Vijay Singh
Vijay Singh
Vijay Singh, CF, nicknamed "The Big Fijian", is a Fijian professional golfer who was Number 1 in the Official World Golf Ranking for 32 weeks in 2004 and 2005. He has won three major championshipsand was the leading PGA Tour money winner in 2003, 2004 and 2008. He was elected to the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2005. He won the FedEx Cup in 2008...
NationalityFijian
ProfessionGolfer
Date of Birth22 February 1963
CityLautoka, Fiji
CountryFiji
It never really crossed my mind that I was ever going to win a major. I always said that if you win a major, that's fine. If you don't, you tried your best.
The people who know me, the people who see the passion I have for this game and the respect for it, they know that I don't cut any corners in the way I approach golf.
I have this reputation of not wanting to talk to the media, which isn't true. What I don't like-what a lot of us don't understand-is how we can say one thing and it turns up in print as something else.
If I can hit the ball the way I want to hit it on the range, I'd rather do that than play golf. I just love the feeling of hitting good golf shots.
The way you play, you need to talk about winning. Don't talk about keeping your card - talk about winning.
It's like getting the Williams sisters to play (tennis) against a man, and they're far better athletes than she (Sorenstam) is.
The more they made noise, the more calm I became.
In my heart I know what kind of person I am, and that's good enough.
I think we have arrived at the stage where we are making it too complicated. I know guys who can't play two rounds before running to their teachers.
I'm going to go out and play really hard. If I have another win, it will be icing on the cake. But I don't take anything for granted.
I'm playing pretty good now, but my ranking doesn't say that. I'm number two.
Golf is about knowledge, and studying another player - more than listening to a teacher - is the best way to get it.
The only part of my game that's not as strong this year is probably my putting,
Tomorrow I've got to do it again, I have to shoot the lowest round I possibly can.