Get Kayo now <\/a>><\/p>\n\u201cI feel like the season gave me a lot of positive as well as negatives and from what I saw from my stats \u2026 I just thought I need to improve on something different and the first step I took was taking a bit of time off golf.<\/p>\n
\u201cI started working at a pro shop just to see what it was like and fill in the hours that I had to do and it was interesting. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt gets pretty hectic around there and on the Saturdays that I worked, it gets pretty full on, you know, with the double tee times and people walking in and out of the shop.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cI mean, it definitely makes me want to just keep playing golf and not work in a shop.<\/p>\n
\u201cI guess that was a really good confidence booster.\u201d<\/p>\n
That confidence from the time off, and the hopes to avoid the pro shop life that has claimed so many other talented players in the past, were on display early in his season return at Kalgoorlie earlier this month. <\/p>\n
Guan made the cut before a different injury relegated him to last money.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we\u2019re getting there. I had a bit of an injury during the WA PGA after the second round,\u201d Guan said of his right arm.<\/p>\n
\u201cCould barely hit the ball from the third and fourth round, but we slowly get back into it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Making just one bogey in round two of last week\u2019s WA Open to miss the cut by one shot, Guan\u2019s sunny disposition remains despite all his setbacks, and the required learning of playing with a literal new outlook.<\/p>\n
Swinging the golf club seemingly exactly the same as before his incident, Guan\u2019s primary issues come closer to the green.<\/p>\n
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The lack of vision in his left eye drastically affects his depth perception, which causes major problems in bunkers, and from uneven lies. <\/p>\n
Shots from the sand \u2014 where he is trying to strike the bunker before the ball \u2014 prove particularly difficult. <\/p>\n
Guan has consulting specialists on depth perception in his return to combat the issue, but otherwise, he now has a fairly simple approach \u2026 just don\u2019t hit it in the bunkers.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll try to be, obviously, but I think it\u2019s slowly getting there,\u201d Guan said of trying to become the best bunker player with sight from only one eye.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot to jinx myself, but I haven\u2019t really bladed any bunker shots or hit anything poorly. I\u2019ve been getting the mindset of just hitting on the green and then trying to get as close to the hole as I can.<\/p>\n
\u201cMainly it\u2019s just to play a bit smarter. Off the tee, if I use the right clubs to have shorter distances in, then I\u2019ll have less bunker play.\u201d<\/p>\n
Beyond golf and his studies, Guan is also continuing his passion to maybe become one of the world\u2019s best video gamers having spent plenty of time on screens following his accident. <\/p>\n
\u201cOther than golf, that\u2019s probably what I do,\u201d he said of his two-year obsession with video game Marvel Rivals. <\/p>\n
\u201cI love gaming and I don\u2019t think anything can change that.\u201d<\/p>\n
The other unchangeable aspect of Guan\u2019s new reality has been his amazement at the levels of support, and breadth of far flung messages, since his career and life was changed in unimaginable ways.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been reached out to by so many people, even those who have gone through similar incidents, and they\u2019ve actually gave me so many good pieces of advice that I can take into different events and slowly build my game to the better,\u201d Guan said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that with the golfing community and so much help behind me, it\u2019s just, makes me want to keep playing and helps me just be the best person I can be.\u201d<\/p>\n
Guan opened his account at Players Series South Australia with a first round of 2-under 68 to sit four back of early leader Ben Eccles.<\/p>\n
Guan managed to avoid the bunkers at Willunga on day one, and appeared comfortable back on the professional golfing stage \u2014 albeit one offering 13 per cent of the winner\u2019s cheque at the 2024 Procore Championship in total prizemoney. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Standing at a pro shop counter in Sydney\u2019s southern suburbs, collecting $48 per player on a busy Saturday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":937445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-937444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937444","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=937444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/937445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Jeffrey Guan in round one of the Players Series: South Australia on Thursday at Willunga Golf Course.Source: Supplied<\/p>\n