Q. Can you maybe talk about your approach coming into the day and then the hot start with birdies on four of the first six?
ALLY EWING: Yeah, my approach was just the same as it has been the first two days. I think being in position off the tee is really important. I kind of did that okay. But a lot of holes I was kind of scrambling and managed to hit some good approaches from the rough.
The main thing today was that balls rolled in. I hit it okay the first two days and gave myself a lot of opportunities yesterday, I just didn't convert. There's so much break. It's hard to time up that speed and the line and everything, and I was able to convert a lot of those today. That was the difference maker.
Q. The back nine you birdied 10 and then it was kind of steady after that with a good save on 18. Can you talk about just the back nine?
ALLY EWING: Yeah, I made a lot of good saves. 11 I got the ball up-and-down. Then I got a ball up-and-down on 14 and 15. Then just kind of scrambled in. Like you said, I got that up-and-down on 18.
I hit some okay bunker shots, chips, but the putter saved me. I think I made a 12-footer and a 14-footer on 14 and 15. Just kind of scrambled well on that back nine.
Q. This is your 10th U.S. Women's Open. You've had a good run since 2019. Can you talk about the approach and what you've noticed different from the last time you were at Lancaster?
ALLY EWING: Yeah, last time I was at Lancaster I got in on Tuesday as an alternate, got here on a Wednesday and played a quick nine and walked the back nine as the sun was going down. It was a real scramble from what I recall. I remember the course vaguely.
Yeah, come a long way. It took I don't know how many starts for me to make a cut. That was like a monkey on my back for a long time. This golf tournament means so much to me as an American, so to be here where I made my first start as a pro, first U.S. Open as a pro means a lot. I'm just excited for hopefully a good Sunday to finish off a good tournament.
Q. Can you talk about what you plan on doing before the round Sunday and then your focus going into there?
ALLY EWING: Yeah, just same approach. Hope I drive it a little bit better, so I'm going to go to the range after I go sign some of these kids' stuff.
Drive it better, hopefully give myself more opportunities from the fairway, and trust my ball-striking and then hope I roll it the same as I did today.
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