Hollis Stacy on Lydia Ko’s best shot, fast greens and hosting the LPGA

Nelly Korda of the US performs her shot from the thirteenth tee through the second spherical of the LPGA Drive On Championship at Bradenton Nation Membership on January 26, 2024 in Bradenton, Florida. (Photograph by Mike Ehrmann/Getty Photographs)

HS: To begin with, enjoying the golf course with no wind could be very troublesome as a result of the greens are extraordinarily troublesome. Enjoying with wind is a really massive problem. In reality, I went in to examine the pins for tomorrow and there’s one pin that I advised them they needed to change as a result of it’s a 30 mph wind tomorrow.

You’re gonnna miss some brief putts. Be good to your self as you’re strolling to the following tee.

Hollis Stacy placing on the thirteenth inexperienced through the first spherical on the 2021 U.S. Senior Girls’s Open at Brooklawn Nation Membership in Fairfield, Conn. on Thursday, July 29, 2021. (Darren Carroll/USGA)

HS: I hit balls about a couple of times every week. And if I’ve an occasion, after all, I’ll hit balls day-after-day. I play right here perhaps as soon as each two weeks. I play right here and I play Concession (Golf Membership), however I’m quarter-hour from right here.

The LPGA got here in and we wanted a web across the vary, and we put that in at a pleasant charge. We spent in all probability near $1 million on the bunkers.

Mone Inami of Japan putts on the sixteenth inexperienced through the third spherical of the LPGA Drive On Championship at Bradenton Nation Membership on January 27, 2024 in Bradenton, Florida. (Photograph by Julio Aguilar/Getty Photographs)

HS: The greens are nice – TifEagle. Normally we play them at 13 on the Stimp. Everyone comes off the course shell-shocked. (A member mentioned), ‘It’s so onerous; it’s so onerous.’ I mentioned, ‘Don’t fear. If you go off to different programs, you win don’t you?’

Golf followers watch a tee shot on the 18th gap on the 2024 LPGA Drive On Championship on the Bradenton Nation Membership in Bradenton, Florida. (Photograph: Mike Lang/USA TODAY NETWORK)

HS: There have been some members that didn’t need (an LPGA event), and so they have positively modified their opinions. They’re having the time of their lives, and I knew they’d. It’s jammed on the member’s pavilion. They’re all volunteering. … The (gamers) are fabulous. They’re good; they speak; they are saying thanks.

That’s what individuals need.

Nelly Korda of the US performs her shot from the twelfth tee through the second spherical of the LPGA Drive On Championship at Bradenton Nation Membership on January 26, 2024 in Bradenton, Florida. (Photograph by Mike Ehrmann/Getty Photographs)

HS: (Nelly Korda) has an impressive golf swing. She’s the whole package deal; she’s acquired an important mentality. It’s humorous, individuals say ‘Oh she’s similar to her dad,’ and I say quite the opposite, she’s similar to her mother. I believe Regina is extra even-keel.

Lydia Ko of New Zealand follows her shot from the fourth tee through the third spherical of the LPGA Drive On Championship at Bradenton Nation Membership on January 27, 2024 in Bradenton, Florida. (Photograph by Julio Aguilar/Getty Photographs)

HS: I texted (Lydia Ko) after she hit that 3-wood (on the Grant Thornton Invitational), the second shot on 17 with Jason (Day). Put that video in your cellphone. That’s in all probability the most effective swing I’ve seen you make below stress. You do not forget that shot? I’ve chills. She carried Jason.