Andy Murray targets £12.5m prize fund as Brit confirms new career ambition
Murray has even updated his X profile bio to read: “I played tennis. I now play golf”, and is set to compete in the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship next month, going against top competition. Speaking on The Chipping Forecast podcast recently, Murray revealed his ambition to compete in The Open, which boasts a whopping £12.5million prize fund. He said: “I have been playing a lot, practicing a lot, but I want to start playing more competitions and handing in more cards. I have played quite a lot of social golf recently and I don’t think it’s necessarily the best way to get better.
“I love the competitive side of playing in competitions and that’s why I want to try and do that more.When asked if he would like to take on the challenge of The Open, he responded: “Yeah, I mean, I would like to do that.
“A couple of my friends have done it, they’re into golf. I have played quite a lot of social golf recently and I don’t think it’s necessarily the best way to get better. I love the competitive side of playing in competitions and that’s why I want to try and do that more.”
When asked if he would like to take on the challenge of The Open, he said: “I think it’s quite interesting when other athletes do that, because I’m aware, because I was an athlete myself, that I’m a terrible golfer relative to a professional golfer.
“You know, lots of amateur sports fans often feel like, ‘Oh, well, you know, if you played more golf, or if I played more golf, I could be a professional golfer’ or whatever. And I just feel like I understand that a scratch golfer is a good golfer, but the difference between a scratch golfer and a professional is huge.
