MASTERS TOURNAMENT

April 10, 2025

Brian Harman

Quick Quotes

Q. How would you assess the day?

BRIAN HARMAN: It's hard out there. It's tough. The greens are super firm in some spots. It's just so tricky on that back nine, it's hard to get good looks.

You've got to hit perfect shots to get good looks, and it's just Augusta, man. It's a bear. I always say, for me I think it's the hardest place we play all year. Just the way it's matured and gotten -- the par-5s for me on the back nine, I can't really go for. End up with these tricky little wedges. It's just hard, start to finish.

Q. We talked a lot about the trees. Have any of those losses changed the way you play a hole?

BRIAN HARMAN: I can't find any. I think this place, what makes this place great is that even though it looks generous off the tee, you have to be really precise to get a good number and to get a good shot into certain pins.

The further that the ball goes off line, usually the worse off you are. That's something that gets lost in our game sometimes.

Q. How was your energy level coming off of San Antonio?

BRIAN HARMAN: I feel great, man. I was a little groggy Monday morning, but other than that, I've been feeling pretty good this week.

Q. Was there anything you did in San Antonio that you feel like prepared you for this week?

BRIAN HARMAN: I feel like it's a pretty good preparation for this place. You get into some spots where you're like, a great shot with a wedge here gives me 40 feet, and you end up with some spots like that here if you get out of position.

I think that course is a great warmup for here.

Q. How was dealing with the wind coming down the stretch, the last four or five holes today?

BRIAN HARMAN: In this hill country, it just flips around a bunch. It started kind of east-southeast and then supposed to end up southwest. Especially on that back nine, I played three different wedge shots totally different directions all downwind. It can get in that little valley down there and do some funny stuff.

Q. You asked me to ask you after the tournament about the putter.

BRIAN HARMAN: It's a TaylorMade putter.

Q. What are you feeling with this putter?

BRIAN HARMAN: I took a hard look at my stats after last year because my iron game is the best it's ever been and I'm not having the finishes that I've come to enjoy when I feel like I'm playing well, and for me it was 10 to 20 feet. I was like 150th and 10 to 20 feet but I'm top 30 in strokes gained putting.

I was like, something is not adding up here. Been working hard and trying to find that comfort from 10 to 20 and make a few more.

Q. What was the answer in that putter you felt like you found?

BRIAN HARMAN: I think it's a lot hotter off the face, and my miss from 10 to 20 feet tended to be short, short and low, and I think this has just put a little more speed on the ball and helps hold the line a little bit better.

Q. When did you put it in?

BRIAN HARMAN: Wednesday of last week.

Q. I talked to J.T. earlier in the week and he said (indiscernible) what does that mean to you?

BRIAN HARMAN: Well, you know, this place baits me into trying to be in something that I'm not. Like I said, the fairways look wide but they're really not that wide. You feel like you have to elevate the ball into the greens.

Well, I don't. If I strike a ball like I'm supposed to, I can get up there close, and it's just being myself and trying to execute. If I execute, I can play this place.

Q. Do you have family here with you this week?

BRIAN HARMAN: Oh, yeah, I've got everybody.

Q. What's it like being a son of Georgia?

BRIAN HARMAN: I'm a Georgia boy through and through, other than last week when I was a Texas guy last week. But I love Georgia. I haven't made it far, grew up in Savannah, went to Georgia, live on St. Simons. I won't ever live anywhere else.