Welsh football legend Gareth Bale started the second act of his life as a golfer. It’s been 23 days since you took off your soccer shoes, how was it to play a shot that wasn’t a shot?
This is reporter Oh Seon-min.
[Reporter]
[PGA Tour AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am｜California, USA]
A ball slightly rolled up onto the green goes round the hole cup and goes into it,
[Local Broadcast: Everyone knows that this is difficult. It’s very easy to hit.] The
ball that bounced twice suddenly turned and landed accurately in the hole cup.
From the first day of the competition, where professional players and amateur celebrities paired up, exquisite scenes were poured out, but this player was the most eye-catching.
[Gareth Bale/Former soccer player: {Don’t you miss Real Madrid?} A little bit. Not a lot.]
Bale, who finally became confident in the stinging eyes that golf took precedence over soccer, poured out sharp shots as if to regret it.
He escaped from the bunker in the 1st hole and caught par, and in the 2nd hole, he made a mistake by dropping the ball on the edge of the cart road, but he saved it with a clever approach shot and received applause.