MASTERS TOURNAMENT

April 13, 2025

Scottie Scheffler

Quick Quotes

Q. What did you find after those first few holes? What got you going?

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: What did I find? I don't know. I kind of just kept battling out there. I felt like I did all I could today. I just didn't have my best stuff this week. The guys on top of the leaderboard, Rory and Rosey, played some great golf, and we'll see what happens the last few holes.

Overall I wouldn't say I had my best stuff, but I fought really hard all week. I think this was -- as far as my mental game goes, I think this was the best I was mentally all year. I think my game just wasn't there.

Q. What does it say to you that you didn't have your best stuff but you're still top 5?

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: Well, I think it was easily a week in which I could have gotten frustrated with either how I was playing or how I was swinging or stuff going on on the course, not hitting it where I was looking.

I was just proud of the way we hung in there and put up a good fight. A few different things happen today and I maybe have a chance in the tournaments. I wasn't far off.

Overall it was a good week for me mentally and something to build off of.

Q. When you're heading to 16, you were only down two. I don't know if you knew that. But did you know that at that point, that maybe you had an outside shot if you could close strong?

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: Well, yeah, I felt like I had to birdie the last three holes. Not making birdie on 15 definitely hurt.

But overall the bogey on 12 kind of set me back a little bit.

But I bounced back quick with birdies on 13 and 14. I felt like I bounced back really well today.

I had a bogey on 4; came back with a great birdie on 5, and I fought really hard today. Just wasn't able to get it done.

Q. Do you feel like there's a lot of great progress with the mental game from earlier this year, that you showed that you can not have your best stuff and not get frustrated?

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: Yeah, I think I hung really tough this week. I think today was another good example of where I wasn't giving myself as many opportunities as I'm used to, but holed some really key putts and really hung in there.

You look at the par save I had on 2, I'm not going to make par on that hole if I'm getting overly frustrated with my poor swing off the tee. Same thing kind of goes for I made a huge par putt there on 11, too. Hit a decent iron shot but barely off and all of a sudden in a really hard spot to get up-and-down.

The margins on this golf course are really small, and so I've got to be on top of my game if I'm going to be hitting it on the right shelf mand this week I was just a touch off.

Q. Was there anything different today on the back nine on Sunday? A lot of roars but a lot of groans and a lot of shock out there.

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: Definitely I forgot kind of what it's like when they post stuff on the leaderboard. I think the two Sundays I've had here where I was able to win, I felt like I was kind of ignoring what was going on on the leaderboard.

Like they were maybe looking at the board to see if I'd make a mistake or something like that, so going down the stretch today was definitely -- I forgot what it's like when they post the numbers, and like you said, it was a bit of a roller coaster out there at times.