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
blowing easy hope par played playing round tournament wind
The wind has been blowing differently and the par fives played easy as it was blowing downwind today. You can't win a tournament in the first round so I'll just hope to keep playing well,
blowing dry greens starts tougher wind
It can only get tougher out there when the wind starts blowing and the greens dry out.
happened jeff mark nine struggled
Mark struggled and that's pretty much what happened with Jeff Maggert, ... He pretty much struggled all the way, especially on the back nine this morning, and that's really where I got ahead.
happened jeff mark struggled
Mark struggled and that's pretty much what happened with Jeff Maggert,
guy lose match played
Match play is completely game. You can play well and lose in match play. If you play well, the other guy just played better than you.
difference
It doesn't make much difference who it is.
easy
I think that's as easy as you will see it today.
holes last playing
Some of the holes are actually playing shorter than they did last year.
good putting saves
My putting is good at the moment, ... I'm making a lot of good saves out of the rough.
bad final rounds start
That was not the way I wanted to start -- I've had some bad rounds this year, especially some final rounds.
bad drive driving few hit hopefully quite work
I would like to go for the greens, but I keep driving in the rough. That's the problem. I hit a few bad drives. I didn't quite drive it as well as I did Thursday. I need to work on that a little this afternoon, and hopefully play better Saturday.
express love match next players three week win won
I would love to win ? not too many players have won it three times, ... But this week, next week at the World Match Play and the American Express are three very important weeks.
front michael nine obviously today tournament won
Michael obviously today didn't play all that well on the front nine and that won the tournament for me,
field great last played week win
Last week wasn't a great field but I played well and it would be great to win again,