MASTERS TOURNAMENT

April 8, 2024

Christo Lamprecht

Quick Quotes

Q. I saw you one year ago at the NCAA Final, and now you're here. Take us a little bit through that process, I mean, from there to here.

CHRISTO LAMPRECHT: Obviously it's an ongoing process, college golf. I've been enjoying it. I'm growing a lot. It's been great to play a lot of better golf over the last year and a half and grow it a lot.

I think kind of for me as a young kid, playing out here, it's taking every lesson from all the way up here from last year Nationals to now. It's taking a lesson and learning as fast as I can and trying to be better every year.

Q. The thing that you enjoyed the most here? What surprised you the most?

CHRISTO LAMPRECHT: It's my first time coming to the Masters, I promised myself the first time I come here is when I play, not come and watch. So this is so cool. It's so fun. I have a bunch of friends from home that flew over. It's fun to have some family and friends around. It's pretty special.

Q. When you and I talked a few years ago, you played here before, the difference between Georgia Tech out here playing and this experience the way the course is playing?

CHRISTO LAMPRECHT: I think, if you're out here by yourself, if you're out here by yourself, and there's not a single person out here except two other groups maybe playing, you have this whole place to yourself and you can't hear a thing, all you can hear is birds. Now it's just all the noise, and it's awesome. You can see people everywhere. It's pretty cool. I'm here to take it all in.

Q. You said you have no expectations for the week with your mindset. Now that you're here, is the reality kind of coming to fruition?

CHRISTO LAMPRECHT: Yeah, I think the mindset hasn't changed. I don't think it will change. I'm really confident in my mindset to say I'm just going to go out here and enjoy. I've got no one betting on me hopefully.

For me, it's about just having fun. This is about the biggest learning curve to where say hopefully a couple years down the line I'm not World Amateur No. 1, I'm World No. 1, and I've got a chance to win out here.

The more I can learn now, the better that situation will be coming down the line. Hopefully it's this week. No, it's a learning curve, and I'm taking it as such.

Q. Augusta National is a place of tradition, a lot of traditions that come when you're one of the amateurs to play here. What have you seen here so far? Are you going to stay in the Crow's Nest. What's that going to be like?

CHRISTO LAMPRECHT: Yeah, we've got the amateur dinner tonight, which I'm looking forward to. It's really a special thing to be a part of. It's already tough enough to play the Masters as a professional and even harder to play it as an amateur. I really am privileged just to be here and taking it all in.

The Crow's Nest is going to be fun. Only night I'll be staying here, but I'm looking forward to it. Just sitting around with a bunch of amateurs and talking about our experiences and stuff, just being little kids in a toy store.

Q. Do they have a bed big enough for you?

CHRISTO LAMPRECHT: No. There's very few places in America that have a bed big enough for me, but I've gotten used to that. It's probably the best uncomfortable sleep I'll ever have in my life. Yeah, I'm just fortunate to be here.

Q. Back nine tomorrow, playing the par-3?

CHRISTO LAMPRECHT: Yeah, back nine tomorrow, same kind of time. I've seen a lot of guys over the last couple of years, especially amateurs, play this golf course three days in a row, you wear yourself down. Especially me being 6'8", I've got to watch my body.

So nine holes today was great. Nine holes tomorrow again. For me the emphasis is around the greens here. So I'm going to do a lot of chipping and putting the next couple of days. Yeah, that's kind of my process.

Q. Is there a moment today or tomorrow where you might look around and go, holy you know what, I'm here, just as a player in the Masters?

CHRISTO LAMPRECHT: I had nine holes today, and I probably did that about 27 times. Yeah, it's special. Just looking up and looking around, it really is. There's a reason they call it the best golf tournament in the world.

Q. Have you heard more go Dogs or go Yellow Jackets?

CHRISTO LAMPRECHT: I've heard a lot of Yellow Jackets and good stuff, but I've hear a lot of people trying to get attention out of me, saying go Dogs. I'm not going to give them any recognition. If they want to say Yellow Jackets, then all good.