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
anywhere course drive driving game
It's very much a driving course now. You have to drive it straight. In the past, you could drive it anywhere and get on the greens. Now every part of your game is getting tested.
ball course dry nice running throw ton water yards
The ball is running 30 yards down the hill. They are probably going to go and throw a ton of water on the fairways to make it not run. But I think it would be nice to see the course dry for a change.
bit enjoy playing spectators sponsors
It's going to be nice. It's what the sponsors want and the spectators want. I always enjoy playing with Ernie and playing with him just makes you concentrate that little bit more.
build good great next three
It's great to get off to a good start. Now I have something to build on for the next three rounds.
build good great happy next obviously start three
It's great to get off to a good start. Now, I have something to build on for the next three rounds. Obviously there is still a long way to go but I'm very happy to start off like this.
finish great season
It's great to finish the season off this way. It has been a great year,
ahead days last lucky quickly stay win
It's just lucky for me the last two days that I have managed to get ahead very quickly and stay there and win by a big margin,
fun grinding masters mind open tougher
It used to be a fun week. Now it's a grinding week. The Masters is now like the U.S. Open - even tougher on the mind than the U.S. Open.
fun grinding
It used to be a fun week. Now, it's a grinding week.
aggressive awhile control knew learn took
It took him awhile to learn to play the majors. He was way too aggressive and took too many chances. We all knew that. He's got it under control now.
bit finished hurting walk yesterday
It is still hurting a little bit when I walk and especially in the pro-am yesterday when I finished it was pretty sore.
carry ended good last pity quite ran sort
It's a pity we ran out of daylight. But it's quite good now that it ended the way it did, because we can sort of carry on from last time. It was so close. This time, we can go at it again.
bit hit hitting irons matter straight
As long as you hit it straight (at Augusta National) it doesn't matter how long you hit it. You still have to hit it straight and hit the shots. I think I'm hitting my irons a little bit better at the moment, which is a big plus.
adam few kept played struggled
Adam played well today, ... I struggled and was completely out of it on a few holes, but he kept us going.