MASTERS TOURNAMENT

April 10, 2025

Patrick Reed

Quick Quotes

Q. How would you sum up your day?

PATRICK REED: Piss poor. Pretty simple. Hit it fine, missed it in the wrong spots, and putted like a blind man.

I expected the greens, just from previous years when they kind of have that type of look, I just kept leaving putts short. I thought they'd be faster. Just kept leaving them a little short. When I finally got the ball to the hole, didn't have the right read.

Hit the ball fine and putted horribly.

Q. Given all that, a 71 --

PATRICK REED: I don't care. It's not good enough.

Q. What was the potential today?

PATRICK REED: Low. I had a good chance there. Yeah, I hit the ball fine. I had a mud ball on 10 because I hung the drive just barely right and didn't turn it enough. I was on the side slope with mud on the left.

I was sitting there going, all right. I thought those might cancel. No, mud overtook it. I had the L4 immediately and tried to take some people out there on the right. It's just kind of one of those where you can't miss there. You can't miss right to a right pin. You can't short-side yourself and be above the hole. I did that twice today. I had a three-putt today, and I just missed everything.

Good thing is I was kind of hitting the ball how I wanted to. Yeah, not going to win golf tournaments putting the way I putted today. You've got to give putts a chance. Leaving them short, there's just no need for that.

Q. How much did you learn today that maybe you could take into the next two rounds?

PATRICK REED: I'd better learn to putt better. Plain and simple. I hit the ball fine. I gave myself plenty of looks.

Yeah, when I missed the fairway on 7, I think that was my only fairway I missed. I made sure I put it in the right spot because I couldn't get to -- really get to the flag. I missed in the right spot and was able to get up-and-down there.

Besides that, I hit it fine. I just couldn't make a putt at all. That's the biggest problem. You have to make putts out here. At least I feel like the ball was starting straight. Just couldn't get the ball to the hole.

Q. When you're having a day like that --

PATRICK REED: You want to break it. You want to break the putter. That's what you want to do.

Q. But you didn't?

PATRICK REED: No. I should have.

Q. You're clearly unhappy with your performance. But compared with the field, you're at T9 right now.

PATRICK REED: Yeah, it puts me in fine position. Realistically, I gave myself a good look on 1, missed. Good look on 2, left it short right in the heart. Shocker.

Hit it to 4 1/2 feet on 3, missed it. Three-putted 5. Made birdie on 8 and 9. Made bogey on 10. Missed a five-footer for birdie on 11. Had a 12 to 14-footer for birdie on 12 I missed. Had a 15-footer for birdie on maybe 15 feet on 14, stopped right in the jaws short. Missed there on 18 right in the heart short from 12 feet.

So I was hitting it fine. Ball striking wasn't a problem. The flatstick is on vacation and needs to kind of show up. It needs to get on a flight and meet me here.