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
He started pushing to make birdies and you don't do that when you're down.
I have not enjoyed it yet. No matter how hard I try, it might be almost an impossible thing to do again. You never know, we'll try again next year and see what happens.
I have a lot of friends, in and out of golf, and there is a mutual trust. I'm very serious at the course. Maybe if I joked around more around the press tent, your image of me would be different. But that's not me. And the golf course is my office. If I come up to you when you're writing a story, are you going to drop everything to talk? Or are you going to say you're too busy doing your job?
The conditions are perfect. When it's warm, the ball does go farther and it makes the golf hole a lot shorter. That's why the first hole I hit driver, nine-iron and yesterday I hit a driver, five-iron. So that's the difference with the wind.
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 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.
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.
The more they made noise, the more calm I became.
It's like getting the Williams sisters to play (tennis) against a man, and they're far better athletes than she (Sorenstam) is.
The way you play, you need to talk about winning. Don't talk about keeping your card - talk about winning.
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.
Maybe I should write 'Tiger Who?' on my cap.
I'm playing pretty good now, but my ranking doesn't say that. I'm number two.