\u201cIt was amazing. One of the highlights of my career for sure,\u201d Bjerregaard recalls. \u201cTo even play against him was just a dream come true.\u00a0Growing up,\u00a0he was my idol.\u00a0I mean, a lot of us really looked up to him\u00a0for\u00a0what he was able to do on the golf course.\u00a0So,\u00a0to\u00a0then\u00a0meet\u00a0him and\u00a0play\u00a0against him was unbelievable… We just had an incredible match, and I was\u00a0very fortunate\u00a0to come out on top.\u00a0Definitely something\u00a0I look back on very\u00a0fondly.\u201d<\/p>\n
Looking back on that breakout period, Bjerregaard reflects: \u201cBack in 2018 we had our daughter and something there just clicked. It took my mind off the golf a little bit, and then for some reason I started playing better for it. I had a really good team and set up, I was just confident, started playing better, and then confidence just took over. Had a good run there for a couple years.\u201d<\/p>\n
After his impressive run, Bjerregaard fell out of form and lost confidence, with injuries compounding his struggles. He had a back issue in early 2024, and the poor form and health issues took a toll on his desire to continue playing professional golf.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese last few years have definitely been tough on myself and the family,\u201d he admits. \u201cMy relationship with the game is probably a little bit different now than it used to be.\u201d<\/p>\n
He entered the LIV Promotions event two years ago in Abu Dhabi but fell short. This time around, the appeal was too strong to ignore.<\/p>\n
\u201cI’ve played the promotions event there and it was a great setup, great event,\u201d he says. \u201cWhen I saw it come up again this year I thought, why not? It’s a great opportunity, and it would be amazing to make it onto LIV, that’s for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n
That appeal runs deeper than just another chance to compete.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think LIV offers a very different and unique relationship to golf and something a bit fresh and different,\u201d Bjerregaard explains. \u201cThese last three or four years, not having played very well and struggled, it’s been a lot of travel and it’s been a lot of feeling alone in hotel rooms and stuff, and LIV seems to be the opposite of that. So that seems very appealing to me.\u201d<\/p>\n
The format of LIV Golf Promotions event, where scores reset and players must go low every day to advance, also plays to his strengths.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it’s a great way of doing a qualifier like this,\u201d he says. \u201cI quite like that you have to be on every day… It definitely suits my game. That’s kind of how I’ve played these last few years. it’s been very much either I’m on or it’s been pretty poor. So hopefully I can have a few good days here.\u201d<\/p>\n
Among former Ryder Cup players and proven tour winners in a competitive field, Bjerregaard’s pedigree makes him a compelling dark horse. Can that magic return to secure one of LIV Golf’s golden tickets? Golf thrives on comeback stories. This week, Bjerregaard will aim to author one of his own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt was amazing. One of the highlights of my career for sure,\u201d Bjerregaard recalls. \u201cTo even play against…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-393054","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}