Surrey’s James Morrison is able to put within the onerous work wanted to get his profession again on observe after being labelled “an fool” by a fellow participant for pondering giving up.
Morrison misplaced his full enjoying rights on the finish of final season and did not regain them on the Qualifying College, and has missed the minimize in 4 of his 5 occasions since.
Within the midst of that spell the two-time DP World Tour winner swapped his golf equipment for a microphone to work as an on-course analyst through the Bahrain Championship, an expertise he loved and wish to repeat.
Nonetheless, Morrison can be eager to embrace his restricted possibilities to compete on the principle circuit this season, beginning with this week’s Magical Kenya Open.
“I’m solely 40, nonetheless match and wholesome,” Morrison advised the DP World Tour web site.
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“I performed a follow spherical with Sean Crocker right here in Kenya. He’s like, ‘I can’t consider you’re solely 40 and speaking about doing commentary and giving up. Are you some type of fool?’.
“That type of stuff has hit house with me a bit of bit. I’ve taken a breath for the previous few months, nevertheless it’s now time to get my head down and try to succeed once more.
“One factor I look again at with my profession is I by no means loved the highs sufficient and the lows have been at all times too low.
“I believe each golfer takes without any consideration good golf, successful occasions, ending prime 5, enjoying the majors and being prime 100 on the planet, no matter else. You suppose that’s what your divine proper is, nevertheless it’s not.
“I by no means actually sucked within the good occasions as a lot as I actually wished to. I need to have these emotions once more of successful and excelling and doing effectively and making my son and spouse proud.
“I’m solely going to get 10-12 DP World Tour occasions this season, most likely, possibly a bit greater than that, so I’ve bought to try to take all the things I can with each arms.
“However that’s really fairly thrilling for a mindset perspective as a result of you may’t waste time and simply have to present it all the things and see what occurs.”
