MASTERS TOURNAMENT

April 9, 2026

Adam Scott

Quick Quotes

Q. Scotty, would be easy to remind yourself that you're still only five back.

ADAM SCOTT: Yeah. Yeah, I mean, it's not easy out there. He have though the wind is not blowing hard it was moving around. I felt like on several shots today, every time I was committing to a shot the wind felt like it moved around, so made it very hard to start again and recommit.

It's tricky because on some of the shots it's like if you make the wrong choice it starts -- you're figuring out how to not have a disaster happen. That's how this course is.

It's not right on the edge, but it's playing nice and firm where you can get yourself in a lot of trouble if you lose control somewhere.

So I feel all right with today, if it was my off round. I would like to get a bit better rhythm going out on the golf course and in my swing for the next couple days and I'll be right there.

Q. Is it funny to be a little bit frustrated but also know you're still very much in it?

ADAM SCOTT: Yeah, yeah, that's kind of what majors are all about. I wish I would have finished under par today. I don't know why that one shot better feels like such a better accomplishment than even but it does, the red number.

But I'm right there. I didn't shoot myself out of it. That's what majors are kind of all about sometimes. Then you look to take advantage of your good stuff the next few days.

Q. You seem incredibly patient this year particularly. Why is that?

ADAM SCOTT: I don't know. Maybe because I'm older. I don't know if it's a good thing. I can't wait forever. I need to kind of light it up at some point. Feels like every week someone is lighting it up. Might be a different kind of lighting it up here.

There is good scores out there. You can do it if you put the ball in the right place and make a couple putts. Few more opportunities over the next few days and I feel like maybe the patience will pay off.

Q. Technically what do you need to do to get yourself right back up the leaderboard?

ADAM SCOTT: You know, I would say it's just a bit of the trust. You know, just hasn't felt quite as easy as maybe the tournaments earlier in the year. Since The PLAYERS it's just been a little scratchy, searching for it.

So, you know, I need to just let go and get out of my own way I think. It's all there.

Q. Just was on the range. For six players, six caddies, six coaches. In your long career, when did that start happening, that on a Thursday afternoon in the major you would see the coach on the driving range?

ADAM SCOTT: That's a good question. I mean, it probably became a real thing 15 years ago for sure. Yeah. I mean, there aren't 85 coaches here this week, but, you know, I think in my career and I think of Pete Cowen. He's been at every event I've ever played, you know. He's got a bunch of guys.

But for the last 15 years, 10 for sure, it's a lot of coaching. And I'm not just saying golf coaching. There is chipping -- well, that's golf coaching. Swing coaching, chipping coach, putting coaching, psychologists. There is a lot of coaches.

Q. When you won here were you with Butch still?

ADAM SCOTT: I was not. I worked with Brad.

Q. And for this tournament specifically what (indiscernible) now that the tournament has begun or...

ADAM SCOTT: No, I had the coach here but the ideal world drawing it up is you've got everything organized before you get here.

I felt a lot of the time when I had a coach here they were just watching and not saying too much. Ideally, you know.

Even off a day like today, sometimes you just need someone -- and it can be the caddie or someone -- to be able to say, yeah, I didn't feel good today. I don't think it's bad. What do you think? Nothing wrong with it. Go hit 20 balls and come back tomorrow.

Looks like everyone is going for this perfection a lot more.

Q. What do you think it says about the evolving nature the game that when Big Jack was in his prime Jack Grout never came out. Now you wouldn't see some guys without the swing coach right there. What does that say about the evolution of the player and the game?

ADAM SCOTT: It's changed. It's changed. I think I'll speak for myself. I think there have been phases in my career, firstly, where the coach weren't around a lot. I think that was good. I was a young kid. If I was on TOUR at 21 I didn't know what bad golf was really.

I just go out and play. And then later it was more about just really taking it to the next level and there was a lot of time spent, but maybe not a lot of rebuilding of the swing. It was more just eyes on it. You know, that was how it worked well for me.

Now I have a lot less. I speak to Trevor often about my -- how I feel and my swing, but I don't have him watching all the time. Yeah, so it's phases. I think guys, we're a lot more professional than we once were. That's how I would describing it.

Q. See it in the caddieing, too.

ADAM SCOTT: Caddieing, everything. We're trying to tick every box imaginable.

Q. But Squirrel could have played in any generation.

ADAM SCOTT: That's right. Okay, no worries, right.