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
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.
few good greens last nice playing putting seeing
I've been putting very well all week, seeing the greens very well. I started playing better in the last few events. It was nice to have a good week.
bit break lucky nice roll
There was about a yard-and-a-half break on the putt, so it was nice to roll that one in. I was a little bit on the lucky side.
catch nice ready roll sleep
It was nice to roll that one in. Tonight, I'll catch up on some sleep and get ready for tomorrow.
coming expect good middle missed nice run start
It was nice to get off to that start and then I had a good run in the middle of the course. I must say coming out, I didn't expect a lot. I missed a lot of fairways, but I made a lot of putts.
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.