Q. Dewi Weber is with us now at the 2026 KPMG Women's PGA Championship. Dewi, really solid start for you today. What can you tell us about your opening round?
DEWI WEBER: I just played really good golf. I swung at my targets and I hit the ball pretty straight with few exceptions. That's golf. That's going to happen.
I was really good on the greens I think and I stayed up well having missed quite a few putts inside 15 feet, but I think these just a good sign of good ball striking. No, I'm pretty happy how it went today.
Q. Looks like scrambling was a factor for you today. And then greens in regulation, which is a big element here, no? How happy are you about that?
DEWI WEBER: Yeah, I don't think I missed lot of greens today and the greens that I hit I want to say like I hit them quite close with a few exceptions.
And then, yeah, if it I did miss a green I think I got up and down on all of them except for one, and that was kind of funky lie and the ball came out a bit hotter than I expected.
I was quite glad I made bogey and not something worse.
Q. Is there something that makes you like focus more or play better and how much do you enjoy this kind of pressure?
DEWI WEBER: No, not really. I try to just pretend like it's not a major to be honest. Like I just try to play golf. If I'm being completely honest with you, I've been trying to do that all season and I haven't been able to find that because my season has been a slightly disappointing one.
So doing a few things differently more so mentally than anything else this week versus the past few months I think is kind of working. But that's not because it's a major necessarily. If anything, probably for a major you want to keep everything the same.
But the way I my trajectory has been this season, it's like, nah, we need to make a little bit of a change.
Q. Can you give us an example of those mental things at least to teach people what they can do?
DEWI WEBER: For me it's a bit of an attitude adjustment, and I don't mean that in like a I have a really hot temper or anything. I think maybe you see me on the course and you think, oh, maybe she's not having the best time of her life and not towards anyone other than myself.
And so this week, I don't know, I'm trying to just hit shots and not really think about where all the misses could be and think about my target and then swing at that target, and whatever I'm going to get is what I'm going to get and I don't throw a fit and I move on with my life and I don't have to punish myself for all the things that I used to be doing.
So I don't know, I'm walking around here quite happily, happy to be playing golf, happy to be hitting shots freely. Golf is so much more fun that way.
Q. It was a pretty tidy round; just the one bogey. Is that just part of your, okay, just keep things simple today?
DEWI WEBER: Yeah, I mean, when I play good, my ball striking is pretty good. Like when I play well and when I play just my normal game my ball striking is good. So I'm not going to miss a lot of greens, not missing tons of fairways; when I do miss them they're not far.
And, yeah, I think when you don't miss a lot of greens and your putting is okay you have to really try to make a lot of the bogeys. Like I think that's just, yeah, when I play well I don't make that many bogeys.
Q. Apologies if you were already asked about this, but you recently posted some very exciting news. Talk about how that changed your perspective at all and what you're looking forward to most about it.
DEWI WEBER: Yeah, it's changed my perspective slightly. I think if anything, I've put a bit more pressure on myself as well. But, yeah, no, I'm super excited that we're going to -- Jen and I are going to be parents in December.
To your point, I think it's made me rethink my life a little bit, and not in the sense like I don't want play golf anymore, but more in the sense of like if I'm going to be away from my family I better make sure that I'm having a ton of fun and having a good time and doing all the things of why I'm out here necessarily, and not being miserable on the course and punishing myself for every bad shot that I hit or every slight loss of focus that I'm having.
So I mean, I think in that sense it's changed my perspective a little bit. I think mostly we're just super, super excited for what's to come. My wife really hopes she stops being nauseous soon. No, very, very stoked, yeah. And, yeah.
Q. Can you talk a little bit, maybe whatever you're willing to share, about finding out and what that experience was like?
DEWI WEBER: So we did IVF so you can kind of plan, but also it's still odds. So I found out in Phoenix I think and then I like just quietly we just called and was like, hooray, and now we just see what kind of sticks sort of situation.
First ten weeks are kind of scary. But obviously it's kind of the only thing Jen and I talk about, very excitedly, once again. And also, kind of scary, like as first time parents probably always have. We don't really know what to expect and it's a big responsibility.
But, yeah, no, it's been really fun kind of like seeing this whole thing play out as like weird as that might sound.
It's been less fun for her just because she's so nauseous all the time. But even that like we kind of laugh about, because you have weird cravings and it's been hilarious going to the grocery store and getting some texts.
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