MASTERS TOURNAMENT

April 6, 2026

Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen

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Q. So first impressions? First time here, so tell us.

RASMUS NEERGAARD-PETERSEN: Absolutely brilliant. It's been a dream of mine since I was very little. I think -- I'm not sure if it was the first event I watched on TV but it's the first event I remember watching thinking that someday I would really like to play in that event.

Yeah, dream come true for me this week. Got play the whole 18 yesterday and was love at first sight. Absolutely super, super excited and happy to be here and looking forward for a great week.

Q. Can you talk a little bit about the preparations? Do you do things that are specific for Augusta?

RASMUS NEERGAARD-PETERSEN: Well, so spent the last week in Oklahoma where I went to school, where I went to college. You know, had a great team of staff out there so they were able to speed up the greens for me and had me prepping on slopey greens.

So spent a lot of time doing that, and then, I mean, obviously being here as a rookie there is so many small intricacies to the course. I have three, four days to learn what other players have been playing here ten or 20 times know.

So obviously a busy couple days for me trying to learn the golf course, but it's another exciting thing about coming to new places, especially a place like that.

Q. Looks like traditionally anybody coming from Oklahoma is wishing for more wind here, no?

RASMUS NEERGAARD-PETERSEN: Absolutely. Well, Denmark, too. It's pretty windy in Denmark. Funny enough there was a lot of guys when I first got to college that asked me if I'd got used to the Oklahoma wind yet and I said, well, it's like that all the time at home, so yeah.

The more wind the better.

Q. How do you navigate the wind here? It's not that this easy?

RASMUS NEERGAARD-PETERSEN: It's tricky. I always want to have a general idea where the wind should be above the pines. There are so many holes with the super tall pines the wind really swirls. It's about figuring out -- if you can't quite decide if it's helping or might not be helping then figuring out okay what wind should I play for and so in case you get the wind wrong you end up in it an okay spot rather than playing for a certain wind and then the wind might be different and you end up in is spot you can't be.

Small things like that.

Q. Obviously good game got you here. What part of your game is going to be especially good at Augusta?

RASMUS NEERGAARD-PETERSEN: Generally speaking I've been really solid with my iron game, and that's certainly something that's really important out here. The greens are obviously one of the things that's most talked about how fast and slopey they are. Very underrated things. Is how important it is to put the ball in the right sections on the greens.

They're all difficult to putt on. If you keep hitting into the wrong section it becomes infinitely harder. So that's going to be the main focus for me.

Q. Looks like we have a record number of Scandinavian players here this week. What's going on with golf in Denmark, Sweden -- but mostly Denmark?

RASMUS NEERGAARD-PETERSEN: Yeah, well, it's super cool. I think it's down to all the work the Danish Junior Golf Academy and the National Team have done over the past 10, 15 years. Yeah, it's just one of those things that's super exciting to see a record amount of not only Danes, but people from Scandinavia in general.

Obviously it's funny, I have my coach here this week who I have worked with for 15 years and kind of one of the visions back in the day when they started up the Danish Golf Academy was get players on TOUR and get players to play majors.

I told him this morning because this is his first time out here as well that it's pretty fun to look back at what was once a vision and is now a reality.

Q. Looks like there is a correlation with the amount of Scandanavian players in U.S. colleges, no?

RASMUS NEERGAARD-PETERSEN: Yeah, certainly feel like over the last five to ten years or so the number of Scandinavian players going to college has become bigger. For me, I think it just helps you become more ready. You see guys like Ludvig obviously who I played a lot with in college come out and turn professional and hit the ground running.

That's a lot more common now than it used to be and that's all credit to the college system and how high the level is in college golf at the moment.