What’s the biggest hurdle you’ve had to overcome in your career?
Believing in myself.
If you could take one career mulligan, where would it be, and why?
I probably wouldn’t choose one shot in particular, but I’d go back and tell myself to enjoy the golf a little bit more. But I think if I enjoyed it too much, I wouldn’t have had those years where I won seven or eight times a season. I would definitely like to have had a 35- to 39-year-old head on my shoulders when I was 25 though!
Do you think there should be a minimum age limit to enter pro tournaments? What did you think of Lucy Li’s performance at the US Women’s Open last year at the age of just 11?
To shoot the scores she did at the US Women’s Open was sensational [ed: she missed the cut by seven strokes]. That was pretty impressive. She was an 11-year-old! She actually looked 11. I don’t know … it’s difficult, but if she was my kid she wouldn’t have entered in US Open qualifying.
What has been the very proudest moment of your illustrious career?
It’s hard to pick out just one moment, but I’d have to go for being inducted into both the LPGA Hall of Fame and the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2005 [ed: at the time, she became the youngest living person to get into the Hall of Fame]. I don’t think you can set a higher goal. What I’ve achieved goes way above and beyond what I expected when I started out. It doesn’t even come close.
