MASTERS TOURNAMENT

April 9, 2021

Abraham Ancer

Quick Quotes

Q. Tell us about your round today. I think that was your -- that laser focus that you have after something happens.

ABRAHAM ANCER: Yeah, I'm happy with the way I played. I hit the ball really well all day. Obviously, I wanted to be a little lower than that, but I'll take it. I wanted to be close to even par or under par for the event, and now I'm in striking distance to have a good chance of moving up the leaderboard.

Obviously are the leaders are a little bit ahead, seven strokes, I believe, but you never know what can happen at Augusta. I need to take it low, really low these next two days, but I'm happy to be playing on the weekend.

Q. Can you describe last night when you got notified, how it was, where were you? And the whole thing.

ABRAHAM ANCER: Yeah, that was obviously weird. I've never experienced anything like that. I was already at the house I rented here. We were about to have dinner. We were grilling out, and I got a call from Augusta National telling me that they wanted to show me a video on my bunker shot on 15. Obviously, I had no idea what it was about.

Then, well, they notified me they were going to give me a two-stroke penalty for touching the sand. Obviously, I was pretty amazed because I had no idea that had happened. You needed a really good camera with some good zoom to be able to see that I touched the sand.

It was pretty minimal, but I can't complain. I was holding the club, so I'm the only one liable for that. You've got to move on and make some birdies.