{"id":207320,"date":"2025-10-12T07:23:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T07:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/207320\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T07:23:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T07:23:12","slug":"i-played-golf-with-andy-murray-he-showed-true-colours-with-comment-golf-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/207320\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I played golf with Andy Murray \u2013\u00a0he showed true colours with comment’ | Golf | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"

English golfer Eddie Pepperell revealed just how genuine Andy Murray<\/a> is after the pair teamed up at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship. The tennis<\/a> icon made his debut at the golf<\/a> event this past weekend as he competed in the Amateur Team Championship event, where 168 professional golfers are paired up with an amateur.<\/p>\n

The three-time Grand Slam champion participated alongside Pepperell, eventually finishing on a total of -23 after three rounds of the course<\/a>. Murray, 38, came in for widespread praise for his performance in the pro-am competition with his putting ability, in particular, impressing viewers.<\/p>\n

Pepperell, who has won two events on the European Tour, spoke of his experience playing alongside the two-time Olympic gold medallist during his appearance on theChipping Forecast<\/a> podcast, revealing how a five-word comment from Murray showed just how authentic the Scotsman really is.<\/p>\n

“I’ve never been particularly high-octane on a Thursday or Friday, even a Sunday at times,” the 34-year-old said. “Andy did say something really nice, we came off at Kingsbarns and I was bit disappointed with my two-under-par and he said, ‘How did you think that went’, and I said, ‘Oh it was okay, some good, some bad’, and he just looked at me and said, ‘I thought you were awesome’.<\/p>\n

“It was a really genuine, sweet moment and he was a great partner honestly, it was an unusual partner because it actually felt like I was partnering up with a professional. His level of focus and concentration and his standard too, he was very good.”<\/p>\n

Murray has competed in several pro-am golf events since retiring from tennis last August and previously admitted his lofty goal of qualifying for The Open Championship<\/a> in 2027. He did, however, admit that achieving such a goal can only become possible if he improves his skills on the links enough by then.<\/p>\n

Speaking to The Times<\/a> last month, he said: “A couple of my friends who are very good golfers have done it,” he said. “If I can improve enough, I think it would be a fun thing to do. “I played in the club championships at Beaverbrook a few months ago and I loved it.<\/p>\n

“It was the most fun I\u2019d had playing golf<\/a> and the more I play, the less I enjoy just playing socially. I don\u2019t know if I\u2019ll be capable of entering, but I want to try and play in a few more events. I\u2019ve been pretty amazed at how willing the pros are to help because spending five hours with people who are hacking it around probably isn\u2019t that enjoyable.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"English golfer Eddie Pepperell revealed just how genuine Andy Murray is after the pair teamed up at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[3581,64,63,117289,755,9921,85,6414],"class_list":["post-207320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-andy-murray","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-eddie-pepperell","tag-golf","tag-golf-section","tag-sports","tag-tennis-section"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}