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Saturday, April 5, 2025

Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

Shadow Creek

Maja Stark

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Q. Okay, here with Maja Stark heading to the quarterfinals after today use match against Brooke. Can you just talk about the match today?

MAJA STARK: Felt like we both started a little bit rocky. You know, it's really windy and the pins are what they are.

Then I started on -- was it 7, 8, 9, I made birdie, birdie, eagle, so I got a couple there.

Then I just kind of kept it going until the end there.

Q. Was it something about that stretch of holes that you can be really aggressive about. Something like a switch, let's turn it on here?

MAJA STARK: Not really. You know, they moved the tee up on 7 on the par-5, so just had a 3-wood and 6-iron into a par-5 which is always nice.

Yeah, no, just felt like I was daring to be a little bit more aggressive there with my swing because it's been a long week and my coach has been with me the past few days but he left yesterday. So in the warmup I was kind of searching a little bit for my swing.

Then, yeah, I think I started to find it out there.

Q. And I was going to ask you didn't play a ton of holes today. How much do you think that will help in the afternoon?

MAJA STARK: I don't know. I don't like to predict stuff like that, but, yeah, it's kind of nice with a little longer break.

Q. Anything you learned about Shadow Creek over the past couple days?

MAJA STARK: It is the hardest course in the world probably. I mean, it's so firm, so fast, and there are so many times during these rounds where you just go, well, I can't go towards the hole here. On chips even. You can be ten meters from the pin but still can't go towards the pin.

Yeah, just a little silly, but it's a perfect match play course.

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