Ernie Els
Ernie Els
Theodore Ernest "Ernie" Elsis a South African professional golfer. A former World No. 1, he is known as "The Big Easy" due to his imposing physical stature) along with his fluid golf swing. Among his 71 career victories are four major championships: the U.S. Open in 1994 at Oakmont and in 1997 at Congressional, and The Open Championship in 2002 at Muirfield and in 2012 at Royal Lytham & St Annes. He is one of six golfers to twice win...
NationalitySouth African
ProfessionAthlete
mostly ready spoke turn whom word
Ernie told her there was no need to wait, as he thought she was ready to turn pro, ... He spoke mostly to Michelle, but also had a word with her dad, whom he told the same thing.
felt honest won
Felt I should have won that one, to be honest with you.
difficult good hit known past putt second shot thinking tried
Right now, the putt on the 72nd hole, that's the putt I'm going to be thinking about. I hit such a good second shot and had such a difficult putt. If I'd known how difficult it was from there, I'd have hit it past the pin, which I tried to do in the playoff. I had my chances, though.
african open plan south
Right now the plan is to come back for the South African Open in December,
greens last perhaps small year
Perhaps I know the greens a little better than Vijay because of last year and I know where they will break. I would like to think I have perhaps a very small advantage.
experience helped quite
I've been around for quite while and experience has helped me having big leads,
basically couple
I've always done it, and I will keep doing it. A couple of putts here and there could have been better two years ago, and that's basically that. If I could just make a couple more putts, there wouldn't be this argument.
bringing game golf playing practiced ready thanks total
Thanks for bringing that up, I never thought of it. When you play golf tournaments you never think about it. When you are playing you try and be ready with your total game and when that is well groomed and practiced you are ready for the tournament. That has always been my philosophy.
bit chipping feet fit hopefully moment possible putting stay
At the moment I have to stay off my feet as much as possible but hopefully I'll be fit enough to do a bit of chipping and putting soon.
standard
Vijay (Singh) has set the standard for the 40-somethings and I'm not even there yet.
ben greens phil tiger
There's no one better than Ben on the greens here at Augusta, probably him, Tiger (Woods) and Phil (Mickelson). I think Ben still may be even better than Tiger on the greens.
guys level sunday tour
The Tour should be on a different level than you guys play on Saturday, Sunday mornings.
channel exciting golf instead stuff
That was exciting stuff. They can show that on The Golf Channel every day instead of all that other stuff they show.
eight happy needed three
That's what I needed to do, ... I made eight birdies ... and, unfortunately, three bogeys. So I'm still making mistakes. But I've got to be happy with that.