It's smaller targets off the tee and smaller greens. But the type of golf you have to play – controlling the ball, controlling the flight – is very, very similar. |
Just good solid golf all day. I drove the ball well, hit the middle of the club face a lot of times...and here we are. |
Match play is a situation where you need to win your matches and be aggressive, and I think that's something that I'm trying to use this week as preparation. |
Nothing unusual, no steroids or anything like that, just some good solid drive. If you swing technically better, you will get that extra 10 or 20 yards. |
Once you get them near the hole you just have to roll them in, |
Putting hasn't been a lot of fun the last few months, |
That hole looks like a pair of sunglasses. I don't know what Pete [ Dye ] was doing there. |
That was as anxious as I got today. That was me panicking. |
That's just the level of play today. To separate yourself from a bunch of other very good players, more than likely you're playing some really good golf (or) it's going to be difficult. |
The course could be vulnerable if it's soft and still. But if it's the opposite, firm and breezy, guys will be doing a lot of thinking. |
The course had benign conditions for us. Scores are to be had out there. |
The course has potential to get more difficult, but the greens generally are very round, so there's not many pins that can hide behind bunkers, ... Everything is pretty visible from the fairway, unusual for a lot of the courses we play, even in normal tournaments. |
The fairways are fairly generous here. Enough players are finding enough pin locations. |
The Masters is a very important tournament. You don't want to jeopardize your chances. The sponsors understand that. |
The par-five I made a nice little five-foot birdie putt. That was a sneaky one down the hill. Then I chipped in from over the back of the green on six. It was a very difficult chip and it went in. That was a very fortunate shot there because I really was thinking four would be a good score to walk away with, so three was a bonus. |