WEBVTT - Episode 18: Solheim Cup Preview 0:00:00.400 --> 0:00:02.400 The guys from paying. They've kind of showed me how 0:00:02.480 --> 0:00:05.120 much the equipment matters. I just love that I can 0:00:05.200 --> 0:00:07.160 hit any shot I kind of want. We're gonna be 0:00:07.160 --> 0:00:09.040 able to tell some fun stories about what goes on 0:00:09.080 --> 0:00:12.080 here to help golfers play better golf. Welcome back to 0:00:12.080 --> 0:00:15.360 the Pink Proving Grounds Podcast. I'm Shane Bacon, no Marty today, 0:00:15.520 --> 0:00:19.080 but I'll say we have a couple of high level 0:00:19.880 --> 0:00:24.960 people stepping in, Alison Corpus and Leona Maguire joining. Can 0:00:25.000 --> 0:00:26.840 I ask you guys a question off the top that 0:00:26.880 --> 0:00:29.360 has nothing to do with Solim Cup because it's something 0:00:29.400 --> 0:00:31.400 I've been battling with. Alison, I'll tee you up on this, 0:00:31.640 --> 0:00:33.879 and Leona you can jump on the back end. What 0:00:34.080 --> 0:00:39.760 is y'all's caffeine intake tournament days? Because I'm having a 0:00:39.800 --> 0:00:43.879 hard time tournament days understanding. Do I go like a 0:00:43.960 --> 0:00:46.280 regular day amount of coffee or do I kind of 0:00:46.280 --> 0:00:48.040 scale it back because I'm starting to get the kind 0:00:48.040 --> 0:00:50.640 of caffeine jitters on the golf course. So Allison, where 0:00:50.680 --> 0:00:53.240 do you go caffeine wise, you know, on big days 0:00:53.240 --> 0:00:54.120 of tournaments. 0:00:54.440 --> 0:00:56.920 Yeah, So I am actually pretty no caffeine in my 0:00:57.160 --> 0:01:01.720 entire life. I'm really sensitive to caffeine, and yeah I 0:01:01.840 --> 0:01:03.520 use it at Bay in college, like if I needed 0:01:03.560 --> 0:01:06.920 to pull an all night or something. But I play 0:01:06.959 --> 0:01:09.840 my best golf pretty low energy, so I don't need 0:01:09.880 --> 0:01:10.279 the bump. 0:01:11.160 --> 0:01:13.280 Leona, do you go coffee in the morning or tea 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:16.320 or anything like that? Or you do you follow Allison's footsteps? 0:01:16.360 --> 0:01:16.560 There? 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:20.839 No, pretty similar, don't. I don't drink coffee. I don't 0:01:20.840 --> 0:01:22.520 need to drink tea if it's like a cold day 0:01:22.560 --> 0:01:24.560 and I need to warm up or something. So when 0:01:24.560 --> 0:01:26.120 I'm home in Ireland kind of for the winter a 0:01:26.160 --> 0:01:28.200 little bit. But tournament why is not really now? 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:30.800 So what you're saying is stop drinking caffee and stop 0:01:30.880 --> 0:01:32.720 drinking coffee in the morning. I will take you guys 0:01:32.760 --> 0:01:36.120 advice for that. Obviously. Solheim Cup is upon us, one 0:01:36.120 --> 0:01:37.840 of the great events in all of golf, one of 0:01:37.840 --> 0:01:40.320 my favorite events in all of golf. Leoner, you had 0:01:40.319 --> 0:01:44.160 an unbelievable solimn Cup at Inverness. I wanted to start 0:01:44.280 --> 0:01:46.880 with that. If we can go back to that, when 0:01:46.880 --> 0:01:49.120 you were thinking about the Solheim Cup in your brain 0:01:49.200 --> 0:01:52.240 as you were a young player into you know, competitive 0:01:52.280 --> 0:01:55.560 and or golf and then into professional golf. What you 0:01:55.640 --> 0:01:58.360 thought of the Solheim Cup versus what it was? Was 0:01:58.400 --> 0:02:01.160 it close? Was it not even close? How is that 0:02:01.240 --> 0:02:03.560 experience in your first one versus maybe what you thought 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:06.440 the experience would be, Like, Yeah, I. 0:02:06.360 --> 0:02:08.560 Mean you grow up watching the Solim Cup on TV. 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:11.679 I suppose I was fortunate enough to pay two junior Solheims, 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:15.000 so kind of got the experience and on a little 0:02:15.000 --> 0:02:17.040 bit of smaller scale obviously got to play, and then 0:02:17.080 --> 0:02:20.080 we got to watch the big teams compete and watch 0:02:20.120 --> 0:02:22.440 them inside the ropes and it just seemed like the 0:02:22.480 --> 0:02:25.240 coolest thing ever. And then yeah, you obviously it's It's 0:02:25.240 --> 0:02:26.880 one of these things you build up in your head, right, 0:02:26.960 --> 0:02:29.840 You build it up and build it up, and sometimes 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:32.240 it can't possibly live up to what you've built it up. 0:02:32.280 --> 0:02:35.200 But I mean for us in invern As, it went 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:38.120 pretty much as well as it possibly cut up a 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:42.280 little bit surrealized with the no fans, But yeah, I mean, 0:02:43.240 --> 0:02:45.400 cant I suppose that that's my first one and it's 0:02:45.400 --> 0:02:47.320 set a pretty high barer for for all of my 0:02:47.400 --> 0:02:48.160 Solngs to come. 0:02:48.760 --> 0:02:50.640 Well, and I know you're going to compete against Allison, 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:52.480 but what are one or two things that you would 0:02:52.480 --> 0:02:55.960 tell anybody playing in their first Solheim Cup about just 0:02:56.000 --> 0:02:57.160 the preparation for the week. 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:02.040 I'm not going to give her too many secrets, but 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:06.399 it's just a long week. I think everybody says that 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:09.200 there's a lot of demands on your time, a lot 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:11.359 of media stuff to do, a lot of extra dinners 0:03:11.400 --> 0:03:13.920 and things like that, and it's a weird week in 0:03:14.000 --> 0:03:17.280 that you actually spend more time preparing than you do competing. 0:03:17.400 --> 0:03:20.079 There's such a long build up and by Tuesday you're 0:03:20.160 --> 0:03:21.880 just you're ready to go. You want to just play, 0:03:22.639 --> 0:03:25.120 So it's kind of pacing yourself I think as the 0:03:25.160 --> 0:03:27.880 week goes so that you're not completely shattered by the 0:03:27.960 --> 0:03:32.440 time Sunday comes. And then one mistake I made last 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:35.800 time was not going to the merchandise tent early enough. 0:03:36.200 --> 0:03:39.960 And then by the time I actually I didn't figure 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:41.600 out that we needed to get flags early in the 0:03:41.640 --> 0:03:43.560 week to get everybody to sign them. By the time 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:46.400 I set my sister leased to get them, they were 0:03:46.400 --> 0:03:48.840 like nearly all gone. So I would definitely recommend going 0:03:48.920 --> 0:03:51.160 to the tent as early in the week as. 0:03:51.000 --> 0:03:54.360 Possible, Alison, shopping early is good advice. I think for 0:03:54.480 --> 0:03:57.160 kind of anybody at any golf tournament. Alison, when did 0:03:57.160 --> 0:04:01.200 the Solheim Cup become a reality in your brain? Because 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:03.360 I mean you've had an unbelievable season, obviously with the 0:04:03.360 --> 0:04:05.240 win at the US Open, but I mean the major 0:04:05.360 --> 0:04:07.680 season has been incredible for you, and we'll get into 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:09.520 that in a bit, But when did that start to 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:11.200 set in that this was actually going to happen. 0:04:11.440 --> 0:04:13.600 Yeah, I mean behind the scenes, Stacy's put in so 0:04:13.720 --> 0:04:17.520 much work as our captain and he actually started having 0:04:18.000 --> 0:04:20.880 you know, bigger dinners with like all of the potential 0:04:20.880 --> 0:04:25.400 team members probably last year in preparation for this Sulheim Cup. 0:04:25.520 --> 0:04:27.560 So it was kind of on my radar, but I 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:30.200 was more on the bubble leading into this year, so 0:04:30.240 --> 0:04:32.320 it was definitely a huge goal of mine. And then 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:34.520 I mean, yeah, I got off to a pretty good 0:04:34.520 --> 0:04:36.880 start to the year and just kind of kept on 0:04:37.040 --> 0:04:40.320 my name climbing up in the rankings. So yeah, I'm 0:04:40.320 --> 0:04:41.880 super excited for my first one. 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:45.200 Well, it's so interesting in golf with these cups. I mean, 0:04:45.240 --> 0:04:48.520 obviously Silim Cup, I mean, Walker Cup, Curtis Cup, you know, 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:51.120 obviously you know, into the President's Cup, everything like that. 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:53.680 They all are typically at the end of seasons, right, 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:56.040 and in golf, a lot of the bigger events are 0:04:56.240 --> 0:04:58.240 earlier in the season. I mean you think about Chevron 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:01.560 or Summer Is obviously that's really impactful, both on the 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:04.920 men's and women's side. What's cool about the Cups is 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:08.440 it gives you something to quote unquote play for towards 0:05:08.440 --> 0:05:11.280 the end of the season. So as you're seenior name 0:05:11.279 --> 0:05:13.640 Allison kind of pop up in text and obviously going 0:05:13.640 --> 0:05:15.640 to these dinners, and then your name's moving up those 0:05:15.720 --> 0:05:18.520 rankings as you're playing this season the game is as 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:21.479 dialed as it is. Is that motivation to kind of 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:23.920 push through the end of the summer even though you've 0:05:23.920 --> 0:05:25.760 had already a great season, one you're gonna remember for 0:05:25.800 --> 0:05:26.320 a long time. 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:29.720 Yeah, definitely. I mean I like to look at it 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:32.200 not so much as pressure, but more just an added 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:35.279 bonus if I do make it. And I mean I 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:37.839 think it's always such an honor to be able to 0:05:37.839 --> 0:05:40.359 represent your country. I mean, I played in one Curtis 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:43.240 Cups and two Palmer Cups, and it's just always fun 0:05:43.320 --> 0:05:46.760 just to switch from the individual sport to a team 0:05:46.800 --> 0:05:47.599 sport as well. 0:05:48.080 --> 0:05:51.200 Leona, what's a mistake that people make, not necessarily in 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:53.520 a Solheim Cup, but in a team format. I mean 0:05:53.520 --> 0:05:55.640 this could be amateur golfers that are playing in a 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:58.760 best ball tournament at their club. You you know you're 0:05:58.800 --> 0:06:01.640 playing for, so that's obviously alternate shot. But if you're 0:06:01.640 --> 0:06:05.360 playing four ball, it's best ball, but you are in 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:07.400 fact playing your own ball. What do you feel like 0:06:07.440 --> 0:06:09.919 as a mistake that players tend to make when a 0:06:09.920 --> 0:06:12.840 team event pops up versus when you're playing an individual play. 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:16.200 Yeah, I mean, I think forms and four balls are 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:19.159 really different. Forsum's is a little bit more about the 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:22.400 combination and the personalities, and I guess you have to 0:06:22.640 --> 0:06:25.279 get along pretty well to sort of gel well together. 0:06:25.320 --> 0:06:27.919 I think four balls anybody can play together, and it 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:30.919 really is about just playing your own ball, focusing on 0:06:30.960 --> 0:06:34.599 your own things. Sometimes in four ball matches it turns 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:37.680 into you have two players, two caddies, and everybody reading 0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:40.120 every pot and all of that, and it takes six 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:42.359 hours to play, and I think that's by the end, 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:45.480 everybody's just so tired they've completely lost track and focus 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:49.800 of everything. So definitely sticking to your own own game, 0:06:49.880 --> 0:06:52.440 regardless of whether you're playing with a big hit or 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:55.520 a short hitter, whatever it is. I think, especially in 0:06:55.520 --> 0:06:57.640 the four ball matches, you're still you're still just trying 0:06:57.640 --> 0:06:59.320 to get the ball in the hole the quickest and 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:02.279 hopefully your partner sort of backs you up on the 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:03.440 holes that you can't come in on. 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:06.479 Leona is something I've always noticed that I feel like 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:08.760 he's like a super nerdy golf thing. But I pay 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:10.680 a little bit of attention to this as you mentioned it. 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:13.320 I mean, there's two players, there's two caddies. Is it 0:07:13.360 --> 0:07:15.960 hard to remember to high five everybody when something good happens, 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:18.080 because you know, you're typically high five in one person 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:20.000 if you make a long putter, you hold out a 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:22.280 bunker shot, but you know you got to go you 0:07:22.400 --> 0:07:24.440 maybe you go your caddy and then you go your teammate, 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:26.280 and then you go the air caddy. Like it's a 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:27.720 lot of high five and fist pumping. 0:07:28.640 --> 0:07:31.760 Yeah. I remember last time Emily was playing with Charlie 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:33.360 in one of the games and she hold a big 0:07:33.400 --> 0:07:34.840 pot I think for a win on one hole, and 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:38.280 she said she looked around to give Charlie a fistbumper 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:40.080 high five, and Charlie was just gone. She was on 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:43.240 the next team already. She had definitely forgotten about that, 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:45.840 but yeah, there's definitely a lot more going on. There's 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:48.560 a lot more energy actually, like in Solam Cup. But 0:07:48.600 --> 0:07:51.480 it's a good energy. It's pure adrenaline, I think that 0:07:51.520 --> 0:07:53.400 week so you kind of just it's all kind of 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:55.960 a blur and you just sort of go with the flow. 0:07:56.560 --> 0:07:58.160 Alison, have you been to Spain before? 0:07:58.520 --> 0:07:59.680 Now it'll be my first time? 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:02.040 Nice? What are you looking forward to outside of the 0:08:02.040 --> 0:08:02.760 golf anything? 0:08:03.400 --> 0:08:05.360 I mean, I heard that the area is just beautiful. 0:08:05.480 --> 0:08:07.440 I heard like the hotel that wre AT's really nice, 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:11.040 the course is going to be great, and I mean 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:13.640 I'll have some family there as well, so just looking 0:08:13.720 --> 0:08:15.120 forward to having them out for the week. 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:17.560 When you travel somewhere cool, you know, I mean you 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:20.320 go to France for a major championship or you go 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:23.920 to Scotland for the Open, do you ever set aside 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:27.280 time to do stuff? Because I think when you know, 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:29.480 people that travel a lot get in this rotation of 0:08:29.480 --> 0:08:31.640 travel a lot of the time. You get where you go, 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:34.439 you unpack your bag, you go to the golf course, 0:08:34.480 --> 0:08:36.040 you do your thing, and you go back to the hotel. 0:08:36.200 --> 0:08:38.440 Do you ever put put aside a little bit of 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:41.280 time to go see kind of the culture or the 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:42.640 city or places around it. 0:08:42.840 --> 0:08:44.679 Yeah, it really depends on the week and like how 0:08:44.679 --> 0:08:50.880 the schedule looks, and also the area. But I'm a big, 0:08:50.960 --> 0:08:53.440 like food person, so I do generally try to go 0:08:53.480 --> 0:08:57.000 into the city and get some food or something, and 0:08:57.040 --> 0:08:59.280 then if there's some like historical site that I know 0:08:59.440 --> 0:09:01.480 is there that I've been interested in going to, I'll 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:03.440 try to put put some time in to go there. 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:07.480 Well, let's talk about the year. Obviously there is Alison 0:09:07.520 --> 0:09:11.040 Corpu's pre Pebble Beach, and then there's Alison post Pebble Beach. 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:14.920 What has been the biggest change, What's been the thing 0:09:14.960 --> 0:09:17.720 that has maybe shocked you or been you know, eye 0:09:17.720 --> 0:09:20.600 opening for kind of your life post what you did 0:09:20.640 --> 0:09:21.040 at Pebble. 0:09:21.960 --> 0:09:26.280 Yeah, I think I've I have a much better appreciation 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:29.560 just for all the other ladies who have won. Just 0:09:29.559 --> 0:09:32.959 been way busier since the win. But no, I mean, 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:35.680 not much has changed in my life as far as like, 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:38.720 you know, my friend's family, like everything has been kept 0:09:38.720 --> 0:09:41.920 pretty much the same. But really just excited for all 0:09:41.960 --> 0:09:45.719 the opportunities that I've had since then. And yeah, I 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:48.720 mean I think there's been maybe a few rounds that 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:50.600 I have a little more confidence in, you know, like 0:09:51.520 --> 0:09:53.160 why can't I make this spot like I won the 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:57.600 US Open, you know. But yeah, I mean not much 0:09:57.720 --> 0:10:00.480 has changed, just kind of trying to keep things. 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:03.920 Yeah, it's a great point you said about why can't 0:10:03.920 --> 0:10:04.600 I make this putt? 0:10:04.640 --> 0:10:04.760 Right? 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:06.679 I mean, I had this unbelievable week, one of the 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:10.080 biggest major championships really in the history of the LPGA Tour, 0:10:10.200 --> 0:10:13.120 just in terms of anticipation and excitement, and you play 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:16.120 so well when you have a down week, you don't 0:10:16.120 --> 0:10:18.680 play great in the first round, things like that. Do 0:10:18.760 --> 0:10:21.480 you feel more pressure considering you're now the US Open 0:10:21.559 --> 0:10:23.600 champion or in a way do you feel less pressure 0:10:23.640 --> 0:10:25.640 because hey, I already checked off my big moment of 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:25.920 the year. 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:29.680 Yeah, I mean I think I've always played better kind 0:10:29.679 --> 0:10:33.360 of feeling like the underdog. So for me, there has 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:38.040 been maybe trying to reset my expectation levels. But at 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:40.079 the same time, like, I'm really happy with how the 0:10:40.160 --> 0:10:42.840 year is gone, and yeah, just really trying to stay 0:10:42.840 --> 0:10:44.480 grateful for everything that's come my way. 0:10:45.160 --> 0:10:47.120 The major season has been incredible. I mean I was 0:10:47.160 --> 0:10:49.360 looking through your results obviously went with the US Open 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:52.439 T fourth, the Chevron T six, at the British T fifteenth, 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:54.760 at the PGA, I mean you made all five cuts. 0:10:55.160 --> 0:10:58.600 That's tough. Golf. Major championships are supposed to test everybody's game, 0:10:58.679 --> 0:11:01.520 complete game. Why do you like you thrive in that environment? 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:04.280 Yeah, I think a lot of it had to do 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:06.360 just with like the goals that I set at the 0:11:06.400 --> 0:11:09.120 beginning of the year. I mean, my swing coach kind 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:11.440 of said like, hey, you're a great ball striker. There's 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:14.720 no reason why these courses don't shoot your game. Well, 0:11:14.840 --> 0:11:16.520 just you know, make sure you're putting in the right 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:18.520 prep for those weeks and make sure you know you're 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:23.559 doing the right things nutrition, exercise, rest. So really just focused, 0:11:24.080 --> 0:11:26.040 not that I didn't focus on my other tournaments, but 0:11:26.120 --> 0:11:29.160 definitely went into those weeks knowing like, hey, like these 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:32.080 weeks are big, these weeks are big, and just really 0:11:32.080 --> 0:11:33.400 trying to prepare my best for those. 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:37.040 Speaking of solid seasons, Leona, I was diving into your results. 0:11:37.280 --> 0:11:39.720 We love talking about winning in golf. I like to 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:42.760 talk about consistency. It's something I've always kind of pushed 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:45.320 in this sport because only one person wins a week. 0:11:45.480 --> 0:11:49.000 You've missed one cut this season, You've been incredibly consistent 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:51.400 on the golf course. What do you look at in 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:53.320 terms of your year, Where do you rank it in 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:56.120 terms of your professional seasons, and what's kind of been 0:11:56.160 --> 0:11:58.200 the good and the bad from twenty twenty three with you? 0:11:58.800 --> 0:12:01.040 Yeah, I mean, like you said, it's been been pretty consistent. 0:12:01.080 --> 0:12:03.079 I think I got off to a nice start this year, 0:12:03.200 --> 0:12:05.160 got a few sort of top tens under my belt 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:08.120 dirty and then I suppose that the highlight of the 0:12:08.200 --> 0:12:12.480 year was the win at Meyer. After finishing second two 0:12:12.520 --> 0:12:14.400 years in a row, is nice to finally get over 0:12:14.440 --> 0:12:17.640 the line and I get that win, So that was 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:20.120 definitely the highlight. Obviously took that into the week at 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:22.360 Bostral after leading through three rounds, would have been nice 0:12:22.400 --> 0:12:24.800 to get the win there, but felt like I pled 0:12:24.840 --> 0:12:27.000 some really good golf and it was a huge learning 0:12:27.080 --> 0:12:29.560 sort of experience for me. So yeah, I feel like 0:12:29.600 --> 0:12:32.199 my game has been really close all year, Like every 0:12:32.200 --> 0:12:34.720 piece is there, just not quite there every week. So 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:37.800 on those weeks like Meyer, when it all clicks together, 0:12:37.840 --> 0:12:40.120 it's great, and then the other weeks it's still a 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:43.959 really consistent performance. And I feel like the standard of 0:12:44.000 --> 0:12:46.079 the upp j is just getting better and better every year. 0:12:46.120 --> 0:12:48.360 You have to do so many things right every week 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:52.480 to finish in the top ten alone win, and you 0:12:52.559 --> 0:12:54.520 also need a few people around you to help you 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:56.520 out as well. You can still play unbelievable golf and 0:12:56.559 --> 0:13:01.760 still not win. So ultimately, I'm just trying improve every year, 0:13:01.840 --> 0:13:04.840 get a bit more comfortable, figure out which which benues 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:08.240 suit me best, and yeah, no, it's it's it's been 0:13:08.240 --> 0:13:10.600 a solid year and hopefully we can finish off as 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:11.440 strong as possible. 0:13:11.559 --> 0:13:12.920 When you guys, I want to ask both of you 0:13:12.920 --> 0:13:15.720 guys this question because I'm interested in the way you 0:13:15.720 --> 0:13:17.560 go about your business on a Sunday when you're not 0:13:17.679 --> 0:13:20.559 in contention. So let's say you guys both make the cut, 0:13:20.880 --> 0:13:23.520 you don't play great on Saturday, you're in fiftieth place. 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:26.280 What is the motivation and what is the conversation with 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:29.560 yourself and with your caddy about that final round when 0:13:29.800 --> 0:13:31.640 you're not gonna win. You're probably not going to finish 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:33.920 in the top twenty, but you still got to go 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:36.160 out there and go about your business. Leona, I'll start with. 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:38.959 You, Yeah, I mean for me, it's it's just trying 0:13:38.960 --> 0:13:41.960 to move up any spots I can. I think there's 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:44.680 always still something to be played for. I think even 0:13:44.720 --> 0:13:47.000 if it's not that tournament, it's it could help you 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:49.440 in the next tournament or five tournaments after that. So 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:52.840 it's more a mentality thing. I think about never giving 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:55.839 up and just always always trying to squeeze every last 0:13:55.920 --> 0:13:59.480 drop out of every event. And for me, like at 0:13:59.520 --> 0:14:02.199 Chevron this year, I was I think four outside the 0:14:02.200 --> 0:14:04.720 cut when I made the turn on Friday and ended 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:07.400 up making the cut, and it wasn't so much important, 0:14:07.400 --> 0:14:09.960 I think for that event as it was for events 0:14:10.000 --> 0:14:12.840 down the line in the season. It's when when you 0:14:12.880 --> 0:14:16.320 have to play golf and sort of make make a 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:19.040 cutter Bertie Bertie hole when you need to. It does 0:14:19.120 --> 0:14:21.160 not really matter what the situation is. I think that 0:14:21.360 --> 0:14:24.080 stands to you. Whether it's in a major, whether it's 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:26.080 on a Friday, whether it's on a Thursday morning, whether 0:14:26.080 --> 0:14:28.280 it's on a Sunday, it's still the same skills and 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:29.320 mentality that you need. 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:33.200 Allison, what is your thought process or going through your 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:36.320 brain and the conversation with your caddy when you just 0:14:36.400 --> 0:14:38.160 don't quite have it on the weekend. But obviously you 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:38.920 made it to the weekend. 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:42.200 Yeah, I mean definitely really similar to Leona, just trying 0:14:42.240 --> 0:14:44.080 to get as many berdies as you count on the board. 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:46.720 It's always nice just you know, finish with a nice 0:14:46.760 --> 0:14:50.240 final round. And like she said, I mean, it's all 0:14:50.240 --> 0:14:52.000 about showing up when it matters. So if you can 0:14:52.000 --> 0:14:53.920 figure out how to show up, you know, when you 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:56.880 don't quite have everything together, then someday in the future 0:14:56.920 --> 0:14:58.640 there's going to be a day where everything's clicking and 0:14:58.680 --> 0:15:00.320 you know, the nerves are starting to get a few 0:15:00.400 --> 0:15:01.800 or something and it's like, hey, like I've been in 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:04.800 this position before, like I made a few birdies coming 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:07.320 in at this event or whatever, like made the clutch 0:15:07.360 --> 0:15:09.280 pot there, and it's really just kind of carrying that 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:10.320 forward into the future. 0:15:11.480 --> 0:15:14.560 Leona, you mentioned no fans at the last Solheim Cup. 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:16.360 Do you feel like this is going to almost feel 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:19.000 like a completely different event considering not only are there 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:21.280 going to be fans, but European fans at that. 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:25.000 Yeah, it's it's I don't really know what to expect. 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:27.400 I think I've talked to a lot of people that 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:29.480 are that are going over from Ireland. A lot of 0:15:29.480 --> 0:15:32.040 people from Ireland have like winter homes down in that 0:15:32.080 --> 0:15:34.440 part of Spain, and I have friends of family going 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:37.800 and I feel like the really cool thing about the 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:40.040 Solon Cup is a lot of people tune in that 0:15:40.160 --> 0:15:43.600 don't normally watch women's golf, don't normally watch golf in general. 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:46.880 Some people it's a it's a two year trip every 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:50.520 that's that they plan around it every single time. And 0:15:50.920 --> 0:15:52.920 I can just drawn from the times that I was 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:55.840 there as a junior, bought in rich Harse Farms and 0:15:55.880 --> 0:15:58.080 in Ireland when it was in Kleean Castle, and you 0:15:58.120 --> 0:16:00.440 know the singing on the first tea and how it 0:16:00.480 --> 0:16:03.400 is and it'll be nice. I suppose this time Ryan 0:16:03.480 --> 0:16:06.200 to have cheers when you do something right rather than 0:16:06.800 --> 0:16:08.760 do something wrong, as suppose. 0:16:09.200 --> 0:16:11.480 They when they actually the fans actually lift you up. 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:14.160 What is practice like in the winter in Ireland? Is 0:16:14.160 --> 0:16:16.400 it pretty brutal? Like when you were growing up? Was 0:16:16.400 --> 0:16:20.440 there a lot of practice days like January fifteenth? Or 0:16:20.640 --> 0:16:21.840 do you kind of put the clubs away? 0:16:22.640 --> 0:16:24.400 No? I mean it's it's one of those things when 0:16:24.400 --> 0:16:25.800 you grow up in Ireland you can't wait for a 0:16:25.880 --> 0:16:27.840 nice day or you won't practice very often. 0:16:27.920 --> 0:16:29.360 So what's a nice day in the winter? 0:16:30.240 --> 0:16:32.640 I mean I compare a lot to Seattle kind of 0:16:32.680 --> 0:16:35.200 once it's dry, I mean it's we get a little 0:16:35.280 --> 0:16:37.160 it's a little bit frosty. Sometimes in the winter. We 0:16:37.280 --> 0:16:40.560 very rarely get snow. We get snow every few years. 0:16:40.560 --> 0:16:42.880 Everybody panics at a couple of inches and then it 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:45.280 goes away and we go back to normal. But I 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:47.440 mean we have we have indoor facilities as well, so 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:50.440 work on the track man, work on potting inside as well. 0:16:50.480 --> 0:16:52.320 But you kind of get out there. You put four 0:16:52.440 --> 0:16:54.640 or five layers on and you just you can put 0:16:54.640 --> 0:16:56.320 your beanie on it. You just get on with it 0:16:56.360 --> 0:16:57.920 and don't really complain. 0:16:58.480 --> 0:17:01.360 I moved to the North Feast a couple of years 0:17:01.360 --> 0:17:03.640 ago from Arizona, which obviously, you know, you're not really 0:17:03.640 --> 0:17:06.879 thinking about winter in Arizona at any point. And I 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:09.280 did the double air pants, which was huge, and I 0:17:09.320 --> 0:17:12.600 got one of those like the quarterback pouches that heats up. 0:17:12.920 --> 0:17:14.639 Oh what a game change of that thing, is it. 0:17:14.760 --> 0:17:16.639 I mean, you have to carry multiple batteries for a 0:17:16.640 --> 0:17:19.119 full round. But I'm all in on that. Keeping the 0:17:19.160 --> 0:17:22.400 hands warm very important when it's cold outside. 0:17:21.920 --> 0:17:24.440 You know, yeah, one hundred percent. Keep keeping your head 0:17:24.440 --> 0:17:25.960 on your hands warm, I think your head as well. 0:17:26.000 --> 0:17:28.600 The beanie is definitely a big one for me as. 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:31.600 Well, Leona. You know, for Allison, you play in the 0:17:31.640 --> 0:17:33.919 Solon Cup and you're wearing your country's flag, you have 0:17:34.240 --> 0:17:36.159 you know, USA, You've got I mean, you could have 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:38.919