MASTERS TOURNAMENT

April 6, 2001

Angel Cabrera

ANGEL CABRERA: It was a difficult day. It was hard work, but the objective, finally, was not to lose the day and let ground get away from me. I finished well, I finished with a birdie at the last hole. I feel satisfied with the day. I finished under par.

ANGEL CABRERA: I made a poor second shot at the fourth, in the bunker, 208 feet from the hole and didn't make it. That was the first --

ANGEL CABRERA: 6-iron. Drive, wedge and holed a putt at 33 feet.

ANGEL CABRERA: Approximately 330 yards, hole five. Another birdie at 6. Almost holed-in-one, with an 8-iron. 7, 2-iron, sand wedge, and about four feet from the hole. Birdie on 8. Drive driver, 3-wood, chip from 25 yards, to five feet from the hole and I holed that. That's four birdies in a row, and then a bogey on 9. I hit a good drive, wedged it past the hole. It was about 30 feet past the hole and I 3-putted it.

ANGEL CABRERA: Exactly. Hit 9-iron off the tee, to the front bunker, hit it long, left myself something like 20 feet and didn't make it. I was on the fringe of the green. Another bogey on 13. 13, problems. I lost a ball, hit a drive which drew too much. Yesterday I hit 3-wood. Today I hit drive. Couldn't find the ball, goes back to the tee, hits driver, 6-iron, two putts. 18, on the 18th, I hit my best drive of the day, leaving 90 yards to the green, and then a lob-wedge to five feet and holed it.

ANGEL CABRERA: Yeah, the 16th I believe is probably the most difficult hole on the golf course. It is particularly dangerous and you cannot take any chances with it. I feel I hit a great shot there and was really happy to get out with 3, a putt from two meters, but still happy to make 3.

ANGEL CABRERA: To make 4. He went back with just the idea to make 4. Make four with the second ball and you get out.

ANGEL CABRERA: No, I didn't think -- it wasn't as far inside the line of the trees as the first one and I wasn't really concerned that it was going anywhere other than where it finished.

ANGEL CABRERA: I started off at ten years of age as a caddy. My golf throughout my amateur career was played as a caddy. I never won the Argentine National Caddies Championship which is an important event because many of the professionals have come from that event, but I won many caddy tournaments on my own and I felt I was good enough at age 20 to turn profession.

ANGEL CABRERA: In Cordoba, which is approximately 300 miles north of Buenos Aires.

ANGEL CABRERA: Yeah, they are coming tomorrow probably. I've been in contact with them and they said they would love to come. I said would I see if I can arrange it, so yes.

ANGEL CABRERA: Yes. That's correct.

ANGEL CABRERA: Mostly all of my family are big, solid men. So I just take after my family. I haven't done anything special to build the physique.

ANGEL CABRERA: Six.

ANGEL CABRERA: There's two things. One; that last year I came in not playing particularly well. In fact, I was hitting the ball badly. This. Year, I come in playing well .

ANGEL CABRERA: I come in feeling better, playing better and plus I now know the golf course, and it makes it easier to come in here and play when you know what you are going to play and are playing well.

ANGEL CABRERA: Never.

ANGEL CABRERA: Very little, but up until I was 15 years old, I did play futbol, like kids play. You go out in the backyard and you play. I didn't play for a team. I didn't take soccer seriously.

ANGEL CABRERA: Everybody in Argentina knows the story of El Maestro, which is what Roberto was known as, and I've had the fortune to know him well, to be in contact with him on many occasions and also to receive help and advice on occasions.

ANGEL CABRERA: If you ask me tomorrow, I'll let you know.

ANGEL CABRERA: Yes, that helped, because just to be near Tiger and to play with Tiger, against Tiger, and to be competitive with Tiger, is something very important. You learn from it. I was under extra pressure because I was playing in Argentina, playing for Argentina against Tiger. So so have done well, yes, was a great confidence booster.

ANGEL CABRERA: Yes, the Big Cat is a very important person, influence in my life, not only economically, did he help me, but moralemente, which is like spiritually in golf. He's helped me in every way possible and why I'm sitting here is I'm in considerable debt to Eduardo Romero for being here.

ANGEL CABRERA: My father was nicknamed Duck and they just passed it onto his son. So I suppose I'm Duck II.

ANGEL CABRERA: Never.