MASTERS TOURNAMENT

April 11, 2025

Tom Kim

Quick Quotes

Q. Can you just sum up how you feel at the end of that?

TYRRELL HATTON: Naturally disappointed. I mean, I'm trying to think how many -- I have four dropped shots today and probably three out of the four shouldn't really have happened.

Yeah, I mean, 17 is just like ridiculous. Obviously tapping in there and hitting a little mark and goes straight left and lips out left and all of a sudden you look stupid. But I don't really know what to say about that. When you hit a decent putt from a foot, you expect it to go in.

Q. Good break on 14 out of the trees.

TYRRELL HATTON: Yeah, that's probably one of the best breaks I've ever had. Certainly around here. I feel like I've had enough bad breaks, I was certainly due a good one. That one was nice.

Then yeah, sadly wasn't able to hole the birdie putt. But I feel like that's part of my struggle around here, as well. I just don't hole putts from that 15 sort of foot range.

Yeah, I just struggle reading them, and that's been the consistent theme for the nine times that I've played it. I'm a good putter, and I just don't get these greens.

So it's frustrating to come off the course and feel like you kind of have shot the worst score that you could every time.

Q. When you went back to look at that mark at 17, what did you see?

TYRRELL HATTON: Well, I mean, it's late in the day and there was rain last night, and when the sun gets to a certain height, you can kind of see more of the blemishes.

Yeah, that green had a ton of footprints, and it's just one of those things that you're never really going to get around. Sometimes they bobble in for you, and obviously that time it bobbled a miss for me.

Q. On 16, that was like an impossible spot to hit that first putt.

TYRRELL HATTON: Yeah, it's frustrating. We had the right club, and yeah, it was -- obviously we waited on the tee for a while there.

Yeah, I mean, it was always an 8-iron, and there was a little bit of chat as to maybe changing, and that, in the end, kind of contributed to why I hit the shot that I did.

But yeah, it was such a hard two-putt. I feel like the first attempt was very close to being great. If I hit it probably three feet harder, it misses the slope and goes through the other side and then you're almost off the green.

So yeah, it was very easy to look stupid. Yeah, I mean, I wasn't so annoyed at the making 4 there, to be honest. I can take that on the chin. From where I was putting from for birdie, you can have a fair few attempts and you're very rarely going to two-putt that.

But yeah, 17 is the one that kind of hurts the most, really.

Q. But if somebody said at the start of the week you'd be three shots off the lead going into the weekend, you'd probably be okay with that, wouldn't you?

TYRRELL HATTON: Yeah. Normally when I'm walking up 18 on a Friday, I'm very stressed out because I'm like on the cut line or whatever.

In one sense it was nice to walk up there and know that I couldn't even mess that one up around here. But yeah, I mean, I would have taken that, I guess, before I teed off yesterday.

Q. Obviously frustrated but you managed to hold it together enough on a very difficult hole coming home. Do you think you might have done that five years ago?

TYRRELL HATTON: I don't feel like I've changed that much over the last five years. I feel like I probably would have handled it pretty much the same way as I did today.

But yeah, I mean, that's just me.

Q. Do you feel like you maybe need to tighten up a little bit the next 36 holes?

TYRRELL HATTON: I think it's just mainly putting. I've given myself a lot of opportunities these two days, and there's been times where it's been pretty tricky and for the most part distance-wise we've been pretty good.

Yeah, I mean, I haven't looked at the stats, but I imagine they're not very pretty reading in terms of where I am strokes gained from inside 20 feet.

Yeah, I don't really know what else I can do. I see the line and I feel like I'm hitting my start line but then there's putts that break more than I think they will or I feel like then I've chosen a good line and then it doesn't even get close to turning in, and it doesn't make sense to me.

Yeah, it's just hit and hope, I think.

Q. Ryder Cup year; are the majors that much more important to get yourself these points to get yourself sealed into that team in September?

TYRRELL HATTON: Yeah, the majors this year are the only opportunities that I have to earn points. One thing that I'm proud of for the last three Ryder Cups that I've been a part of is that I've qualified automatically, and I've made it a bit harder for myself now.

I would love to qualify without needing a pick. Yeah, hopefully I can play really well in the majors this year. I'd love to be on that team again in Bethpage.

Q. (Indiscernible).

TYRRELL HATTON: I haven't even looked. Yeah, that's a nice place to be, but I'd love to be in the top six come August.