MASTERS TOURNAMENT

April 10, 2021

Patrick Reed

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Q. Quite a roller coaster round out there. How do you feel like you played and what were the conditions like, especially on the back?

PATRICK REED: I'm just getting nothing out of my golf game right now. On the front nine, hit an iron shot that I took the club that should never go long on 1, I flag it, and it goes over the green. Hit it in the bunker on 2. Hit the only club I could hit on 4 and hit it as high and cutting and landed two yards short of the flag, end up over the green, make bogey. Flag it and miss a good look for birdie on 5. Flag it on 6, short, hit the lip of the bunker. Bad tee shot on 7, make bogey.

Just kind of one of those days. I kept on hitting quality golf shots and just either not making putts or the ball going in the right spot, and just haven't really gotten out of the rounds.

The last hole, felt like I hit the shots I wanted to and make bogey. That kind of sums up how today and the first three days were, very frustrating.

Q. You kind of conquered 13 a little bit.

PATRICK REED: About time. My wife, she always says how pretty the azaleas are. Well, I don't really find them that pretty this year because I keep on being in them on that hole. Yesterday I started the hole with a pure white shirt and afterwards I had purple and pink and every other color on it. Looked like I had a tie-dyed shirt on because I was having to dig trying to find my golf ball.

That's the thing about these par-5s out here, you hit the ball in the fairway off the tee, especially the wind direction it is today, and except for No. 2, you're having mid-irons into the green. I mean, even on 8 today I didn't hit a solid drive contact-wise but hit it in the fairway and whiffed a hybrid, and if it was at the green it was going to be pin high.

Besides that kind of stuff, it's irons into the two par-5s on the back if you hit good tee shots, and some of those par-4s you're able to take advantage and kind of get the ball farther down there and have wedges and short irons in your hands.

Q. 16 and 17, some nice putts there.

PATRICK REED: Yeah, my caddie and I were kind of -- kind of joked to him about the worst iron shot I hit on a par-3 today was 16 and that was the one hole I made a birdie on. The other three I was 2-over par on. That's how golf is. It's a funny game. Even though that one on 16 was not where I wanted it, of course I wanted to get it on top, but you miss it in the right spots you're still able to at worst make par. I was able to kind of steal one there and make the putt there. I feel like the game is there. I feel like I'm doing a lot of things really well. It's just either a bad swing at the wrong time or a missed putt that you need to make or a flagged iron shot that you feel like is going to be in the right spot that either is a yard too far or a yard too short that just keeps putting me where I'm having to play defensive and having to scramble rather than going out and just making a bunch of birdies around here.

Q. If you go back to 2018, that night. You finally got to check your phone. Do you remember how many messages you had?

PATRICK REED: Too many. Man, I think it was just under 200 and then I had a bunch of emails, as well. It took me -- I couldn't sleep well that night -- didn't really sleep at all Sunday night. I was just responding. I felt like I got through almost all of them by the time I was done with the New York trip on Monday.

Q. What do you remember about that evening, the interviews and the ceremonies and all of it?

PATRICK REED: The best thing happened to me when I finished, and of course receiving the Green Jacket, it was a huge honor, but after I had the jacket when I went back after my press conference and went to Butler's cabin, and I didn't know my daughter and the whole family were there, and my daughter comes out, and when she opens the door and said, 'Daddy, you did it, I'm proud of you,' and gives me a hug, and I just melted.

That moment was so special to me, to have her here, and then once I got done with the ceremony here and being able to go back and see little baby Barrett back there at the house we were staying at was honestly the best thing that happened the entire week, was being out there and having your daughter say that she's proud of you and that she loves you. It just doesn't get better than that.

Q. Did you do dinner with the membership?

PATRICK REED: Yep, we did, and that was a lot of fun. Got to meet all the members and got to spend some time with them and really just see another side of Augusta National that we normally don't see as just normal -- whether it's either PGA TOUR players or spectators or just people around. To actually be able to spend time with the members is always a treat for me, and I try to eat dinner as much as I can any time I come up here off weeks to sit down with some members and just have a good time.

Q. What was it like to look around the room and see 100 plus Green Jackets?

PATRICK REED: It's amazing when you walk in the room and see all the Green Jackets. Mine I get to go out and play for it and try to earn it on the golf course, and for them to be invited and be the very few select around the world that have the opportunity to be a member out here and to come to such a coveted place and to play such an amazing golf course and be a part of such a small group and to get them all together is really special.

Q. What was it like to play with this guy down there, and how good is that short game?

PATRICK REED: Man, the short game is unbelievable. To go out and play with José and to see how he just is able to plot himself around this golf course -- this golf course is a really big golf course for him. There's a lot of head covers coming off, he's hitting a lot of woods, a lot of long clubs into greens, and to be able to have the control he had with those long clubs and put himself in the right spots, even when you're hitting woods into greens and being able to get it up-and-down and make -- it doesn't matter if it's uphill, downhill, huge breaking putts look easy, it definitely shows why he's won out here and has won, I believe, two of them.