MASTERS TOURNAMENT

April 8, 2026

Jordan Spieth

Quick Quotes

Q. Did you get any pointers on how to box out someone in the paint?

JORDAN SPIETH: Yeah. He's a big dude.

Q. Do you know much about him, like his history, like played college basketball or played college golf?

JORDAN SPIETH: No. But it was great. He let me join on 3, which was cool. And had a good talk. I'm excited for him this afternoon. He's got his six-year-old and two-year-old coming out to take advantage of the par-3. And his dad is on the bag. His brother has got Shinnecock. They're trying to figure out who gets what yeah, and it's probably the best this way.

Yeah, it was a good time. It's a nice morning. Warmed up. But obviously not quite exactly how we'll see it the next few days. But nice to see it almost harder today and have a good time doing it.

Q. Is this the first time you haven't done media until Wednesday morning at Masters week?

JORDAN SPIETH: Probably. I didn't even get asked, I don't think.

Q. I know.

JORDAN SPIETH: Right. Yeah. No. Probably, and it's nice. I had a lot going on from Sunday night until now anyways, so to be able to try to catch up on rest while still getting enough done out here, it's felt like a lot of golf this week which has been good.

Q. How was the dinner last night?

JORDAN SPIETH: Great. I mean, the food was incredible. It's one of the best, like, dinners that we've had on the meal. His choices were fantastic. And there was some great stories told.

Obviously he completed the Slam and won the Masters, which had been something that had been held over his head by others and probably himself for a long time, and you obviously saw what it meant to him last year. And then gets to come back and enjoy the perks of what that means when you come back as the defending champion.

Q. What was the best food item?

JORDAN SPIETH: I mean, the steak was awesome. The Wagyu filet, I mean, it was very good.

Q. How is your game coming into the tournament?

JORDAN SPIETH: Great. Yeah. Feel good. As good as it's been in a long time coming into this week. And I like this place. I've been able to play this place when it's been good coming in. I've been able to play it well, and when it hasn't been good coming in, I've been able to play it well. So play to the right spots, wait for the chances.

Greens are going to be firm. It's going to be probably a more challenging green-in-regulation year. So it's going to be important to be coming out of the fairway just because it's going to be hard to get it to stay on some of the greens if you're not. And then it's going to probably get brown and crusty. Just with the weather coming, it's going to be so nice that I think they're going to let it go a little bit.

Q. It's interesting, you talk about -- I feel like everyone always says Augusta is a second shot golf course. But you're always playing maybe less than your usual percentage, like GIR or strokes approach.

JORDAN SPIETH: Is that right? I don't know.

Q. Well, no. Like anyone. You're not going to hit as many greens. You're not going to hit it as close as you would normally.

JORDAN SPIETH: I would assume that's correct on proximity. I wouldn't guess that to be correct on greens in reg.

Q. Because they're bigger?

JORDAN SPIETH: Yeah. I don't even know, to be honest.

Q. Do you feel like it might be just as much of an around-the-green golf course?

JORDAN SPIETH: If you're missing greens, it is. If you're not, then it's not. So it's more of a touch putting, limit your long par chances, try to be uphill for par.

It's more where you're leaving it on first putts. Obviously if you're hitting it to the middle of the greens in two, then that's a lot easier to control.

There's nothing crazy to it. It's just the greens are bigger and sloppier, so it becomes more challenging in the wrong spots. But you can feed it into pins as well. But in general it's very different from last week and next week, but it's not totally different from Kapalua in the sense of -- it's not like this is the one course we play that's totally completely different from everywhere else. They all have different ways to play them, and here you certainly need to think about where you're leaving it for par more than other places.

Q. Do you watch like live from on a week like this?

JORDAN SPIETH: Yeah, Michael does a lot of that and gets some of the data and stuff like that.

Q. Brandon was talking about a lot of like hook lies here.

JORDAN SPIETH: Yeah. I don't even know if you have more hook than ball under your feet. I guess probably. But you have quite a bit below your feet, too. And the ones on the flat lie are very important.

Those par-3 shots are very important here. You try to find the green in regulation, and sometimes 16 and 6 both you have almost two par-3s in one. So you're trying to take advantage when they have the right pins on those greens and take your medicine, give yourself, again, if you don't like your number and you're not going to feel good about hitting the spot, then you make sure you're not missing in the wrong spots and you got less than five feet for par, and you just have to make a lot of those putts. You have to make a lot of putts that are tougher from inside 10 than normal.

And those are the ones that keep the momentum going because there are plenty of birdie chances.

Thanks, guys. I got the par-3. They told me three questions.