{"id":30382,"date":"2025-07-29T05:53:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T05:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/30382\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T05:53:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T05:53:12","slug":"im-100-per-cent-sure-i-couldnt-make-it-as-a-professional-golfer-gareth-bale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/30382\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m 100 per cent sure I couldn\u2019t make it as a professional golfer \u2013 Gareth Bale"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Gareth Bale celebrates wildly after he scored a hole in one (Credit: Gareth Bale Instagram)<\/p>\n

Gareth Bale admitted he was \u201c100 per cent sure\u201d that he could not become a professional golfer.<\/p>\n

The former Real Madrid and Wales star is well known for his love of golf and has cut his handicap from \u201cthree or four\u201d to just 0.1 since retiring from football in January 2023.<\/p>\n

That has led to suggestions that Bale \u2013 who has played on the PGA Tour at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-am where footage of him making a brilliant chip from a cart path went viral \u2013 could try and make it as a professional golfer, despite having turned 36 earlier this month.<\/p>\n

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\u2018Severe pressure\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m fully, 100 per cent sure, I can not make it professionally,\u201d Bale told BBC Wales ahead of this week\u2019s AIG Women\u2019s Open at Royal Porthcawl.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you are in golf and you see professional golfers play, compared to even your best stuff, it is nowhere near.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I\u2019ve played with those players and watched them, you really appreciate how good they actually are.<\/p>\n

\u201cNever mind just playing with your friends, they are doing it under the most severe pressure, in tournament conditions, in hard weather.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo there won\u2019t be any professional (golf) for me.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I love the game. I love watching it, I love growing it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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