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12.10 Hva sa han?
Etter sin første seier på
St. Andrews
Stephen Gallacher mente selv
han ikke hadde vunnet uten
mageputteren.
Nevøen til legendariske
Barnhard Gallacher vant sin
første seier på Europa
Tour'en sist helg. Selvsagt
var det meget spesielt for
skotten å vinne på
selveste St. Andrews. Her er
intervjuet med han etter
seieren (fra The Golf Press
Association).
Q. No better place
for your first win, I
presume?
STEPHEN GALLACHER:
Well it is definitely the
one outwith the PGA that you
want to win on the European
Tour. I had a few chances
early on but with it being
St Andrews a good shot means
around 15 feet with the pins
being so tight. At the
fourth hole I holed a 25
footer down the hill which
got me going.
Q. Talk us through
the 17th?
STEPHEN GALLACHER:
Well with the big wait on
the tee, I decided to hit it
left off the tee and just to
slide it over because I was
playing for the front right
anyway. I had a heavy lie
and it just didn’t come out
and ended up short on line
so I had no shot at all, I
just had to try and putt it
to 25 feet and hope I holed
it but I missed it.
Q. Sensational birdie
at the 19th?
STEPHEN GALLACHER:
Yes it was a perfect number
for me. I had 106 yards and
I hit my lob wedge 100 yards
and it was a six mile an
hour wind so it was a
perfect shot for me. I hit
it to about four feet. I hit
a three iron from the tee.
Q. Did you always
know you were going to win?
STEPHEN GALLACHER: It
is fine knowing you are
going to do it but it is
another thing actually doing
it. I have been knocking on
the door for a while and
everybody telling me I am
good enough to do it but it
is actually doing it that
gives you the most pleasure.
It is tough out here, the
standards are so good.
Q. What can this win
do for you?
STEPHEN GALLACHER:
Hopefully I can go on and
win again, and get far
enough up the world rankings
so that I can get into the
World Golf Championship
events. I think that is what
you need to do more than
anything else and I think
that has to be my next step.
Q. You didn’t really
like the Old Course when you
first started playing?
STEPHEN GALLACHER:
Yes, but t he weather was
absolutely perfect, you
couldn’t have had it any
better. As I said yesterday,
it is a course which grows
on you. For a start you
think it is nothing special
but the more you play, the
more you realise what you
have to do. If you are going
to miss it, you have to miss
it one way and stuff like
that. You have to think your
way round.
Q. You have had
chances before, what was the
difference today?
STEPHEN GALLACHER: I
have just done a lot of work
with Adam on trying to get
my game as repetitive as you
can. To keep that
consistency in my game, in
the way I think, because I
have been a bit scatterbrain
in the past, thinking about
other things, so I was
trying to get on the level.
Q. You look very calm?
STEPHEN GALLACHER: I
just kept trying to go with
my routine and enjoy it.
That is all you can do. As I
said to Adam there, if you
said at the start of the day
that I was going to be in a
play-off, you’d be delighted
wouldn’t you.
Q. Did you ask
Dermont Desmond about Celtic?
STEPHEN GALLACHER: No
I asked him that in the
practice round.
Q. Did you get an
answer?
STEPHEN GALLACHER:
Well not really, no!
Q. What did Adam say
to you on the practice green
before you went out in the
play-off?
STEPHEN GALLACHER:
Just to go out and try to
enjoy it, stick to the same
routines you had in the
round before. This is what
you practice for to be in
situations like this.
Q. Has Bernard called
you?
STEPHEN GALLACHER:
I’ve have not heard at all,
my phone is off, but I
presume he will.
Q. Are you still
working with John Pates?
STEPHEN GALLACHER:
Yes, he has helped me
definitely. I saw him this
morning and I saw him
yesterday. It is hard out
there for six hours and we
talk about how I am going to
switch off because you only
need to get tuned up for
when you are hitting the
ball. It is good talking to
my pla ying partners and
Marcus is a good guy. Just
take your mind off it and
keep going.
Q. What did you mean
when you said you were
scatterbrain?
STEPHEN GALLACHER:
Well just trying to get a
goal in sight, working
towards something. This is
going back three years when
I changed management and
coach and I started working
with a psychologist. Because
I was thinking swing
technique all the time and
going down that road,
instead of thinking about
the shot you are going to
hit. This has given me the
freedom to do that, and I
can just let my golf go.
Q. Did the other
Scots staying with you give
you encouragement this
morning?
STEPHEN GALLACHER: I
room with them all the time
and they just said good luck
and stuff like that.
Q. What do you do
with £445,000?
STEPHEN GALLACHER: I
don’t know.
Q. Don’t give it to
Celtic
STEPHEN GALLACHER: I
won’t, I’m cleverer than
that.
Q. Was your
grandfather here today?
STEPHEN GALLACHER: He
was, his name is Bernard,
although everyone calls him
Barney
Q. Was it difficult
to remain patient waiting
for the win to come?
STEPHEN GALLACHER: It
gets a bit frustrating, but
at the end of the day, a lot
of guys have to wait for
their first win into their
late 30s and 40s so you just
have to wait. You can’t let
it get to you, that is the
main thing, the more you
think about it, the more you
are not going to do it.
Q. Do you have any
psychological tricks?
STEPHEN GALLACHER:
No, not at all. You just
want to be able to stand
over the ball and not think
about anything else other
than where you are going to
hit it. Then when you find
it, try and put it where you
want to put it and then pick
a line with your putt and if
it doesn’t go in, it doesn’t
go in. That’s all you can
do, just try to simplify
things instead of beating
yourself up about stuff.
That is why I enjoyed it
today, because I just got on
with it.
Q. Is this a weight
off your shoulders?
STEPHEN GALLACHER: Of
course, it is a two year
exemption, perfect.
Q. Before this, what
was your best moment in
golf?
STEPHEN GALLACHER:
Probably winning the Walker
Cup. Tiger was in the team
but I didn’t personally beat
him, him and John Harris
beat me and Gordon Sherry in
the foursomes.
Q. Different mental
approach today?
STEPHEN GALLACHER: No
it has been the same for six
months.
Q. Belly putter?
STEPHEN GALLACHER: I
tried putting with a short
putter this year a couple of
times but it was
unbelievably bad.
Q. Could you have won
with a short putter?
STEPHEN GALLACHER:
No. Well you never say
never, but I feel more
confident with the belly
putter.
Q. Did the criticism
of the belly putter earlier
this year upset you?
STEPHEN GALLACHER:
No, not at all.
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