Retired tennis star Andy Murray is taking part in on the Sunningdale Foursomes whereas ex-footballer Gareth Bale can be within the discipline
Andy Murray has traded in tennis for golf (Picture: Andrew Redington, Getty Photos)
Tennis icon Andy Murray is amongst the distinguished figures set to compete within the Sunningdale Foursomes. Whereas he’s comparatively new to the golf circuit, the Scot’s taking part in companion on the match has courted controversy with a few of his behaviour each on and off the course. Murray has embraced golf enthusiastically since calling time on his tennis profession and has teamed up with Eddie Pepperell at Sunningdale in Surrey. The duo had been additionally paired collectively ultimately 12 months’s Alfred Dunhill Hyperlinks Championship, the place they secured a tied 18th-place end on the Professional-Am competitors.
Former Wales worldwide footballer Gareth Bale is one other movie star becoming a member of established professionals, partnering with Matthew Wylie at Sunningdale for a second time. Murray’s taking part in companion, nevertheless, has hit headlines for a wide range of causes, not all of them good. Pepperell beforehand obtained a suspension from his house venue, Frilford Heath in Oxfordshire, after damaging a inexperienced. He recounted his model of occasions to PING’s A Spherical with Radar following his six-month ban.
“It was the membership championship, I believe it was the second spherical,” Pepperell stated. “It grew to become a 54-hole [tournament], Inexperienced course, Blue course, Pink course.
“This was the second day and I used to be doing fairly nicely however struggling on the inexperienced, which was commonplace for me at Frilford. I had like a four-foot birdie putt and missed it and the crimson steam… The crimson mist descended and I gave it a type of,” he continued, earlier than pretending to slam his putter into the bottom.
Pepperell expressed remorse for the non-public nature of his observations after studying of DeChambeau’s response. Relating to the ‘Twit’ comment, he added: “That was pointless and one thing I should not have stated.”
This 12 months’s Sunningdale Foursomes commenced on Tuesday and continues till Friday. The 2025 version was claimed by David Corben and Harry Crockett, who narrowly defeated Monty Holcombe and Oscar Lent for the title.
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