CME Group Tour Championship

Friday, November 17, 2023

Naples, Florida, USA

Tiburon Golf Club

Jenny Shin

Flash Interview


Q. All right, I'm here with Jenny Shin at the CME Group Tour Championship. Solid round today, included a hole-in-one out there. Can you walk us through the shot and how it went?

JENNY SHIN: 141, right to left into the wind; hit just a solid 8-iron. It was drawing into the hole; landed five feet short, and I saw it hop in the hole.

The crowd went wild, so I was like, oh, okay, hole-in-one; I'll take that.

Yeah, felt great.

Q. And was that your first hole-in-one?

JENNY SHIN: No, that was my fifth hole-in-one.

Q. And then there is a donation every time someone gets a hole-in-one out here to St. Jude's. What does that mean that your hole-in-one is benefitting them as well?

JENNY SHIN: You know, I'm really glad it benefitted someone. You know, I think CME is pretty amazing for doing such work, so I'm glad I can contribute to something.

Don't think it contributed much to my round, but, hey, as long as it goes somewhere, very happy about that.

Q. You did still have a solid round out there. Anything that stood out to you about how you played today? Putting?

JENNY SHIN: Well, the last two rounds I've been putting pretty poorly, so the hole-in-one definitely helped. Yeah, I was like anything to not putt. I'm very happy about that.

Q. You said fifth ace. Is that fifth lifetime ace? Because I know you've had two out here.

JENNY SHIN: Fifth lifetime ace and fourth one in a golf tournament.

Q. Awesome.

JENNY SHIN: I seem to do most of mine in tournaments.

Q. Do you remember where the -- I know there are two out here on the LPGA, right?

JENNY SHIN: Yeah. One was the British Open and the other one was at now Chevron.

Q. That's kind of cool.

JENNY SHIN: Yeah, so two majors, yeah.

Q. Where was the other one?

JENNY SHIN: My first ever was U.S. Am. I remember the hole vividly. I just don't remember the name of the golf course.

And the other one was at home course in Long Beach, California.

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