LPGA Q-Series

Thursday, December 1, 2022

Mobile, Alabama, USA

Magnolia Grove

Riley Rennell

Quick Quotes


Q. Did you go to college to play golf? If so, where did you go?

RILEY RENNELL: I did not, but I was going to commit and I was going to go to University of Georgia. But I had a weird birthday so I was 18 my senior year of high school, so that year I was able to play in Q-School, so I got good Epson Tour status.

So I played, and when I needed to finish up in U.S. Am and things like that like when I was still amateur, and then I turned pro.

Q. What is your career-best finish and/or your biggest accomplishment so far in your career?

RILEY RENNELL: Career-best finish was solo second in the Epson Tour Championship at 22-under.

And another one of my best accomplishments was inaugural year at Augusta National. Got to the finals and I came in third overall, but I was the first like woman to be like I guess at Augusta to compete. I won the long drive at Augusta National, so that was fun.

Q. Awesome. And then what is your career-best round?

RILEY RENNELL: Career-best round was 63. It was in a professional Cactus event.

Q. And then why did you decide to pursue professional golf as a career and why are you out here every day playing?

RILEY RENNELL: So I was introduced to the game by my dad, who he's a golf professional also. I've been around it since I could walk, so I just saw all the cool kids playing golf and that's kind of how I picked it up.

Just I got better and better and decided it was something that I wanted to pursue, so that's how I got here.

Q. And then what do you do for fun? What are your hobbies off the golf course?

RILEY RENNELL: For 15 years I have been a martial artist, so I'm a fourth degree Black Belt in taekwondo. I'm into MMA and martial arts. Done that for a long time.

Then I'm also a painter and illustrator.

Q. And then if you weren't -- this is the hard one -- if you weren't a professional golfer what do you think you would be doing for a job?

RILEY RENNELL: Probably either like one of my hobbies. I would be a taekwondo teacher or competing in taekwondo or some type of illustrator or something like that, professional artist.

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