learn from the last week.\u00a0 I think it’s kind of obvious for golfers to play good for like a month or two in a row, because when they’re striking well and when they’re putting well, it usually goes for about a month or two.\u00a0 So I think Suzann and I are kind of in that zone where we’re playing really good golf.\u00a0 And it’s good that we get an opportunity every week, and yeah, it’s really exciting to play in the final round.<\/p>\n
KELLY THESIER:\u00a0 I know you’ve been talking a lot about feeling like a missed opportunity at the women’s British, that you had it right there.\u00a0 What would it mean to you to walk away with a major championship so soon after kind of missing out?<\/p>\n
INBEE PARK:\u00a0 Yeah, you know, I’ve been really waiting for another major win in a while.\u00a0 It feels like in a while.\u00a0 It’s not really that while.<\/p>\n
But yeah, I think it’ll be good to actually recover from my mistakes that I made in the British Open and play well this week and kind of play well in the final round.\u00a0 I think that’s going to be great key going into the last half of the season.<\/p>\n
KELLY THESIER:\u00a0 Questions for Inbee.<\/p>\n
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Q.\u00a0 I know the bombers on tour really loved this course as soon as they saw it and they’re obviously on top of the leaderboard as well.\u00a0 What about you?\u00a0 Did you feel like it set up for you as well even though you’re not among the longest on tour?<\/p>\n
INBEE PARK:\u00a0 This course is not exactly for the average hitters, the short hitters.\u00a0 This golf course definitely\u00a0?? long hitters definitely has advantage on this kind of golf course.<\/p>\n
For example, I played with Brittany today, and she was probably 50 yards ahead of me on the par?5s, and she was hitting, I don’t know what she was hitting, but probably like 7?iron or 6?iron when I was hitting like 3?woods.<\/p>\n
So yeah, I think it’s best to kind of []attack from like 220 than 160.\u00a0 So yeah, I haven’t really played that well on the par?5s this week.\u00a0 I mean those are the holes that you really need to make a birdie on this golf course, but I only made one today, made none on first day.\u00a0 I think that’s really been the big difference, and if I made like couple every day, I think I could have been leader by three or four.<\/p>\n
So yeah, feels like a little bit of a disadvantage, but you’ve gotta overcome that obviously.<\/p>\n
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Q.\u00a0 Does it mess with your head ever when you’ve got 3?wood in?<\/p>\n
INBEE PARK:\u00a0 I don’t know.\u00a0 This year’s been\u00a0?? major tournaments been very long and wide, and hasn’t been exactly my type of a golf course, but you know, if I play consistently, and yeah, I really\u00a0?? I think I kind of have to putt really well to win.\u00a0 So yeah, I will see how many I can hole tomorrow.<\/p>\n
KELLY THESIER:\u00a0 As you said, you got to watch Brittany firsthand.\u00a0 We haven’t seen her up at the top of the leaderboard very much recently.\u00a0 She’s kind of been working on some things.\u00a0 What impressed you about her as you watched it firsthand today?<\/p>\n
INBEE PARK:\u00a0 She definitely played well on the par?5s here.\u00a0 You know, it’s really easy birdie for her.\u00a0 You know, she’s so aggressive player and she goes and just hits it, and she just hits short irons that things so easy to me.<\/p>\n
Yeah, she made good putts today, especially on a couple of really tough par putts.\u00a0 So yeah, I think she’ll be very excited to be there and she’s going to give it all she’s got tomorrow.<\/p>\n
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Q.\u00a0 Inbee, Rochester has only had two people repeat as champions, Nancy Lopez and Patty Sheehan.\u00a0 What would it mean for you to be able to win back to back here especially considering that we’re going away for a while?<\/p>\n
INBEE PARK:\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 I mean I think that’s probably a very long time.\u00a0 Yeah, like I said, playing this week has been always an honor and being part of the history is always a great thing to do, and especially last year here in Rochester.\u00a0 And you know, having a great memory, we had great memories here.\u00a0 Hopefully we are coming back here again for another tournament.<\/p>\n
Yeah, I think it would be very special to do it twice here in Rochester.\u00a0 So yeah, I think it’ll be fun tomorrow.<\/p>\n
KELLY THESIER:\u00a0 Any more questions for Inbee?\u00a0 Well, thank you very much, and best of luck tomorrow.<\/p>\n
INBEE PARK:\u00a0 Thanks.<\/p>\n
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