TRANSCRIPT | Chun-An Yu, 2019 Emirates Australian Open, Round 1 - PGA of Australia

TRANSCRIPT | Chun-An Yu, 2019 Emirates Australian Open, Round 1


Chun-An Yu, 2019 Emirates Australian Open, Round 1

KATHIE SHEARER:  What a fantastic round today.  You must feel very comfortable on the golf course.

CHUN AN YU:  Yeah, it feels great.  I’ve played here four, five years ago and so I know the course a little bit.  I played great out there, so hopefully tomorrow I can do it again, yeah.

KATHIE SHEARER:  The better scores actually came in this morning and this afternoon was much more difficult.  So, you’ve got an early start tomorrow, ready to go.

CHUN AN YU:  Yeah, ready to go.  Hopefully tomorrow morning hopefully is not as much wind as this afternoon, so hopefully tomorrow I can shoot a better round and hopefully do better.

Q.  Did the smoke and the ash bother you at all?

CHUN AN YU:  A little bit.  The air didn’t smell really good, but I can get used to it, so no big deal to me.

Q.  We don’t know much about you, where do you play your golf, what’s your background?

CHUN AN YU:  So now I’m playing college golf in Arizona State and I play golf for, I don’t know, 16, 17 years, so I grew up in Taiwan.  In my last year in Arizona State.

Q.  You’ve played here at the Australian Open before too?

CHUN AN YU:  Yeah, played here four or five years ago, yeah.

Q.  Which course?

CHUN AN YU:  This course.  I think 2015.

Q.  The Tournament Matt Jones one?

CHUN AN YU:  Yeah, yeah.

Q.  How did you go that year?

CHUN AN YU:  I think I finished 25th.

Q.  Can you talk us through your round – birdies, bogeys, any highlights?

CHUN AN YU:  I only made one bogey, which was on the 11th, missed a 10-footer putt for par and then I make some birdies.  My highlight probably, I’d say the last one, I had a great number here, 12-feet and then made the putt.

Q.  Two amateurs at the top of the leaderboard, what are you kids doing?

CHUN AN YU:  I don’t know, Takumi is a great player, he just won a professional medal like two weeks ago.  He’s really good.  I don’t know, we just do our own thing and try our best out here and just see what we can do here.

Q.  Do you know Takumi?

CHUN AN YU:  Yeah, we know a long time ago, play a lot of amateur events.

Q.  What’s the mindset from here then, three days to go obviously, but a fantastic start?

CHUN AN YU:  Just try my best, not think about the result that much, just keep going.  Still three days to go.  Still need to play great.  Hopefully you can win out here.  That’s my goal for this week.


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