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JOHNNIE WALKER CHAMPIONSHIP AT GLENEAGLESAugust 23, 2013Ricardo GonzalezGLENEAGLES, SCOTLAND Q. Where has the form come from? RICARDO GONZALEZ: I don't know, I think the five weeks of rest, charge my battery and that's all. Q. So when you have five weeks' holiday, no practise, or lots of practise? RICARDO GONZALEZ: Practise every day. I play 18 every day. It's very cold in Argentina, but practicer day. Q. You're an Argentine, I guess you like eating stake? RICARDO GONZALEZ: Yes. Q. What do you make of Scottish food? RICARDO GONZALEZ: Very good. Q. What about the weekend, you must be very excited because this is now an important week for you? RICARDO GONZALEZ: Yeah, important, because I not play good the start of the season, and I try to do the same thing, make putter and hit well like the last two days. Q. Is the course good for a big, strong boy? Is it good? RICARDO GONZALEZ: It's good for me. It's good for longer hitter, but straight, that is very important. Q. Shooting two low rounds back‑to‑back, it hasn't happened for while? RICARDO GONZALEZ: Yeah, two rounds, 65, I don't think I ever do that. I'm feeling good, I play good today, and like yesterday, I hit very good tee shot and especially very good I shot to the flag and also great putting makes it 26 and today is 26 or 27 putters, that's for a good score. Q. Where has this come from? Have you felt that it's been getting better? RICARDO GONZALEZ: The rest, five weeks' rest I think helped a lot. I changed my grip on Tuesday and I'm feeling good like that, and I think that's the key to hit well these first two days. Q. When you said yesterday that the weather was helping you focus your mind, as well, that it wasn't the sunshine, but you had to concentrate that much more, same again? RICARDO GONZALEZ: Yeah, I play better with no sun. Maybe. Maybe. You never know. I think the key is the putter. Q. Does your mind go back to the wonderful victories in Sweden and Spain? RICARDO GONZALEZ: Yeah sometimes on the course, but right now, this week. Q. And you're still very relaxed and positive? RICARDO GONZALEZ: Yeah, the last two days, yesterday and today, played another good shot and relaxing, working and I think that's what's consistent. Q. You changed your grip? RICARDO GONZALEZ: Normally I do like this, and with the fingers‑‑ more fingers on the right side. Q. I heard you say you were home for five weeks. Where is home for you? RICARDO GONZALEZ: My home is Rosario in Argentina. Q. Is that when you started playing as a kid, always been there? RICARDO GONZALEZ: Yeah. Q. What was the club that you started playing? RICARDO GONZALEZ: I'm starting, the name is. ..(inaudible) caddie for nine years, and then turn pro in 1985 but changed the course. Now I play in rose arrow golf club. Q. Why did you feel that you needed five weeks, it's quite a long time off. Why do you feel that? RICARDO GONZALEZ: I feel strange, because I need‑‑ I'm professional golf player, I need competition, but this time, I feeling great after five weeks, no. That's make more relaxing and I think that's the key to making good score. Q. Did you feel that you needed a long break because it has been a difficult year for you, hasn't it? RICARDO GONZALEZ: Yes, very difficult the last two years personally, no, because my mother go, my father and my father‑in‑law last week‑‑ two weeks. I think now I'm very happy because I focus on my shot and play relaxed and that's feeling good. Q. Has it been easy to focus again or has it been difficult to focus again? RICARDO GONZALEZ: For the first two days, no, difficult. Q. You say you lost your mother and father in the last two years? RICARDO GONZALEZ: Last year and this year, my father‑in‑law, sentimentalmente, maybe more relaxed now. Q. You have a good caddie? RICARDO GONZALEZ: Yes. Q. You've had him for a while? RICARDO GONZALEZ: Two years. Q. Is he good? RICARDO GONZALEZ: It's very important here. Local caddie. Q. Does Dave speak Spanish? RICARDO GONZALEZ: Some words, yeah. Nice gentleman, and just maybe more happy, more relaxed. Q. What would it mean to win here after the difficult time you've had? RICARDO GONZALEZ: Take a lot of pressure off, because I want to dedicate to my mother, to my father, target this week, I think it's very good to dedicate to that. Q. What were their names? RICARDO GONZALEZ: My marriage is Olga, my father Antonio and my father‑in‑law, Juan Carlos. Q. Do the rest of the family back home do they follow what you do? RICARDO GONZALEZ: Yes, and sometimes come here, but all the old caddies, happy me to see on TV. Q. Apart from golf every day, what did you do during those five weeks in Rosario? RICARDO GONZALEZ: Many things. Have a farm in Argentina and try to make a tournament, and try to make a charity tournament, to help the people over there, and that's‑‑ and then fishing and football, the Argentinian. Q. What's your team? RICARDO GONZALEZ: Rosario Central, going to the top now. Q. What animals do you have on your farm? RICARDO GONZALEZ: Cows and sheep, chicken. Q. Do you get up in the morning and feed them? RICARDO GONZALEZ: Yes. Q. What time, early? RICARDO GONZALEZ: Early, 5.30, 6.00, it's good. It's good to relax. FastScripts Transcript by ASAP Sports |
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