MASTERS TOURNAMENT

April 12, 2026

Nick Taylor

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Q. Nick, how would you sum up the week here at Augusta?

NICK TAYLOR: I'll take a lot of positives from the week. Disappointing day, but it was tricky out there. I didn't do myself much favors. But it's a razor's edge out there. You talk about the guys the first few days and I probably had four or five shots where I was on the right side of that edge.

Honestly, I just hit kind of three terrible shots on the par-5 when I was in position in the fairway, and then a really loose iron shot on 9 and a poor tee shot on 10. So four or five shots. Obviously if I pull them off it's a different story, but even if they're average it easily cost me three or four shots.

Just couldn't get momentum after I did those, and it was just kind of a very blah day that was just tough to score.

Q. You said you'll take some positives away. You just rolled off a few negatives --

NICK TAYLOR: Oh, there was really only negatives today, but as the week there will be some positives. Yeah, I saw some positive signs tee to green. Great day putting yesterday.

Again, this has been a lot of the year where there's a lot of good most weeks, leave disappointed, but knowing that my game is somewhat there. Just got to clean it up a little bit more.

Q. Did you learn anything about yourself and your game the first three days perhaps that you maybe didn't know coming in and what do you take away from some of the things you were able to mull off this week?

NICK TAYLOR: I wouldn't say so. I played pretty solid the first few days and I was in 20th. It wasn't anything -- I wouldn't say outstanding where I was in a chance to win today. But obviously a great round today would have felt a lot better and finished the tournament off to a decent result.

But I can take some positives from that. Felt comfortable. So yeah, it'll take time to look at that, but just a poor day that kind of makes the week not feel great.

But I know there was three decent days.

Q. To play 18 as you did on the weekend and hit four of your best golf shots on that hole, how does that feel?

NICK TAYLOR: Yeah, it was nice to not be blank today of birdies. Like I said, the back nine, honestly, after the 10th tee shot was a terrible one. But I hit it good enough the last eight holes, aside from the second shot on 15 that got away from me, to be under par on those last eight holes. For how well I scored yesterday, kind of did the opposite today.

The front nine was one where there was really three shots way away from me to give myself scoring opportunities, and a couple I ended up with bogeys. This place can do it to you. You think you're way off. I know I'm not that far off, but it sucked doing it today.

Q. Are you the kind of guy that spends a lot of time analyzing or do you immediately know what's wrong?

NICK TAYLOR: No, it's never a great thing to overanalyze during a tournament round. I think some of the reactions -- I hit it way left on the second shot on 2, which that isn't the miss you want.

Obviously on 8 I probably overreacted and blasted it right, and 10 was probably something similar.

Sometimes you hit a really poor shot and can rattle you a little bit, and that might've happened on a few of those shots. Yeah, on top of that just couldn't buy a putt either. It was a cascade of bad stuff.

Q. You don't look at making the cut as a success story, but is it a continual building block for you at majors to take something from this and then the next step try to get in contention and contend on the weekend, that sort of thing?

NICK TAYLOR: Yeah, I'll look at it that way. I don't see it currently, but yeah, obviously it's better to play four days, better to be in a good spot today and put myself there and play poorly. You'll learn from that.

I'll take some time, learn from it, and try to build for the next major. But certainly it's better than missing the cut and banging my head against the wall.

It's always hard when you finish poorly on a Sunday to kind of take the positives for the week, but I'll take a day or two and keep working on what I'm doing. There was obviously a lot of great golf this week; today just wasn't it.

Q. Removing today's round and the disappointment of it, you're now kind of a regular at the Masters, three years in a row, four in all. Is there a satisfaction that's just, yeah, I'm coming here each spring and getting more familiar with the golf course? Can you take satisfaction from that?

NICK TAYLOR: Yeah, and I think the opposite, what drives me is there's no guarantee that I'll be back. So when I look at it that way, it gets me up to work hard and practice and come back. It's one of those where this week is so special, you try to embrace it because there's no guarantee that it will be back. I hope to be back for decades, but you just never know.

Yeah, I enjoyed the week. It was great to have family. It's nice that I've done three in a row, and I think positively when I will be back, that's definitely experience I can build on.