Anna Davis shares impact of Augusta National Women’s Amateur | Golf Central | Golf Channel [Video]

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0:08 | and this is your golf Central update

0:10 | after a winless 2023 Nelly Corda has

0:14 | three starts on the LPGA Tour this year

0:16 | and two wins her latest C at the fur

0:19 | Hills seac Championship she regains the

0:22 | number one spot in the Rolex world

0:24 | rankings and she now has 10 career wins

0:27 | on the LPGA Tour she talked about f in

0:31 | La yeah I mean I I think um I paused at

0:36 | um8 for a pretty long time I mean seven

0:40 | and then um after 2021 I felt like you

0:43 | know I I kept racking them up I guess

0:46 | the wins and golf was so much fun and

0:48 | then 2022 I got one at the end of the

0:50 | year and last year was a little

0:51 | disappointing with no wins but I think

0:54 | it’s just golf I mean you got to take it

0:57 | as it comes um you know everything

1:00 | happens for a reason and I’m always

1:02 | going to put uh 110% into everything

1:05 | that I do especially with how much I

1:07 | love the game and I just think it’s it’s

1:10 | so much fun competing there’s nothing

1:12 | better than that Adrenaline Rush coming

1:15 | down the your last couple holes and when

1:17 | you’re in the lead so when it comes to

1:20 | wins obviously every event that I play

1:22 | in I want to win but I also just love

1:25 | the experiences of playing in these

1:27 | events and learning more about myself

1:29 | with this wi Nelly you are projected to

1:32 | return to the top of the Rolex rankings

1:36 | was that one of those kind of small

1:38 | goals to you um and if not or if it is

1:41 | what does that say about kind of the

1:42 | state of how you’re feeling about your

1:44 | game just sort of send back to world

1:45 | number one yeah I mean gosh um I feel

1:49 | like the number one ranking almost

1:50 | changes like the wind it’s so back and

1:52 | forth um I would say I am so grateful

1:56 | and so proud that I have the world

1:59 | number one ranking that I got it back in

2:01 | 2021 would I say is it a goal of mine

2:05 | entering the year I wouldn’t say it’s a

2:08 | goal because if I play well and if I if

2:12 | I’m present and if I’m having fun out

2:15 | here that all kind of comes with it so

2:18 | my goals are mainly very present of

2:21 | where I am right now the week I’m

2:22 | playing and um just small little goals

2:26 | will eventually lead you to the big

2:28 | goals

2:30 | invitations to compete in the 2024

2:33 | Augusta National Women’s Amateur were

2:34 | sent in January in a full field of 72

2:38 | players has been confirmed for the

2:40 | championship which will be held April 3

2:42 | through 6 in Augusta 2022 Champion Anna

2:46 | Davis joined us today on golf

2:49 | today delighted to tell you that Anna

2:51 | Davis joins us right now Anna thank you

2:54 | for taking the time to join us after you

2:57 | won the Augusta National Women’s Amateur

2:59 | how much did it how much did it change

3:00 | your

3:02 | life um I mean in so many ways um

3:07 | just um you know traveling across the

3:10 | world playing a bunch of LPGA events um

3:14 | meeting new people having new

3:15 | experiences at just the age of 16 was

3:19 | very lifechanging you know not very many

3:21 | people get to play on the LPGA Tour and

3:25 | playing a ton of majors at just 16 years

3:27 | old and so I’m still very thankful for

3:29 | the opportunities and I think it’s

3:31 | shaped me into the person I am today and

3:34 | how has that person evolved where you’ve

3:36 | gone from

3:37 | Incognito before say the spring of 2022

3:42 | to where you are now in your freshman

3:44 | year at

3:46 | Auburn um I mean just lots of exposure

3:50 | to the media obviously um just getting

3:53 | to meet a lot of people a lot of

3:55 | important people um but I think I’ve

3:59 | just changed a lot in the way I

4:02 | socialize and the way I interact with

4:04 | people you know not very many 17

4:06 | 18yearold girls get to have some of the

4:09 | experiences that I’ve had and so very

4:12 | grateful for that and um yeah I think

4:15 | just having all these experiences has

4:17 | also kind of led me to grow up a little

4:19 | faster than your average teenager and um

4:23 | yeah obviously coming in to Auburn a

4:25 | semester early as well and just having

4:27 | all of these different experiences is

4:29 | growing up pretty fast I live on my own

4:31 | now so just things like that have um

4:35 | really shaped the way that um I act in

4:38 | the way that I am now and these

4:40 | experiences as you phrase it this

4:42 | exposure to use another phrase that you

4:44 | used I’m curious about how you handled

4:48 | the weight how did you handle the weight

4:50 | of expectation that had gone with what

4:52 | you’d

4:53 | accomplished um I think at first for me

4:56 | it was pretty difficult you know

4:58 | obviously being

5:00 | 16 which is still pretty young and being

5:04 | having that be the first time that I was

5:05 | really in the public eye I guess and

5:08 | being seen as a top amateur in golf and

5:11 | um I think at first it was it was hard

5:13 | for me to handle the pressure and the

5:16 | expectations and you know having to go

5:18 | out to a tournament and now having

5:20 | people think okay well she has to win

5:22 | this or she has to do this um I think at

5:25 | first it was pretty tough but um feel

5:28 | like I changed my perspective a little

5:30 | bit and just going out and trying my

5:33 | best and enjoying myself and not really

5:36 | worrying what people think um I know

5:39 | people that are watching want me to do

5:41 | well and so I think just not having the

5:46 | expectations really get to me because it

5:47 | just doesn’t really

5:49 | matter Anna you won the August National

5:51 | Women’s Amer at 16 you made your LPGA

5:53 | Tour debut that year a year later your

5:56 | twin brother Billy Monday qualifies into

5:59 | his first event on the PGA tour and then

6:01 | you both land at Auburn as a package

6:04 | deal on the men’s and women’s team how

6:08 | important was it to share that journey

6:10 | together and ultimately go to the same

6:12 | spot where you are in

6:15 | college um I think we both recognize

6:19 | that it’s a real advantage that we’ve

6:22 | grown up playing together and competing

6:24 | against each other and just being able

6:26 | to feed off each other and when we have

6:28 | an issue um um having that other person

6:31 | there um so I think both of us

6:34 | recognized it would kind of be hard for

6:36 | us to go to college without each other

6:38 | and it kind of just happened that we

6:40 | were going to go to Auburn um together

6:42 | and I’m very excited for him to come in

6:44 | the fall and um yeah but I think just

6:49 | seeing him do well and I think him

6:50 | seeing me do well kind

6:52 | of you know feeds us and it makes us

6:55 | want to do better and um we always want

6:58 | the other to do really well so Anna when

7:02 | you famously won the Augusta National

7:04 | Women’s Amateur wearing the bucket hat

7:07 | did you instantly become the golfer

7:09 | wearing the bucket hat was that

7:11 | something that was normal for you or was

7:13 | it all of a sudden something that was

7:15 | associated with you you’re like

7:19 | how um well the that day I kind of just

7:22 | put on a bucket hat cuz I saw it was

7:24 | going to be a sunny day and I thought oh

7:26 | what a perfect day for a bucket hat um

7:28 | but I had never really

7:30 | worn it a lot um so I kind of I kind of

7:33 | fed into the bucket hat thing for a

7:35 | while but I’ve stopped now I haven’t

7:37 | worn it in a while actually

7:42 | so any chance that you could I mean

7:44 | we’re what a few weeks away now from the

7:47 | Augusta National Women’s amiter any

7:48 | chance you’d dust it off for that final

7:52 | round at

7:53 | austa I might pull it out we’ll see just

7:56 | just to make the people

7:58 | happy

8:00 | and finally just your your expectations

8:01 | you’re getting ready now for your third

8:03 | appearance at the Augusta National

8:05 | Women’s Amer so you you’ve returned once

8:07 | as defending Champion now this will be

8:10 | the the third time you te it up in this

8:13 | event obviously very excited to go back

8:17 | um just playing there any opportunity

8:19 | you get is a blessing and so um just

8:24 | gonna go into the week and enjoy myself

8:27 | obviously had a rough year last year so

8:30 | um just trying to you know get over that

8:33 | and keep in mind yeah I did win the

8:35 | first year and you know I’ve played well

8:38 | on both of these golf courses and so I

8:40 | think it’s just important for me to go

8:43 | out and just enjoy myself and have a

8:46 | good time and um you know play some good

8:50 | golf well Anna we will certainly be

8:53 | watching best of luck as you prepare now

8:55 | for your third Journey to the Augusta

8:57 | National Women’s amiter and for the the

8:59 | rest of the season at Auburn thank you

9:02 | guys thanks for having

9:11 | [Music]

9:18 | me

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