Ricardo Gouveia, UAE Challenge Tournament Preview Interview

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00:00Just super happy with the win. Obviously, it takes a lot of hard work to win everywhere,

00:05but it's great to cap it off on Sunday the way I did.

00:09Obviously, a bit of experience helped. I was still very nervous towards the end.

00:15I dealt with it really well and all the mental work that I've been doing

00:21helped me a lot in that situation.

00:22I just three-parted 16, so I made a bogey there, but I just stayed very patient,

00:30had a good attitude towards it and just tried to finish the best that I could.

00:3417 hit two great shots in there, finished with a great putt.

00:39And then 18 has been a tee shot that I wasn't really comfortable throughout the whole week.

00:45And I spoke the night before with my mental coach about a couple of tee shots and 18 was one of them.

00:50We had a good strategy for that hole, played a beautiful tee shot.

00:54In the second shot, I was trying to go a little left of the pin, middle of the green,

00:58pushed it a little bit, but it was striked really well.

01:01So the ball just stayed on its line, pulled a nice putt to make an eagle to finish.

01:07Since becoming a father, it was funny.

01:09I wasn't doing very well on course, off the course as well before my son was born.

01:14And then after my son was born, my perspective kind of changed a little bit.

01:18I'm more relaxed and they've been traveling quite a lot with me, so it's great.

01:21When they come with me, like after golf is over, I come back and I'm a dad.

01:25I'm just doing my normal dad stuff and you completely forget about golf and that's great.

01:32Otherwise, it's hard to not think about golf if they're not here,

01:36but I try and do that as much as I can and just shut it off.

01:41Unfortunately, they weren't here last week, but they'll be back on the road again next week.

01:47So I'm looking forward to seeing them again and obviously my wife as well.

01:52Two great courses.

01:53Obviously, the weather is amazing.

01:55It's almost too warm to play golf, but it's better than being too cold.

01:59Hospitality has been amazing.

02:01We just love it coming out here and play some good tournaments.

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