MASTERS TOURNAMENT

April 10, 2025

Robert MacIntyre

Quick Quotes

Q. There was a sense of frustration those last few holes, but 3-over, it's not an easy golf course, 3-over isn't a disaster.

ROBERT MACINTYRE: No, it's not, but it's not good. I actually felt I've played nicely, but I was just hitting it too far away from the hole.

I came here the last two times I've played it and I think I've made a hell of a lot of birdies, and today I've just played completely the opposite and been defensive and made bogey from -- a couple of bogeys from being on the safe side of the hole but miles away from it, and just disappointed with the day.

Q. You played the first six holes perfectly and just come up a fraction short and then three-putt from three feet at 7. What does that do to you mentally?

ROBERT MACINTYRE: It kills you. Actually reminded me of the momentum swing that I had when I was leading in Denmark, when I think I was 2 or 3 ahead and then I make triple and my back is against the wall.

I was annoyed but I didn't let it keep going. But it's like a shock to the system. It brings all the energy out of you.

Just for me, it feels like a disappointing today, but there was a lot of good in there.

Q. Talk me through 13. You were not expecting to play your second shot at 13 for birdie at that time.

ROBERT MACINTYRE: No, to be honest, I was lucky with the tee shot. I tried to sneak it around the corner and I got just got underneath it. Just my cardinal sin, do not do it. Done that.

Got lucky. Nice 3-wood to lay up, and then played the safe shot and then three-putted. Just summed up the day. Even the last two there I thought I'd stuffed both of them, and I'm lucky if I can two-putt them.

Q. You also made important pars. You would have been disappointed to walk off with a bogey, but to hole that par putt was important and the two-putt at the last for momentum.

ROBERT MACINTYRE: Yeah, it's all right. 3-over par is not that rough. I've had bad scores to start before. Just gets me over a touch where I want to be, but to be honest, it's just a disappointing day.

After the start, I got through -- I actually done the hard part in them first seven holes. My job from 4 to 7 was try and limit the bogeys, and I actually done the hard part. The tee shot on 7 was the last piece of the jigsaw, and I then pulled the wedge or the 9-iron into an okay spot. Still, you can play from there. Lovely wedge. It's just the way this golf course is.

You think, oh, I can be a bit aggressive with this putt, and I try and do that and now it misses, and now you're left with a four- or five-footer coming back. Then you try and dribble that one in and it moves as much as you thought the first one was going to move.

And yeah, just one of them days. It wasn't great and it wasn't too bad.

Q. As much as you're disappointed at 3-over, poor Nick had one of those days that you feel for people when this place does that to you.

ROBERT MACINTYRE: It's difficult. I've played with him a few times this year, and what a great player, what a great guy. To be honest, as much as his golf was -- he was struggling out there today, his attitude was solid. He didn't get in the way. He didn't lay off anything that was going to affect his two other playing partners because we've got a job to do.

I feel for him today, but he'll come back.

Q. They were talking a bit at the women's tournaments how the second shot at 15, it's difficult to hold that green. All three of you went through the back there. Is it going to be a tough hole --

ROBERT MACINTYRE: It's almost impossible with that wind. I think it was designed for a 4-, 5-, 6-iron into that green. Now you're shelling 3-woods at it. That pin is probably the worst pin because I remember watching it two years ago, I remember I knocked a -- I just knocked it over the green and chipped it to two feet, made birdie there, and I then sat and watched in the afternoon. I remember Bernd Wiesberger putting it in the water, people in the back chipping it over into the water.

It's carnage now that it's a 3-wood. You're probably going to be less likely to see the great golf shots that you used to see.