Andrew Coulthard

But congressional was sort of parkland, tree-lined course, bit of water, as you know.

The fairways only felt like they were about 12 yards wide.

And every time you got to the top of your backswing, you wanted to take another gulp of air just to try to survive.

It was just relentless.

It was just relentless.

You were under pressure absolutely from the beginning to the end.

Look, this one is a completely different test of golf.

It's a link-style golf course.

There's a lot of elevation changes.

Elements play a massive part of it.

It's a completely different style of golf.

But you are absolutely going to be up against it.

It's going to be physically and mentally wrecking.

And you've got to try and keep yourself upbeat.

You've got to understand, you know, Laurie's talking there about high numbers.

This is a completely different proposition to what

the players play pretty much at any other time of the year and you've just got to suck it up try and be patient understand that folk are going to make bogeys all over the place and it's those that can just carry on fighting right to the end that stand a better chance Let's get into the runners and riders for the first time since the creation of the Masters the first two majors of the year have been won by European golfers Rory and Augusta

Yeah, I take some notes just before we did this, you know, about three hours worth.

And yeah, no, he's fresh.

That's basically all I wrote down.