Surrey’s James Morrison is able to put within the exhausting 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 didn’t regain them on the Qualifying College, and has missed the reduce 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 throughout the Bahrain Championship, an expertise he loved and want 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 dwelling with me somewhat bit. I’ve taken a breath for the previous couple of months, but it surely’s now time to get my head down and attempt 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 had been all the time too low.
“I believe each golfer takes as a right good golf, profitable 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, but it surely’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 profitable and excelling and doing properly and making my son and spouse proud.
“I’m solely going to get 10-12 DP World Tour occasions this season, in all probability, possibly a bit greater than that, so I’ve acquired to attempt to take all the pieces I can with each arms.
“However that’s truly fairly thrilling for a mindset perspective as a result of you’ll be able to’t waste time and simply have to offer it all the pieces and see what occurs.”
