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Masters quotes of the day – Friday

Saturday, 10 April 2010
Paul O'Hagan
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Ian Poulter
"I think my golf game certainly is a lot better now than what it was when I first played. You know, I think I've learnt the golf course over the last six years, and to a degree, where I feel very comfortable out there hitting certain shots; there's a lot of shots that I didn't feel I was very comfortable pulling off six years ago, but certainly I am now."

Lee Westwood
Q. I noticed that you are wearing the same color shirt you wore yesterday. I'm not suggesting it's the same shirt, but was there a reason for the blue?
LEE WESTWOOD: It was cold this morning. I only had a blue sweater and this is the only shirt that went with it. But thanks for noticing. Delighted you're paying attention.

Sandy Lyle
"Well, it's probably about as bad as yesterday being good. Complete both end of the scale, from being feeling really good, even my 69 left quite a few shots out there. But then I had one or two good up and downs and went to the other side of it, you know, battered and bruised. I realized I've got no excuse and I have to go and control my ball and unfortunately the first eight, nine holes I was playing with a square golf ball."

Rory McIlroy
"I am just not myself at the moment and this is the sort of golf course that makes your mistakes look even worse when you are slightly off. But I just didn't play well. I am disappointed but I have a couple of weeks now to work on it and try and get it back. I played the par fives poorly this week and it's just not all there so I need a bit of time to get it back on track."

Padraig Harrington
"I didn't play very well yesterday and did well to shot the score and it was kind of the opposite today - I played well and didn't score. It was tough today, the pins were very tough and I got on to the back foot and tried to go after them. I never had the luxury of making mistakes today and a couple of holes got away from me. It is a bad time to play like that given the week that it is."

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