Sophomore Klara Hurtova met with the media on Wednesday, April 30; Hurtova was selected to participate in the Lubbock Regional, hosted by Texas Tech, May 5-7.
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Well, you’ve had some time to think about it. I mean, obviously, you know, you’d like to be there as a team, but what does it mean to to qualify as an individual and be able to play on your home course next week? You No, I can hold. You’re fine. Uh, I mean, it’s really it’s amazing. I’m really grateful for this opportunity to play as an individual. It was really sad that we missed it by one spot, second time in the row, but it’s going to be fun. And you can just look who at whoever’s asking the question. You might look at the camera. Uh, how how much does not only playing here, but what last year you finished tied for second, right? Um, what can you draw from your experience playing here? Not only just practicing here, but it being able to do so well in an actual uh tournament as well. Uh, last tournament I played pretty good the first round, but not my best golf. So, I feel like on this score, since it’s really open, you don’t really need to hit the balls that straight and that good to play good score. And then I pretty much saved it the last round. My putting was really good. So I think it’s playable even if you’re not in the best shape, which is really nice. How do you think you’re playing going into Monday? Uh it’s been up and down last few weeks. So I’m trying to fix some things in my swing now. So I hope it’s going to be fine for next week. What’s a typical day like for you, I guess, leading up to this? What have you been doing this past week? And what’s this weekend going to look like before you I mean it’s finals. Uh finals are coming so I had to study some days. So I usually go to school in the morning and I come here around 1:00 p.m. and then leave around 5 6. So it’s not nothing crazy. Just talk about how your team is maybe helping you, giving you maybe a little advice or just pouring into you. Just talk about how they’re pushing you being an individual. Yeah, they are really supportive. I love them. They are so nice. As I said, it’s really sad that we missed it by one spot, but they are really nice and they are playing with me if I don’t want to play alone. So, that’s really nice. How was your first win experience like last month? I’m sorry. How was your first win experience back in in Augusta when you got your first win? Oh, it was amazing. I really didn’t expect that. I was not playing really good the practice round so I was like okay we’ll just try to hit greens and make putts and it happened to be really good round so I was really grateful for that. What holes here you think you play the best out of the balls course? Probably the par fives. The par fives are playable. You can hit the green with the second shot. So yeah par fives and there are so many wedges on this course. So I think many birdies going to be playing this tournament. What was your process like coming to Leic? Obviously you’re from Czech Republic kind of how did you meet coach and how did you kind of end up being here? So I texted many schools and Texas Tech was always my number one. So I had a few phone calls with coach and I was like if she going to offer it I’m going to accept like right now and she did. So I was like what’s level of play like compared from Europe to the US when you got here? Uh, US is just so big that I know like I don’t know that many players. I know the top ones, but in Europe, if I go to a tournament, I know like main of them. So, I just think it’s the number, the defense, the number. You mentioned uh finals coming up. What are you studying? My major is communications. Communications. Yeah. Anything else? Thank you.
