Retief Goosen Played Quotations

Match play is completely game. You can play well and lose in match play. If you play well, the other guy just played better than you.

I think the course setup was perfect today. Tomorrow it might blow a gale, and we'll all be moaning at things. But I don't think anybody will be unhappy with the way the course played today.

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.

I put them in the cupboard. It's the first time I've done that - not played for five weeks.

Today we played very well, we just seem to play a similar sort of game. We gel well with each other.

It was pretty close at one stage, but he played awesome. He ran away with it at the end. We all probably thought 9 under would be a good score.

The wind has been blowing differently and the par fives played easy as it was blowing downwind today. You can't win a tournament in the first round so I'll just hope to keep playing well,

We made the right putts at the right time, ... We played solid. We played good. The pressure was always on them.

Adam played well today, ... I struggled and was completely out of it on a few holes, but he kept us going.

Last week wasn't a great field but I played well and it would be great to win again,

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.

He ran away with it. He played unbelievable.

We've played in sleet a few times on the European tour, but Europe is not this bad. We never have weather like this for eight straight weeks.

I played terrible. I think I was over-par this morning and much the same this afternoon so I deserved to lose. I just didn't make a putt, was wayward off the tee and missed a lot of fairways.

I played terrible. I just didn't make a putt and was wayward off the tee and missed a lot of fairways. Michael got on a roll at the start, but if I had played a bit of a game out there it would have been nice.

I don't think anybody will be unhappy with the way the course played today.

I'm disappointed that it wasn't a little bit closer but I had my chances. Stephen played awesome. He ran away with it at the end.