MASTERS TOURNAMENT

April 10, 2022

Billy Horschel

Quick Quotes

Q. How did you overall assess the game this week?

BILLY HORSCHEL: You know what, the score doesn't show it, the game is in better shape than what it looks. When you add it up, I played four bad holes the second round. To start off, five holes the first of the start of the second round where I didn't think I played that bad, but I was 4-over after five. Yesterday the last four holes I just didn't play great. Sort of frustrated.

Obviously, didn't play those holes great, so overall, you know, you look at it I played eight or nine holes that sort of cost me from playing -- having a decent week. Obviously, not contending, that's for certain, but it was a solid week.

Game is in great shape. My short game wasn't as sharp as it needed to be, and putting inside 10 feet wasn't as good.

So you add all those up, I'm not contending, and I teed off early this morning.

Q. Was there a little more talking to the golf ball today than normal out of you?

BILLY HORSCHEL: Yeah, I wanted to shoot in the 60s. I have played 28 rounds here, and I wanted to shoot in the 60s today. That was my goal.

I was really into it. A lot of guys can come out not having a chance in the final round and sort of just pack it in and don't care, and that's not me. I was playing for something today.

I had a putt at 18 from about eight feet to make birdie to shoot 69, and I lipped it out. Obviously, I'm going to have to wait another year to try to shoot in the 60s. I played really good today. Bad three-putt at 10. Missed a couple of short ones. I was a little more into it than maybe somebody else would be teeing second off and being 10-over par to start the day.

Q. You don't hide your emotions on the golf course. Never expected Tyrrell to do that. Do you enjoy playing -- he doesn't hide his emotion either, Tyrrell. Do you enjoy playing with him?

BILLY HORSCHEL: I love Tyrrell. Tyrrell is great. He gets upset, but he is over it. He doesn't carry on. He is over it right after he does it, and it's over. You can talk to him five seconds after he got pissed at something, and he is fine.

There's guys out here that mope and pout and carry themselves when they hit a bad shot, and they just are -- they're not fun to play with. I don't mind if someone gets angry, but just don't pout and mope around.

I told the story before. I think it was 2013 I was playing with Boo Weekley and Scott Stallings at Greenbrier, and I was playing well. I just won Zurich, and I just finished top five at U.S. Open a couple of weeks ago, and I was probably a little -- I was a little too boisterous and carried on a little too much. It wasn't like moping, but just boisterous a little too much and carrying on.

Boo just talked he me after the second round and said, hey, you're a great player. It's okay to do -- get upset, but just don't carry it on. You didn't affect us. You didn't affect Scott and I playing, but the last thing I want is somehow you affect your playing partner.

I took that to heart, and I felt like I've always done a good job since then of making sure I don't affect my playing partners, and I can't say -- there's a lot of guys that do a really good job of if they get upset, it's over, but there are a few guys out here that you get paired with that you are, like, man, if he is not playing good, he is just not fun to be around. He just mopes and pouts. No one wants to play with a kind of guy like that.

Q. Final thoughts on 11? I know we asked you earlier in the week, but now you played it a couple of times.

BILLY HORSCHEL: I like some of the changes. We played it in a west wind this week, and we played in a really strong west wind this week. I know that's not the common wind, the normal wind, but the problem is they don't have any room to move the tee box up.

We were playing at 520 all week, and it plays, I don't know, 10 yards downhill, 12 yards downhill, so let's just say it's 510. I hit driver, 3-iron -- I hit 3-iron, 3-iron, 3-iron, 4-iron. I hit 4-iron today. We got in, and the wind started blowing again. I'm not saying we need short irons into that green or whatever, but it will be interesting to see, obviously we played downwind, it's going to play shorter.

I just don't think, as there are maybe a few holes on this course as any player would tell you, they're just not the tee space forward if the wind is blowing strong into you to move the tee up to where it's just -- it's not an unfair hole, but it's just maybe on the edge type deal. Not that 11 was on the edge, but, shoot, that front pin on Friday, I mean, the wind was blowing so hard, I smoked the 3-iron from 210, and I hit it 10 feet, and -- 12 feet. It was an unbelievable golf shot. That's a scary shot to hit with a 3-iron into that front pin.

It's a little bit different than -- like today I hit a 4-iron in, but I had more space. I didn't have to -- I could carry it deeper in the green. I didn't have to worry about a front pin with a 4-iron.

Like I said, I think the change is good. I'm okay with it. I just think that if maybe they come back next year and they add 10 or 15 yards to the front of that tee box just in case we have a west wind, and it's blowing 15 to 25 like it did this week the first couple of days, where now you set it up 490, and then with the wind and everything it plays 530 instead of 520, it's playing 550 or something. I don't know.

Like I said, I think the change is good. As a lot of guys have said, maybe they just add a few yards to the front of that tee box so they give themselves a little bit more wiggle room to move the tees back and forth.