Q. All right, here with Jennifer Kupcho after the final round of The ANNIKA driven by Gainbridge at Pelican. 3-under 67. Unable to track down Linn today, but runner-up finish. Just talk about this week and how great everything was out there.
JENNIFER KUPCHO: Yeah, I think I played really well this week. I guess I don't know for sure, but I feel like in the past years that score would've won. Linn just played amazing. She hit so many good shots this weekend. I played with her both days. Unbelievable golf by her.
So there is nothing you can really do when you're playing against someone that's playing really well. I felt like I played really well, putted really well. Really just excited for next week.
Q. And are you able to put into words kind of what those words or emotions were like coming down the stretch when you have a chance to win a tournament.
JENNIFER KUPCHO: I think it's kind of everything you work for all into one thing. So, yeah, I think it's just you shake a little bit. I don't think I was nearly as nervous coming down the stretch as I was meeting Caitlin Clark this week, but, yeah, I think it's just something you kind of get used to as you keep playing.
Q. And then with a birdie, an eagle on the 2025 Aon Risk Reward Challenge, you won. $1 million richer. How nice is that to hear after finishing second here now?
JENNIFER KUPCHO: Yeah, I think I was stressing about it really all like the last three weeks. Really stressed about it obviously this week. But to be able to make an eagle, that was insane on Friday and pretty cool.
I mean, obviously it wasn't just that one round, one hole, it was the whole year. Yeah, to be able to say I'm a winner of Aon Risk Reward is pretty cool. I've been pretty close the last couple years. To finally get it done is awesome.
Q. We talked to your caddie a little bit this week. You guys had a strategy on 14 of just go, go, go every time. Can you speak a little bit more to that?
JENNIFER KUPCHO: Yeah, I think, I mean, really on all par-5s I am kind of in the nature of just send it and see what happens. I certainly was that way all week with that hole, but I think it's just trying to get up there as close as possible. It's a really hard hole. Really hard hole to eagle honestly. So to be able to have thrown one in is pretty sweet.
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