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
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.
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,
few found game golf great last obviously
He's got a great golf swing. He's obviously found his game the last few years.
holes last playing
Some of the holes are actually playing shorter than they did last year.
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.
difficult last momentum time
It's all about momentum. The last time here, (the USA) got momentum on us very quickly. It's difficult to come back from that.
ahead days last lucky quickly stay win
It's just lucky for me the last two days that I have managed to get ahead very quickly and stay there and win by a big margin,
bit course five good holes last played playing purely running seen shape
I think the course is in as good of shape as I've seen it in the last five years. You know the fairways are running a little bit and some holes are actually playing shorter than it's played in the last five years, purely because you get some run in the fairways.
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.
great hands last played ten time trophy win
Ernie played very well and I got away with it at the end there. It's great to win this trophy again. The last time was ten years ago so it's great to get my hands on it again.
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.