Well, I started playing golf when I was five years old. My dad introduced me to the game. It all started as a game. It was really fun to me to just ride the golf cart around the golf course.

I did gymnastics when I was little. So I did a combination of both, and I took dancing classes. But when I was little, I always dreamed of being an Olympian as a gymnast.

So for me, my ultimate dream was to be--

You're close.

It was close, right? And I won a junior event in San Diego, the College Junior World Championship.

How old were you then?

I was 16.

16.

Yeah.

That was the first time you got to come over and see all the other girls?

No. I went-- the first time I came here, it was a junior event, I thing, it was AGA when I was 13 years old. And it all kind of piled up, and growing. And then at 16, I won the College Junior World, and I got 33 offers of scholarship for college.

And you went to Stacy Lewis's school.

I went to the University of Arkansas.

Did you have a coach and stuff? Or did your dad coach you when you were little? How did you become good at 16? Where did you learn your swing?

Well, in my home course, there's always been one golf instructor that has been teaching a lot of kids when they're growing up. And then I switched coaches when I was in my freshman year in college, back in Mexico. So I started working with a different guy.

But yeah, I've always had an instructor. And I have always liked to learn the technique. I've always liked to learn the origin, you know, everything why things happen.

So you're sort of a left-side, or whatever side that is, you're sort of a more of a mechanical thinker, as opp-- or like, not just-- just not-- just do it. You like-- you've got to know why.

I like to know. I think, and what I've always grown up with, I think, a good technique, and it kind of gives you a little more of basics when you're under pressure.

Yeah.

And just relying on those old things that can help you pull the trigger when you have to.

So you went to Arkansas. Did that-- how did you get-- what was it like when you left school and how did you think-- were you good enough when you left school to go on the Tour? You went straight to school?

Yeah, well, for me, Arkansas was the best decision I've ever made in my life. Coming to the States to a different culture to grow up a little bit more independent, it was pretty amazing for me.