MASTERS TOURNAMENT

April 11, 2025

Charl Schwartzel

Quick Quotes

Q. How did it go out there?

CHARL SCHWARTZEL: I don't know. Lots of birdies, lots of bogeys. The rain last night helped a little bit, definitely softened the greens out.

But yeah, I didn't play nearly as good today as yesterday. Today was a bit scrappy, a few bad iron shots, so I made stupid bogeys.

But yeah, fought it out at the end just to try and keep myself on the weekend.

Q. How irritating is it to end on a bogey?

CHARL SCHWARTZEL: Second day in the row from the middle of the fairway. But I had mud on the ball, so it came out left. But I should have given myself a better opportunity with the chip shot.

The course is never easy. It's always on edge. It's one foot this one, one foot that way makes a big difference, which is what happened to me 14 and 15. One foot further on 14, goes down probably 10-footer for birdie.

Great shot on 15, I thought it was middle of the green, but you're a foot short of the green and it was in the water. It's not easy.

Q. I assumed you had a much better score in you today with the amount of birdies that you made.

CHARL SCHWARTZEL: I did, I did. Like I said, small margins. 14 and 15 was the turnaround for me. Even on 12, I thought I hit it middle of the green, got the wind wrong, pitches long. A lot of little mistakes that wasn't necessarily that bad but ended up in bogeys.

Q. What do you do now? Do you kind of just sit back to see if you're going to make the cut? You're on the cut line at the moment.

CHARL SCHWARTZEL: Yeah, I'd be surprised if -- if the conditions stay like this, you'd make the cut. But I'll go and hit a few balls. There was a few loose shots. It wasn't as good as yesterday. A couple balls and then have the afternoon off.

Q. How do you go into the last two rounds?

CHARL SCHWARTZEL: Going to need a good weekend. Around this course, we've seen things happen, weather changes. The way it stands now you'll be out quite early. If you can shoot a low score, 5- or 6-under, you'll give yourself a chance on the weekend, that's for sure.

Q. What would be an example of a stupid bogey that you said --

CHARL SCHWARTZEL: You know, like on 18, middle of the fairway -- I know it's mud. I see it but I don't trust it. I don't trust that it's going to throw it left, so I still aim for the wind.

But mud is much stronger than any wind. There's just things that I know that I can see but I don't calculate and react to it.

Q. What would have been your best shot today?

CHARL SCHWARTZEL: I don't know. If I've got to think that hard, I don't know if there was that many. I hit a great shot into 10. Whenever you can birdie 10, that's a good shot.

Actually the second shot on 11. The second shot on 11. That was 212 with that cross wind, hanging lie; hit a 4-iron right behind the hole. That was a good shot.

Q. When you reach 15, I know you're in a heated competition, but do you ever take a moment to think about what you accomplished in 2011, that stretch?

CHARL SCHWARTZEL: I do in the practice rounds. I mean, it was an amazing afternoon, that.