Team Cup

Sunday, January 12, 2025

Abu Dhabi, UAE

Abu Dhabi Golf Resort

Continental Europe

Niklas Norgaard

Quick Quotes


Q. Individually, two halves, and today your first full point. How satisfied with that?

NIKLAS NORGAARD: We are here for the team, so very disappointed about that obviously. But it has been such, such a cool week, and we had a little team talk this morning that just, yeah, from the captains, and I was just ready to run through a wall after that talk.

Yeah, so cool, so I can only math I think what the Ryder Cup was like.

Q. Give us an idea what was said during that speech, I. Understand José Maria was certainly giving motivational speeches, his never say die, along with Severiano Ballesteros; they proved so much in Ryder Cup.

NIKLAS NORGAARD: Yeah, he was kind of giving us two options: Either we could go out and play and see what happens, or we can go out and fight like Seve would, and he just gave a few examples. Yeah, it's very special.

Q. Obviously it has not worked out for you and your captain, but what would you say about Francesco and the way he's led the team?

NIKLAS NORGAARD: He's a huge profile and he's very, very good at what he does, not just from what he says, but what he does. If you just follow him, you can see he's a true champion, and then I would be happy to follow him everywhere.

Q. Obviously you've had the likes of Paul McGinley, Luke Donald, etc., talking to you about the art of match play. How much do you think you've learned individually about how to play this different form of the game?

NIKLAS NORGAARD: I really want to take a lot of what this week have brought and how you play match play into my stroke play. Because it's like you play with less consequence, and not thinking about what's on the sides but just thinking about the target. I think I can bring a lot of that into individual tournaments.

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