When Yin interviewed the leader
dubai — Americans Angel Yin and Brittany Lincicome may not have had the rub of the green, but Anne van Dam of The Netherlands surely enjoyed their company.
The 22-year-old came up with some monster drives and some amazing birdie putts to take sole lead of the Omega Dubai Ladies Classic after the second round on Thursday.
The Arnhem resident fired a bogey-free round of seven-under for a 10-under at the Majlis Course of the Emirates Golf Club. She leads by two strokes over Scotland’s Kelsey MacDonald, who had a four-under for eight-under.
Yin couldn’t mirror Anne’s performance with three bogeys dotting her four birdies for threeunder. But the American was quite a sport as she turned interviewer to Anne. And this is how it rolled. Yin: Great round today, 7-under. How do you feel? How did it go today? Anne: Yeah, I felt great. I had a good group today again. I played with the loving Angel I didn’t know and Brittany Lincicome. We had a lot of fun today and that helps.
Yin: That’s good. That’s good. Had some monster drives out there with some irons, monster irons out there. How did you feel about your game overall?
Anne: I would say pretty good. I struggled a little bit on some holes. I missed a few fairways and hit a couple of poor irons. But overall, I feel like on the easier holes or easier greens, yeah, I hit it close and got my birdies from there. So sometimes I took it a little bit safe and not hit driver like you on every hole, I sometimes hit a 3-iron or a 3-wood. But yeah, I guess it worked for me today.
Yin: You made some amazing putts throughout the round today. Tell me a little bit about that.
Anne: Yeah, it’s actually quite funny, because I haven’t been putting great at all like the last half year. I changed putters two days ago. I didn’t practice that much with it. I completely got something else, normally I have face-balance, and now I have toe hang. It’s a blade. Normally I have a mallet. So everything is different. But I look the look of it and it’s going well, so maybe that’s the change this week.
Yin: I’m sorry, but if you don’t mind me asking, why did you switch putters? What happened to the other one?
Anne: Well, my putter from last week just needed a break. I didn’t putt well as Q-School, so I was a little disappointed with that putter. So yeah, he couldn’t come this week.
Yin: What are you expecting for the next two days? What are you looking forward to?
Anne: Unfortunately, I’m not playing with you. Maybe on Sunday we can play together. I would love that. I’m just looking forward to go out there again and play two more days. Like it’s the two last days of this season, and I hope to just finish up great.
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