Q. Nasa, 7-under 65 today. Take us through the low round for you. Bogey-free performance as well.
NASA HATAOKA: Yeah, there was actually a couple holes where I actually had a bogey chance but I wasn't able to make the par. (Indiscernible).
Q. What went into the round? What was feeling good to shoot so low today?
NASA HATAOKA: Yeah, especially my iron game. I was feeling really good. I was hitting the pin a lot of times, so I feel like my iron game helped my game today a lot.
Q. How did the course play today? I know you had a few practice rounds. How did it play with the new course renovations?
NASA HATAOKA: Yeah, so there was actually -- the greens were pretty -- there were holes where it was fast and where it was slow, so I kind of needed to adjust on that.
Hopefully I can do that tomorrow.
Q. Four birdies in five holes on the front nine. After that, is that when you felt like you felt really good and you would have a good round today?
NASA HATAOKA: Yeah, my iron game has been really good but didn't click, didn't match with my putting, so first half I was able to do that, so I'm really happy with it.
Q. Playing with Min and she got off to that great start. How much does that play a factor for you when you're both playing so well? Does that add to it for you?
NASA HATAOKA: Yeah, definitely playing with her helped me a lot. At the beginning we birdie at the same hole, we had kind of same momentum going, so I think playing with her was really enjoy.
Q. So golf is obviously a very mental game. How nice is it to go into tomorrow minus 7 and just kind of build and have confidence for tomorrow and the next three days?
NASA HATAOKA: Yeah, this course usually everyone hits low scores, so it's really important for me to play four good rounds.
So hoping to do that for tomorrow, too.
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