You won your first professional golf tournament at the age of 14. How do you stay motivated when you've achieved so much at such a young age?
Golf itself keeps us pretty humble. It's a very challenging sport - one day you feel that everything is clicking and the next day you have no idea where your game has gone. I love that challenging aspect of golf and no matter what ranked player you are or how well you are playing, there is always something that you can get better at. There is no perfect score - compared to bowling, for example, where you can hit a perfect number. That in itself keeps me motivated and, of course, seeing how well a lot of the ladies on tour are playing is a great motivation and inspiration for me to keep working hard and hopefully put myself in contention more often.

What is it that you look for in a golf shoe?
We spend a long part of the day in our golf shoes. Most of our rounds take five hours and with practice it adds up pretty quick. That's why for me the most important question is: are they comfortable? In fact it does not matter to me if it`s golf shoes or high heels. If golf shoes are not comfortable, I'm not going to wear them.

Do you need to break new shoes in or do you take them out of the box straight into tournament play?
Before I was with ECCO I needed some time before a tournament to break in new shoes. Sometimes I even needed to plaster my heels to not get blisters from new shoes. But now, hand to my heart, I can put a new ECCO shoe straight in to play before a tournament or even on a Friday like I did at the 2020 British Open. I know from experience that I don't need a breaking in process with new ECCO shoes because of the materials and their build quality.

Representing my country at a stage like the Olympics was maybe the best experience I ever had on a golf course.

Do you wear different models and types of golf shoes for varying course conditions?
The great thing about ECCO is the choice of shoe available; I know that I will get just as much traction from the hybrid models as the spiked ones. I've been using the a spiked model since the British Open, but I've also used SOFT CASUAL as well for pretty much a year because I love how they sit so low to the ground. We play in all sorts of different conditions and weather, so to have the option of hybrids or spikes is great. No matter if it's dry or the grass is still wet, I know I get good traction from my ECCO shoes and I'm not going to slip when I'm hitting a shot.


Would you say you feel a performance difference between a hybrid and a spiked sole?
The ones that I'm wearing actually have spikes and elements of the hybrid sole mixed in. I've never had any problems with slipping when playing in hybrid shoes. I even played the Scottish Open, a tournament that can provide some real challenges in terms of weather conditions, in hybrid shoes and never had any problems with traction or stability.

Is matching the colours of your shoes and your outfit important to you? How many pair of shoes do you normally take to a tournament?
If I'm on the road for longer I might take three pairs with me but normally I travel with a couple of pairs of shoes. In that case with the current model of shoes I'm wearing I like the plain white ones because it just matches so well with almost everything. Those shoes are subtle and offer a great mix of being sporty, athletic and a classic golfwear look. I like to pack black or blue models as well, because there's always a hint of white, black or blue in my golf outfit. I do like to mix and match to what colour of clothes I'm wearing that day.

How high would you rank your Silver Medal in Rio amongst your impressive list of achievements?
It's up there close to my major championship wins. I think I went to Rio as the number one player in the world so there was a lot of expectation to win a medal, especially at a smaller field event.

For me, even though I wasn't the gold medalist, winning the first silver medal in women's golf in over a hundred years was a huge honour. Representing my country at a stage like the Olympics was maybe the best experience I ever had on a golf course.