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KELLY THESIER:\u00a0 All right, everybody.\u00a0 We got the winner here.\u00a0 Good evening, everyone.\u00a0 We would like to welcome the 2014 Wegmans LPGA champion, Inbee Park into the interview room.\u00a0 Congratulations.<\/p>\n
INBEE PARK:\u00a0 Thank you.<\/p>\n
KELLY THESIER:\u00a0 Taking the final day to a playoff.\u00a0 You’re no stranger to playoffs, you’ve been to quite a few of these, last year in a playoff to win, last week actually lost in a playoff and now to come out victorious.\u00a0 Are you getting used to these now?\u00a0 Are playoffs no big deal anymore?<\/p>\n
INBEE PARK:\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 You know, I just saved it for this week.\u00a0 Last week I didn’t win because I wanted to save it for this week.\u00a0 No, just kidding.<\/p>\n
Yeah, you know, I’ve been in many playoffs in the last year.\u00a0 Last year I won in a playoff.\u00a0 Last week I went into playoff, and this week as well.<\/p>\n
I mean it’s not something that I really look forward to doing because you feel so much pressure and you don’t know how many holes you’re going to get to play.\u00a0 And yeah, I think it’s very lucky that I actually got an opportunity today, because you know, I thought I probably won’t get an opportunity with Brittany coming up the last and if she made a par I would not have gone into playoff.\u00a0 And I holed really good putts on number 17 and 18 to put me in the playoffs.\u00a0 So yeah, just very happy the way I played today.<\/p>\n
KELLY THESIER:\u00a0 You talked this week about how disappointing this was to lose, to not win the women’s British.\u00a0 How long did that loss stay with you and what does it mean now to come back in the very next major and come away as champion?<\/p>\n
INBEE PARK:\u00a0 Yeah, it was very tough tournament to forget.\u00a0 You know, since I was so close and I thought I was definitely able to do it.\u00a0 And that’s been the tournament that I’ve really waited all year long, and that’s been my only goal this year.\u00a0 And not being able to do it in the final round was very disappointing, and it was very tough to forget.<\/p>\n
But you know, I came so close after that event, you know, and knocked on the door so many times, and finally being able to do it here in a major, it gives me a little bit of break from the British Open and I can kind of forget about it a little bit and kind of move on now.<\/p>\n
So yeah, already looking forward to next year.<\/p>\n
KELLY THESIER:\u00a0 We were just out there at the trophy ceremony where they were talking about the 38 great years of history here in Rochester.\u00a0 You now become only the third player ever to win back?to?back events in Rochester joining Nancy Lopez and Patty Sheehan.\u00a0 What does it mean for you to join that elite group, and what has this community meant to the LPGA?<\/p>\n
INBEE PARK:\u00a0 I mean it’s always an honor to me to put my name amongst Nancy Lopez and Patty Sheehan, those great athletes, great women’s golf players.\u00a0 And you know, it’s such an honor.\u00a0 And it’s been 38 years in Rochester that we’ve been playing, and so many people have so many great memories.\u00a0 I have great memories, and being able to be a part of the history was such a special feeling.<\/p>\n
Yeah, I almost thought it wasn’t going to happen today.\u00a0 But it happened, I don’t know, maybe Rochester and Rochester people has been helping me a lot to make this happen.<\/p>\n
Yeah, it’s good that we have this kind of community where everybody is really into golf and they love golf, and they really love supporting us.<\/p>\n
KELLY THESIER:\u00a0 We’ll open it up to questions for Inbee.<\/p>\n
Q.\u00a0 Inbee, when Brittany was in here, I asked her if the golf gods are just kind of mean.\u00a0 And she said absolutely.\u00a0 Now, on the flip side do you feel like the golf gods were maybe with you today with those putts on 17 and 18 and then in the playoff?<\/p>\n
INBEE PARK:\u00a0 Yeah, I mean being able to become a winner there has to be some kind of luck on your side.\u00a0 You know, I have always felt that whenever I was winning I felt like I had probably a little bit more luck than everybody else did.<\/p>\n
You know, I kind of struggled all day today kind of and then I dropped really important two putts on number 17 and 18.\u00a0 And yeah, I mean the way I’ve been putting today I thought I wasn’t going to hole those putts, but it just happened, so I think that’s really explaining how you can win.<\/p>\n
Q.\u00a0 And when you saw her\u00a0?? after you made your great up?and?down at 18, did you think knowing how hard 18 is, even though she hits it a mile, did you think that you had a chance of getting in a playoff because that hole was so hard this week?<\/p>\n
INBEE PARK:\u00a0 Yeah, I definitely thought that there is a chance if I made a par because, you know, 18 is a very tough hole and the pin position was quite tough.\u00a0 And you know, with the pressure conditions, you just don’t know what’s going to happen.\u00a0 So I really wanted to make that putt and give myself somewhat opportunity.<\/p>\n
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Q.\u00a0 Inbee, to win the LAST two championships here in Rochester, what has this community meant to you over these last few years?<\/p>\n
INBEE PARK:\u00a0 This is probably one of the favorite weeks that we\u00a0?? for me and probably for all the LPGA players to come and kind of stay for a week, and yeah, this tournament has the history, and this tournament has all the memories with us.\u00a0 So being able to put my name on this trophy for twice and being able to do it here in Rochester is such a great honor, and yeah, we’ll be missing Rochester.\u00a0 We definitely want to come back here for another event.<\/p>\n
Q.\u00a0 Can you just talk about your nerves going back to the\u00a0?? you’ve done this over and over, but surely you just still have them cranking inside you even though we don’t see it going back on the tee on the first playoff hole.\u00a0 Can you just describe that?<\/p>\n
INBEE PARK:\u00a0 Yeah, I mean today overall I just felt so comfortable, since last night and this morning, all day today, just before playoff I just felt like it was just a third round almost.\u00a0 I didn’t feel any nerves at all today really.<\/p>\n
Once Brittany missed that par putt, I just\u00a0?? all of a sudden I felt the nerves, and when I was going to the tee for the playoff.\u00a0 I think that’s when everything really started to come into my mind because I actually have an opportunity to win this tournament.\u00a0 And like all different thoughts really came into my mind when I was riding that cart to that tee.<\/p>\n
And yeah, I just tried to tell myself that I just did this last week, and you know, it’s nothing else or it’s just another hole.\u00a0 Just tried to do whatever I did all day today.\u00a0 And yeah, I think having the experience definitely helped.\u00a0 It kind of flashed back how I played last year here in the playoff, and yeah, I think I felt a lot more comfortable after thinking that I’ve been into many playoffs so it’ll be just another one.<\/p>\n
KELLY THESIER:\u00a0 Inbee, last year six wins and now you’ve been able to capture two so far this year.\u00a0 And I know everybody was talking about how difficult it was going to be to repeat last year.\u00a0 How are you feeling so far about how you’ve been able to come back this season and still play some tremendous golf?<\/p>\n
INBEE PARK:\u00a0 Yeah, I think this year was always going to be a tough year after having such a great year last year and being able to match that this year and match the expectations I had last year was always going to be tough.<\/p>\n
You know, I feel like so far this season I’ve really handled myself well in this position, and you know, it feels like I’ve played some good golf.\u00a0 And I played very consistently this year.\u00a0 Yeah, just like I said, I just sometimes didn’t get that lucky as last year.\u00a0 Sometimes I just didn’t putt as well.\u00a0 But I feel like I’m doing pretty good.<\/p>\n
Q.\u00a0 Inbee, two shots.\u00a0 How difficult was the chip at 18 in regulation, which you didn’t hit real good but you made the great putt, and then the chip in the playoff.\u00a0 How tough was that coming down elm?<\/p>\n
INBEE PARK:\u00a0 Yeah, both times, first time I had probably the worst lie.\u00a0 Grasses were all like tangled together.\u00a0 I was really into the grass.\u00a0 And yeah, it was a very tough chip.\u00a0 It was going up the slope where I had a bad lie.\u00a0 It was very tough shot.<\/p>\n
I just told myself maybe give some kind of opportunity at a par and we’ll deal with the putter, not thinking so much about the chip.\u00a0 And in the playoff hole I was actually not that bad of a lie, and it was just a downhill grain, so you just have to be really careful.\u00a0 And you know, I felt like my chipping was, you know, pretty good this week, so I felt quite confident over that chip.<\/p>\n
KELLY THESIER:\u00a0 Any other questions for Inbee?\u00a0 Well, Inbee, thank you very much.\u00a0 Congratulations.\u00a0 And now we have the fireworks show.\u00a0 Good timing.<\/p>\n
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