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
bad bogey few front green hit holes putting quite second start struggled took
I got off to a bad start on the first when I hit my second over the green and took a bogey five. Ernie then birdied quite a few holes on the front nine, but I struggled all day. While Ernie was always putting for birdies, I was scrambling.
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.
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.
ask quite releases somebody tee wherever
When I play over here (the U.S.), I have to get releases there and when I play in Europe, I have to get releases from here. Wherever I want to tee it up, I have to ask somebody if I can play. It's quite scary.
amongst media next point sure talking tv week
I'm sure it will be a talking point amongst the media and on TV next week but it's not something I even think of.
double knew playing
I knew he was playing well, ... But on 17 when he made double bogey, it went my way.
although knew mentally pull struggling
I knew what I had to do today. Although I was struggling with some shots, mentally I was able to pull it through.
keeping putting
I'm putting very well. I only had 25 putts. That's keeping me alive.
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.
happiness jumps somebody
I'm not really somebody that jumps up and down, ... But on the inside, I was happy.
bit breeze chance course guys hopefully shoot six slightly win
I'm going to need to shoot six under to have a chance to win because there are a lot of guys up there but hopefully there will be a bit more breeze to make the course slightly more difficult.
flags lucky positions tricky
I'm going to have to get really lucky tomorrow, ... The flags are going to be in some tricky positions to get up-and-down from.
believes glad great win
I'm glad for Gary. He's such a great competitor, and he probably still believes he can win out here.
hard hard-work shot work
I'm grinding, that's for sure. Every shot is hard work at the moment.