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
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.
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.
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.
knew obviously tiger
We obviously knew it was Tiger doing something.
blow might moaning tomorrow
You know, tomorrow it might blow a gale and we'll all be moaning at things.
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.
excuse serious sort
He's got to have some sort of excuse not to play. I mean, serious excuse.
chance green hitting miss
Hitting the fairways here is the most important thing, ... If you miss a green, you have a chance of getting up and down. If you miss the fairways, you have no chance of getting on the green from this rough.
played pressure
We made the right putts at the right time, ... We played solid. We played good. The pressure was always on them.
pressure
We made the putts at the right time. The pressure was always on them.
four hit holes onto roll
He got on a roll early, I think he was three-under after four holes and he hit everything the right place onto the greens.
mental side temper worked
I worked on my temper and worked with Jos from 1998 to 2002 on the mental side of the game.
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.