Learning Augusta with 1st-Time Masters Player Akshay Bhatia

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00:00What about the golf course did you like about Augusta National?

00:09Do you feel like that's a place one day that you can win at after playing at your first

00:13Masters?

00:14Yeah, I think I mean Augusta's Augusta.

00:18It's got just there's just never give up on that golf course.

00:24Even the par fives now, there's still, you know, not many easy shots.

00:29You can leave yourself in some really tough spots and I think the golf course, you know,

00:35the more experience you have and the more experience your caddie is and understanding

00:39so many things about it, it just plays a big part of it.

00:44I think what's really impressive was when Ludwig obviously finishing second in his first

00:48Masters or Jordan being in contention in his first Masters, even you being in contention

00:54is it's just unbelievable because, you know, like off course changes so fast and the wind

01:00was the I mean, I'm a really good ball striker.

01:03I play really good in the wind.

01:04I mean, Valera blew 2030, but it's so consistent and there is just literally a guessing game

01:11and I mean, for the cut to be six or seven over, it just shows like, you know, we're

01:18the best players in the world yet.

01:20Six overs a cut and yeah, it's just crazy.

01:24I mean, the greens got so firm so fast and, you know, there's just certain things about

01:31it that you're like, how is this even possible?

01:33Like three green, you know, the whole green pitches hard right to left and downhill and

01:39they had that back left pin and that putt is downhill left to right, but your chipping

01:45is downhill, right?

01:47Like it's just crazy how the green slopes like that and I think just understanding the

01:53more and more you play, like we're to truly miss it and actually hit shots and 12 I could

01:59never figure out.

02:00You know, I thought you watch on TV or like, dude, this is a freaking it's a nine iron.

02:05It's a pitching wedge and then all of a sudden it's like I didn't hit the green ones though.