• How confident do you feel for the 2010 season?I am very comfortable with my game.. Last year I have learned a lot about the game in general and about my game. I feel like I have been able to put several aspects of my game together and rise to a higher level. I feel ready to compete and experience the Ladies European Tour
  • Which events are you most looking forward to on the LET this year? Since my focus this year will remain mostly in America (on the Duramed Futures Tour) I will not play many events on the LET. However, I am looking forward to any event I will play in Europe. I had my first experience in New Zealand this year and I had a great time. In the end every tournament is the same, you have a golf course you compete against and hope your best efforts that week will earn you the trophy.
  • What are your ambitions? My long term goals are to be Top 10 on the World ranking, and play in the Solheim cup. More short term; I concentrate on the Duramed Futures Tour in America because I want to compete full time on the LPGA. On the LET I want to gain more experience and learn to win while competing on a high level.
  • What are you working on in your game? Putting is my main focus; developing a consistent routine and rhythm.
  • What are the best bits about being a professional golfer? Getting to go a lot of different places and meet all kinds of people from different cultures and get to learn from them.
  • What are your hobbies away from golf? I enjoy cooking, rock climbing, hiking, field hockey and sailing.
  • If you weren’t a golfer, what would you like to be? I always wanted to be a PT (physical therapist), however, I would have to go back to school for 8 years to become one. Nowadays I think I would enjoy going through culinary school and become a chef or working as a golf coach with good players.
  • What car do you drive? Toyota 4Runner
  • What is your favourite golf course in the world? Whispering Pines, Texas USA.
  • What performance has given you the most satisfaction? In my last year at the University of Southern California (USC) we won the NCAA Championship. It was very satisfying because all my four years it was the goal to win every year and finally we did. That year everything came together and even tough we had 3 wins in the months before we stayed for focused for the ‘final.’
  • Which golf rule would you abolish or amend? That you get penalised when the ball moves due to the wind when you have grounded the putter. Putting is difficult enough, especially in the wind, no need to have the concern of hanging your putter above the ground as well.
  • Which sports teams do you support, if any? I support any sports team at USC, the New York Jets (American Football), and of course any Dutch sporting team (especially field hockey)
  • What was the last sporting event you went to see? Kraft Nabisco Championship
  • What’s your all-time favourite movie? Gladiator.
  • What would be your menu for the following year if you were male and had won the US Masters? Beef Carpaccio with parmesan cheese and arugula salad, crème of Mushroom soup, a vegetable pasta dish with spicy pink sauce, hot chocolate soufflé.
  • What’s the best advice anyone has ever given you? Everything is a process…there is always another day, a golf career never depends on one shot, day, round or tournament. There is much more in life than just golf.
  • What is your first golfing memory? Freezing cold youth lessons with a fire in the snow.
  • If you could play golf with any three other people in the world, who would you choose? Yani Tseng, Lorena Ochoa and my coach Chris van der Velde.