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
bit funny ribs sore struggling
Funny enough, I've been struggling a little bit with a sore rib. Everybody's got sore ribs this week.
feeling funny low shoot somebody stayed weather
I had a funny feeling somebody would shoot low around here ... if the weather stayed the way it was.
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.
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.
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.
course easy everybody lucky
Everybody struggled, ... The course wasn't easy and, you know, I'm just lucky to be on top.
bad good jay saw start tiger
At the start of the day I thought 11- or 12-under (would win), ... When I saw Tiger and Jay got off to a bad start I thought nine-under would be a good score.
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,
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.
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.