Retief Goosen
Retief Goosen
Retief Goosenis a South African professional golfer who was in the top ten in the Official World Golf Ranking for over 250 weeks between 2001 and 2007. His main achievements have been two U.S. Open winsand heading the European Tour Order of Meritin 2001 and 2002...
NationalitySouth African
ProfessionGolfer
Date of Birth3 February 1969
besides birds cheer definitely hear knew nobody normally obviously quieter singing
One hole, you could hear the birds singing away, like there's nobody on the course. It's definitely a lot quieter out there than you normally hear around Augusta, besides the one big cheer we heard. And we obviously all knew that was Tiger.
lightning thinking
No, I'm not even thinking about the lightning incident,
bad games player
Just about every player on tour has a bad back. It's just one of those games that does mess you up a little bit. You've got to keep looking after it.
hit hurt
Luckily, it doesn't really hurt me when I hit the ball. I know it's there, but it's nothing serious.
both cars everybody
Luckily, everybody is still breathing. When both cars are a write off, then it's not a little bump.
Unbelievable. I thought if I got to 9 under, I'd have a chance.
consistency golf good hopefully level memories pleased week won year
This year I have been pleased with my level of consistency, but a little disappointed not to have won, ... But having won here in 2000, I have a lot of good memories of this golf course, so hopefully this is the week that I make the breakthrough.
everybody feelings few mixed playing
There are a few mixed feelings out there. But at the end of the day everybody is playing the same course.
although dubai guys playing somewhere top week
We all know why they are playing in Dubai this week, ... The top guys can't play every week, although they are playing this week somewhere else.
gel played seem similar sort today
Today we played very well, we just seem to play a similar sort of game. We gel well with each other.
lose quickly shots three
You can lose a three shots very quickly around here,
knew obviously tiger
We obviously knew it was Tiger doing something.
eight european few played straight weather
We've played in sleet a few times on the European tour, but Europe is not this bad. We never have weather like this for eight straight weeks.
bad drive good
Two under is not a bad start. That was pretty much as good as I could have shot. I didn't drive it well. I was making a lot of five-footers for par, which is not good.