Pauline Roussin is back competing in Europe this week and the Frenchwoman is buzzing with excitement as she chases win number two of the season at the Ladies Open by Pickala Rock Resort.
It’s been five weeks since we last saw Roussin tee up on Ladies European Tour (LET) when the 22-year-old finished T35 at the Aramco Team Series – Florida event.
Now four months on from her magnificent victory at the Aramco Team Series – Singapore Individual event, Roussin is back in Europe and in a jubilant mood as she takes to European soil for the first time in 2023.
“I’m doing really good,” Roussin says on this week’s episode of the LET Golf Podcast. “Finland is a beautiful country and it’s nice to have some good food from Europe. It’s going to be a great week with great weather and it’s a great course as well.
“I was very eager to play to be honest. I had a couple of weeks off from the LPGA Tour and I didn’t want to just go home and sit on my couch.
“My mum mentioned that this tournament was happening, because obviously I was focused on what was happening in the US, and she was like, ‘Why don’t you go back to Europe to play on the LET?’, and I was like, ‘You know what, that’s a brilliant idea.’ So that’s what I did.
Roussin arrives in Finland off the back of her best performance of the 2023 LPGA Tour season to date – a T8 finish at the Meijer LPGA Classic – insisting her game is now trending in the right direction four months on from her Singapore heroics.
“Finishing in the top 10 is definitely a boost for my confidence and it’s good for what’s coming next,” Roussin said. “I’ve been working more on myself rather than my actually game. That top 10 is very positive but it’s not stopping me from what doing what I’ve been working on. It’s proof that it’s working.
“It’s helped that I’ve started with a new caddie, Gary Marshall, and he knows how to reach out to me on the course when I’m being an oyster and closing myself. Since then we’ve done a lot of good work.
“I’ve also started working with a new mental coach, Patricia, so it’s been a lot of mind work rather than working on my game, because the swing has always been there, I was just struggling with the new pressure that the LPGA has put on me.”
Roussin gets her LET return underway tomorrow at 14:16 alongside Sweden’s Elin Arvidsson and Czechia’s Kristyna Napoleaova – the winner of the Amundi German Masters two weeks ago.
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