MASTERS TOURNAMENT

April 5, 2022

Daniel Berger

Quick Quotes

Q. How many is this for you now, Masters?

DANIEL BERGER: This is my fifth one.

Q. I think when I interviewed you at your first Masters, you shared with me you weren't a big sports on TV guy when you were a kid. Wasn't like this place that you necessarily dreamed of going and all that stuff. Five years in, has the mystique grown a little bit for you? What's special about it for you?

DANIEL BERGER: I think the more times you play here, the more special it becomes, and obviously, it's a major championship, and you want to win majors, so it's one of the biggest events of the year, so we do everything we can to come here and do our best.

Q. What is unique specifically about Augusta National and the Masters for you?

DANIEL BERGER: I just think it's the history and how many of the great players have won here; and walking the same fairways and putting on the same surfaces, it's just a cool place to come to.

Q. Why do you think that is? That's unique for a kid that plays golf, and I don't know the history of when you really started taking it seriously, but why do you think it is that you just never got swept away by that type of stuff?

DANIEL BERGER: I think probably just because I grew up more of a tennis and soccer fan than really a golf fan, and just happened to kind of fall into this profession, but it's a treat to come here every year, and it's something that you circle on your calendar, and you do your best to play your best here, so it's exciting to be here.

Q. You've been busy the past couple of days out there. What are some of the things that you're specifically working on with your game, and what are things that you have to specifically do here to prepare? I know the walk is one thing to get used to.

DANIEL BERGER: Mostly it's just the putting. The undulations out here are pretty severe, so getting used to that and the speeds of the greens and just getting used to the whole place. Every time you come back, it feels like you're kind of playing it for the first time again, so it's just part of the process like any other year.

Q. You have always struck me as an even-keel guy who is neither too high or too low. After the disappointment at the Honda Classic, what sort of have you done to sort of regroup? I don't think you ever really felt like it was a major hit or anything like that.

DANIEL BERGER: Listen, golf is a challenging sport, and you're going to have your good days, you're going to have your bad days. I happened to have a bad day on a week where if I had played well, I would have won the golf tournament.

But there are so many more opportunities to look forward to that you have to take the positives out of it and learn from it, and hopefully I'll be able to use some of those experiences this week.

Q. Do you stay with your family when you are out here?

DANIEL BERGER: Yeah.

Q. Like a big house?

DANIEL BERGER: Just a house, yeah.

Q. Just one question about the 15th. They've repositioned the tee and lengthened it a little bit there and changed -- can you tell me what's different in the fairway?

DANIEL BERGER: I don't really remember much about the fairway being different other than that we're playing from 20, 30 yards further back, so used to hit 5 or 6 iron in, and now you're hitting a 5 wood or 3 iron in, so it's one of those holes where it's hard to hit the green.

Q. Do you have a number where you're green light, yellow light?

DANIEL BERGER: A lot of it depends on pin position, wind, but, yeah, obviously, first off you have to put it in position to even have a chance to do that.

Q. How impressed are you with Tiger's resilience in trying to play here?

DANIEL BERGER: He is the greatest to ever play, so to speak see him out here after such a devastating injury, it's great for the game.

Q. Thank you.