Q. All right joining me today after the third round of the CME Group Tour Championship is Gaby Lopez. Unbelievable round today. You tied the course record and beat your personal best. What's going through your mind right now?
GABY LOPEZ: Yeah, I don't know. Golf is a crazy sport. You know, I think that I just got to give all the credit to my team. They have done an unbelievable work with me. They have stuck with me in the lows and the highs. Today is a high and tomorrow we don't know what's going to happen.
But, yeah, very proud of all the work we've put in during the year. Last year I missed CME. I was 61st for half a point. Today I'm standing here with an unbelievable round.
I'm just trying to embrace it. I'm trying to enjoy it and, I don't know, just be proud of the girl that still is trying to have fun out there.
Q. Obviously moving day gets thrown around a lot in golf. You seem to be someone that really, really capitalizes on Saturday rounds. Is there something about yourself that you think you hit your stride about halfway through the tournament?
GABY LOPEZ: I feel that like the beginning of the tournament, you know, you don't know exactly how is the course playing or what are the conditions.
The more you play it I feel that you kind of feel more comfortable out there. I'm someone that likes to stick to my feelings on my swing and I was just very present with that. I was just reminding myself of all that.
I think today if I could describe it with one word it would be just being really present.
Q. You are a Girls Golf ambassador and we have a lot of the Girls golfers out here this week cheering you on. What does it mean it serve as such a role model and inspiration to these girls and getting to see them in person?
GABY LOPEZ: Yeah, being a Girls Golf ambassador, I said it last week, it's just a huge honor. I was one of those little girls, and for sure we're going to see some of them on Tour in a couple years.
I don't know, being able to inspire them a little bit or a lot, it's what we work for. It was me standing out there, and golf really changes lives and just sport. I feel that we have such an amazing platform that we have to be responsible and make use of it.
Q. You're one of the few Mexican players on Tour and you had a lot of fans out there cheering you on in Spanish. What does it mean to represent your country in this way?
GABY LOPEZ: Yeah, honestly, doesn't matter where I am, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, you call it, there is always Mexican out there and they're trying to follow us.
It feels amazing to have the support and the passion from an amazing country. So, yeah, I don't know. I feel that I try not to put so much expectations and pressure on myself, but it's really cool to see how passionate we are and how much we cheer on our players in not only golf but every sport.
Q. Obviously a lot to be proud of today and you should take the time to soak it in, but any thoughts about tomorrow or heading into the final round?
GABY LOPEZ: Yeah, I feel that today, this morning, I told myself I'm going to give myself a goal for the week, the weekend, and it's going to be truly enjoy every minute out there on the golf course.
It sounds very cliche, but when you truly get to that level of just pure enjoyment and pure joy out there, I don't know, it feels like everything clicks a little bit better.
I don't know. Tomorrow we don't know what's going to happen. Just being brave and enjoying myself out there.
Q. Going off that, that's something that Lindy Duncan said a lot in her speech. I don't know if you saw it at the Rolex Awards. Did you have any reaction to that yourself and seeing what she said?
GABY LOPEZ: Yeah, I had a great conversation at Malaysia airport with Lindy. It's really awesome to see when perspective changes everything changes. You just have to be brave enough to go inside and dig inside and face all those fears and doubts and all the uncertainty that makes us uncomfortable.
I don't know, once you kind of make peace with that, everything becomes much lighter, everything becomes less stressful. I don't know, I feel like that's what I try to do, a lot of inner work to truly discover what makes me angry, mad, anxious, stressful and just trying to make peace with that.
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