MASTERS TOURNAMENT

April 8, 2022

Lee Westwood

Quick Quotes

Q. Lee, 2-over today. How tough was the challenge out there?

LEE WESTWOOD: Yeah, it's tricky. Obviously, it's drying out as the week goes on, and there's a little bit more wind today. At the start it wasn't too windy, but it picked up.

Now you can see as you look across the golf course, the sound is blowing out the bunker, so there's some real strong gusts blowing. I said to Henley coming down 15, there's so many smelly shots out on that golf course today that you need a bit of fortune to hit it at the right time, and you obviously have to play the right shot. Control your ball flight. Control your spin where.

Q. What are the most challenging points of the course?

LEE WESTWOOD: Well, all of it really. You've got to drive the ball well. You're want going to score from the trees, are you? You've got to hit a long way because it's a long golf course.

Then you need to miss it in the right places on a day like today. You're not going to hit all the greens, so you have to miss it in the right places so you are able to get it up and down.

A couple of times out there where, like Russell Henley, who I was playing with, I thought he hit a couple of good shots, and got up there, and he had no chance of getting up and down. I missed in the back trap on 12. Where do you want to be? In the water, sure.

The wind is picking up and dropping. It's just very awkward. Very tricky. You have to have a lot of control and a little bit of luck today. Thanks.