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
gap hardest hole left stand trees yards
I think 11 is probably the hardest hole out there. You stand on the tee, and there's trees right, trees left and about 10 yards gap in between, and that's really all you see.
gap hardest hit hole left stand tee trees yard
I think 11 is the hardest hole on the course. I hit it in the threes on the right. You stand on the tee and there's trees right, trees left and about a 10 yard gap in between. That's all you see from the tee.
catch hard mind win
It's on my mind. If I win here and one of the two others, it will be hard to catch me,
birdie far front nine
On the front nine I never really did anything. All of my birdie putts were really too far away to make anything,
birdie difficult driving good solid
It was a good solid round. My driving (was the only frustration). By not having good drives, it's difficult to have birdie chances.
champion good open win
I'm the US Open champion and I'm good enough to win this match.
birds hear nobody singing
You could hear the birds singing away, like there's nobody on the course.
catch guys maybe tough win
If you can do well in them, and maybe win one, then it is going to be very tough for the other guys to catch up,
body feed frame gave language mind
I could tell by his body language that he wasn't in the right frame of mind and that gave me encouragement. When you see him slouching down the fairway you can feed off that energy.
last putting saving trying
I think my putting has been saving me all week, last week, too. But I'm trying to get comfortable on my driving.
besides birds cheer definitely hear knew nobody normally obviously quieter singing
One hole, you could hear the birds singing away, like there's nobody on the course. It's definitely a lot quieter out there than you normally hear around Augusta, besides the one big cheer we heard. And we obviously all knew that was Tiger.
adam carried couple
Adam carried us the first couple of days,
afternoon bit felt good greens missed shot six three tricky
I didn't really play all that well. I missed a lot of greens but I chipped and putted very well and holed a lot of good putts for pars. The greens were a bit more tricky this afternoon with all the traffic. I felt I could have shot a good round. I was three under through six and then nothing happens,
chips normally within
It was one of those chips that I can normally get to within 8 feet, and it just went in.