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
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.
career golfing mental turned
I think what has turned my golfing career is my mental toughness,
course golf hands heard longer plays
I think any golf course they make longer plays into the hands of Tiger. I think he's just smiling. You haven't heard him complaining about that. The longer they can make it, the better for him.
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,
drive front greens hit putting saw shoot six today
I saw the greens very well today and I read the greens very well, especially on the front nine. That was the key, putting well. I didn't drive too well. I only hit six fairways out of 14, so I did well to shoot 64.
ahead crowd double expect heard miss phil saw
I saw him miss the return, and I heard someone in the crowd say, 'You're two ahead now, ... I didn't really expect Phil to make double on 17.
beat great pleasure
You always get more pleasure if you beat great players.
blowing dry greens starts tougher wind
It can only get tougher out there when the wind starts blowing and the greens dry out.
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,
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.