MASTERS TOURNAMENT

April 13, 2024

Cameron Davis

Quick Quotes

Q. Tough out there today still a little bit? Bit of a slip-up on 10, 11, and was it 13? Obviously just you go in tomorrow still with a fighting chance.

CAMERON DAVIS: Yeah. Scottie just birdied 18. We're a little farther back than we were a few minutes ago. I hung in there quite well. Quite a few risky shots not panning out for me.

It was playing tough, but I feel pretty proud walking away with 1-over after a few, it felt like, disasters while I was out there.

Q. How do you mentally turn that around? 10 and 11 -- 10 was tough. You go through 10 and 11. What do you do in your head once you get on the 12th tee and go I've got to fix this. How do I fix it?

CAMERON DAVIS: I thought the tee shot on 12 felt much easier than the shot on 10 and 11. Just a few poorly executed shots turned it into a little bit of a mess for a little while there. Actually the wind was in a place where I could read it. I felt like I had a good number on 12 and actually kind of settled things down on my own.

Got a stock shot, just execute and get back to the plan. I deviated from that plan a couple times on 13 and 15. It didn't work out.

Honestly I felt like I made a good up-and-down for double on 10 and stopped it from being an absolute disaster.

Q. That's the thing with the Masters. All it can take is one hole.

CAMERON DAVIS: I was trying to make it happen on a couple of the par-5s and it didn't. One more day to go.

Q. What do you do tonight? What's your plan for tonight? How do you prepare for what comes tomorrow on Masters Sunday here at Augusta?

CAMERON DAVIS: Have some food, get to bed, give myself eight hours of sleep. That's it. I've got -- I guess I've got a relatively late tee time again tomorrow. It's just relax, hang out. I've got family and friends here.

It will be good. I'm still in pretty good spirits despite not having my best stuff today. It will be fine. I'm looking forward to getting back out here as trying again as soon as I can.

Q. You've got a big army of support. You said yesterday you got your mom, your aunties, a couple of siblings floating around as well.

CAMERON DAVIS: I've got a lot of family here this week. It's great. A few of them have never been here before. It's awesome to see it through their eyes as well. This is only my second time. It's so much fun watching them take it all in and appreciate how awesome it is out here.

Q. Does this golf course remind you of anything from back home? Is there anything that compares in any way?

CAMERON DAVIS: The only comparisons I can make is sandbelt golf being a MacKenzie design -- well, got Royal Melbourne, and a lot of them are very similar to that with the firm and fast and bunkering.

Growing up in Sydney, wind and hills. I guess you can kind of mesh them together and get something that kind of resembles this place and not being anywhere near as perfect.

I think elements of those can prepare you well. Because of that, I think Australians have -- we haven't gotten as many over the line as we would have liked, but always been up in contention, which is great?

Q. How firm were those greens today. Pin positions harder, but those greens seemed a lot firmer. They could be firmer tomorrow.

CAMERON DAVIS: I don't know if the sand yesterday dried them out a little bit extra. For example, 17 was only blowing a tiny bit down wind. I hit a full lob wedge which I would normally rip off the back of the green and still release 15 feet forward.

For me, that was the teller that it's really firm out here. It's difficult, the pins are in really tough places where even a great shot 15, 20 feet is awesome.

There's no real way to kind of replicate these sort of conditions anywhere else, which is part why it's so fun playing here.

Q. Kind of a random question. What's the difference when you are going through a round, it's obviously a manual scoreboards, but just kind of very limited noise. What's that experience like? How is it different than normal professional life?

CAMERON DAVIS: I would say I haven't played in front of crowds like this very often. The fact that everyone is paying attention. It's so quiet when you're hitting. There's usually a hum. There's a lot of stuff going on in the background in a lot of the tournaments we play. Here it's just dead silent when you play, and you can tell everyone's watching.

The appreciation is a little more genuine, and a few more people -- I think there's a lot more eyes on that golf ball than on the screen. It just makes for a really cool, unique atmosphere, which you don't get anywhere else. As a player, it's awesome. It's a lot of fun.

Q. Does it heighten the anxiety in a big moment, or does it narrow the focus? What's the effect?

CAMERON DAVIS: For me, I don't think it really changes too much for me anymore. You just know, if you hit a good shot, it's going to get appreciated. You try and do it for yourself, but you also know that hearing a cheer when your ball's laying on the green when you can't see the surface, it's a lot of fun seeing people stand up and all looking.

Yeah, I'm going to try and bring as many good moments like that into my round tomorrow. Yeah, it's just -- the overall experience here is just so much fun.

Q. And it will be an early start tomorrow for a few million Australians waking up early to watch you take in Masters Sunday. Any message you want to send back home?

CAMERON DAVIS: I'm trying my hardest. It's hard out there, but I'm giving it everything I've got. I feel like today I wasn't laying up, and I was giving it a good crack. Tomorrow hopefully we'll make the right decisions in the moments and come away with a round that's as good as we can make it.

I'm trying, but it would be awesome to have a great day tomorrow.