Welsh Gareth Bale, former Real Madrid player, has assured that he will not pursue a professional career in golf. He participated in tournaments of the sport since retired from football at the beginning of 2023.
Bale always demonstrated the admiration for the sport, even when still acting in the lawns. Despite living more intensely in recent years, Welsh has assured that it is far from the level of professional athletes.
“I am absolutely convinced, 100% sure that I will not be able to be professional. When you play golf and watch professional golfers play, even compared to your best moments, you are not close. When I played with these players and watched them, I realized how good they are,” Bale said in an interview with the portal “BBC”.
participated for the first time in a professional golf competition in February 2023, when he was in the T&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.
“No matter what their friends. They (professionals) are playing under the most severe pressure, in tournament conditions, in difficult climates. So there will be no professional golf for me. But I love the game. I love to watch, I love to cultivate it,” said the Welsh.
The taste for golf even generated controversy when Bale was a soccer athlete. In 2019, after the Country of Wales for the 2020 Euro, Gareth Bale showed a flag that said: “Wales. Golf. Madrid. In that order.”
At the time, the attitude left fans of the Revolted, so they even asked for the club to leave the club. He was loaned to Tottenham in 2020. Gareth Bale’s last team was Los Angeles FC from the United States.
