00:00So what makes Augusta Nationals so difficult?
00:04Well, the conditions this week are firm and fast,
00:07which that's when it plays the most difficult.
00:10A few good scores were shot.
00:11Rory played a good round today.
00:13Patrick Reed, who I picked.
00:14I picked him and Rory and Scotty.
00:16I go way on the limb there, don't I?
00:20But it's just the green sights.
00:23Everyone thinks you can drive it anywhere.
00:25Well, you really can't.
00:26Now they've made it driving a little more important,
00:28but it's the second shots.
00:29If you put yourself in the wrong place,
00:31I could literally put you somewhere on a green 18 times
00:36and you cannot two-putt any of them.
00:38I mean, maybe if you chip one in after it putts off the green,
00:42stuff like that, but I could put you in a place
00:44where you will three-putt 18 straight times.
00:47Unless you make 20-footer for par by the other side.
00:49It's ridiculous.
00:50If you're in the wrong place, you're done.
00:52So for you, it was the greens that was the biggest challenge for you.
00:55It wasn't really so much the footing and anything else
00:58when you're in the fairways.
00:59It was more so where the sticks and where the pins were
01:02each and every single day.
01:04Yeah, it's like I grew up in western Pennsylvania.
01:07Augusta National is not hilly to me.
01:09Okay, so I'm used to that.
01:11But not everybody is.
01:13You know, I'm playing off side hill lies and stuff.
01:15It was, that's what we did.
01:1713 side, the ball's seven, eight inches above your toes.
01:21It's ridiculous.
01:22It's cool.
01:23But that's how I learned to play off those type of lies.
01:25It was the greens that were the toughest.
01:27Because if you did miss in the wrong place, I don't care how good you are.
01:31It's not going to happen.
01:32So, and then putting them, reading them, learning where they break.
01:36It's just a, that's why I hardly, no, only one guy's won it the first time.
01:41And that was fuzzy, but that doesn't mean it's going to happen.
01:43It's not going to happen again either, by the way.
01:45But, man, they're tough and they're so difficult.
01:49But it's just, it's the masters.
01:51Everybody watching it knows, knows what the player's looking at.
01:54You know what I mean?
01:54They've seen it a million times.
01:56It's, that's what, that's the coolest thing about it, I think.
01:59Major in the same place every time.
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