17 October 2010

GORDON SIMPSON: I got the impression FOURTH ROUND 65 18-Under Total 270 at the prize giving that there was quite a bit of emotion in your voice when you were speaking. RICHARD GREEN: Yeah, obviously, RICHARD GREEN winning for me is a lot. I've felt a lot of pressure to win over the years, and feeling more pressure than GORDON SIMPSON: Many most. Some of the guys out there, they win congratulations, Richard, the week-in and week-out or win more than me, and Champion for 2010. And I think it's fair to say, you know, I want to win a lot, and obviously there's stepping out today, you probably had no idea that a lot of pressure associated with that and a lot of you would be sitting here with this trophy in front of work. When you're putting in the work, and you you at this stage. get the result at the end of it, it's a fair emotional RICHARD GREEN: No, I thought I was a sort of comedown I suppose. little too it far back, being sort of seven shots I've got a lot of support behind me and my behind the leader. But you know, I set out there family, and friends that watch me and play with today to shoot a good score and I had 64 in my me over the years. We all talk about winning and mind and I thought if I got anywhere near, I would doing well on The European Tour and getting the have a great week. World Ranking up there. You know, it's just a And to be here now with the trophy is just great achievement in the end. a fantastic feeling. I've worked very hard, and I've GORDON SIMPSON: Well it did work out had some opportunities to win this year and let well in the end, but we'll take some questions now. them slip. To be honest, I thought this one slipped by as well. But you know, the way it's worked out, Q. Is this the most bizarre victory? I'm happy. RICHARD GREEN: Yeah, a little bit. I GORDON SIMPSON: It was a bit of a sort of -- I've seen wins like this before. I've seen ragged finish as you would admit yourself, but guys obviously get in the clubhouse early with a probably you knew the way the course was good score and then end up winning. That's playing, there were opportunities for others to probably a little bit more comfortable way of make mistakes. winning, that's for sure; the stress of trying to play RICHARD GREEN: Yeah, the closing out a playoff like my other wins have been is holes were not probably playing as easy as they immense. You have to play exceptional golf to win played over the course of the week. I suppose 18 in playoffs to win, obviously. And obviously the is always a very difficult hole. same to win anyway. You've got to play The short hole, even the short hole, 15, it exceptional golf these days out here. was a difficult pin location today. And to try and get that like we are all trying to do is a difficult ask, Q. All of these rewards, I see you're up that's for sure. to 22nd on the Money List, going to Dubai and But I was pretty -- I'm very happy with it, Shanghai; that's good. obviously, the results, it's unreal. A strange way to RICHARD GREEN: That's absolutely a win, but a win's a win. bonus. I had planned to play all the way to Dubai and obviously playing in Dubai this year was my main goal towards the end of the year. And

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visit our archives at asapsports.com obviously a win has been in there, as well, as a RICHARD GREEN: I practised well. I goal, and I've achieved that now. I'm just going to prepared well for the tournament. I just did go and enjoy the run and The Race to Dubai at the things -- if I was a little unsure of a certain shot that end of the year and hopefully keep playing well. I played during the day, I practised it very hard to GORDON SIMPSON: The bonus pool make sure that as the week went on, I had 100 per comes into calculations now, doesn't it. cent of the golf game coming into Sunday. RICHARD GREEN: That's right. There's You know, the highlight of the week was all sorts of different levels of achieving, isn't there. my whole golf game, and it's all got to come I'll keep going and hopefully sharp on form and together to win, obviously. The putter has to work. playing well hopefully. Short game's got to work. I still think there's area for improvement with my short game obviously, Q. What would you say is your biggest and you know, I'm going to keep working on that achievement in terms of wins? over the coming weeks. RICHARD GREEN: Yeah, look, all of the But my driving has been -- my driver hasn't wins that I've had, I've had three wins: I won in been working sort of for a while now, and finally Dubai, I won in Austria and I won here. And they now I'm competitive again with it. are all the same. I won the in 2004. Winning is just the most amazing feeling, Q. Spoken to Anita yet? and feeling achievement and relief that you've got RICHARD GREEN: No. it across the line. I wouldn't say one is better than the other. This is the same as when I won in Dubai Q. Back in ? and it's the same as when I won the Australian RICHARD GREEN: I'm sure she'll be very Masters and the same as when I won in Austria. excited. Just a great feeling, and we are here now, GORDON SIMPSON: When you do you and it's amazing. get back there again. RICHARD GREEN: I don't know. With the Q. Would you say that at a certain time, amount of tournaments going on, I don't know. It's you were thinking, here we go for another one of those downsides to being a pro golfer I playoff? suppose. My daughter goes to school in , RICHARD GREEN: Yeah, definitely. and she's doing really well at school and all their When the closing few holes, you know, I thought things, and I have to go away and work. So it's Pablo would probably possibly even have beat me just part of being a golfer from Australia. by two. I didn't really expect it. But obviously GORDON SIMPSON: And you're playing when he ran out of holes, obviously I was thinking Castellon this week? playoff. RICHARD GREEN: Yeah, I'm going down Even at the last hole, he has a chance of there, and Valderrama, and then obviously HSBC making birdie on the last, and I need to be sort of and then Singapore and Hong Kong. prepared for that. So I thought it might have been I don't know, I'll have to think about how a chance, yeah. I'm sort of going to manage the next few weeks and how I go, but I plan to keep playing. Q. What was your strategy for today? RICHARD GREEN: Yeah, it's been a Q. A 500,000 Euro cheque, new race go-for-broke sort of strategy to be honest. You've car? got to take the opportunity on most of the holes RICHARD GREEN: Yeah, I'd like to think that are opportunities out there, and I felt I did that. so. But I've wanted to upgrade the one I've got at You know, the score came to me by staying the moment. relaxed and staying focussed on what I had to do at the very moment, and that was my strategy to Q. Which is? stay that way. Just stick one shot at a time, and I RICHARD GREEN: One of those 996 did that. It's good. GT3 Carrera Cup cars. I raced at the Australian Grand Prix this year in March, and I raced in the Q. Looking back on the week, what did Australian Grand Prix again in March in the you do well all week?

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Australian GT championship. It's a support race out there for the Formula I.

Q. Did you win? RICHARD GREEN: Actually this year I finished fourth in the class in GT Challenge, which I was very happy about. I normally go to the podium; if the race finished under green conditions, I would have gone to the podium in the Challenge, that's an achievement. That's my passion, apart from golf. GORDON SIMPSON: Where was that? RICHARD GREEN: Albert Park.

Q. With The Ryder Cup sign behind you, would you like to be involved in The Presidents Cup at some time? RICHARD GREEN: Absolutely. I've been in the selection squad a couple of times, and I've been to a lot of meetings where all of the guys have been there and we have talked about, you know, in the lead-up to The Presidents Cup and things like that. So I'd love to be on that team. I mean, golf is an individual sport, as we play it now, but whenever there's an opportunity, there's a team sport, I'd like to be able to do that. I've played a couple of World Cups for Australia, and it's a great feeling when you have someone on your side and you're playing together. So I'd like to do that one day. GORDON SIMPSON: Well, you certainly made the podium today. Well done and congratulations.

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