"Trying not to let the mistakes get to me": Andy Murray navigating golf challenge on tennis retirement

Andy Murray is embarking on a new hobby in retirement as he has been playing golf in a new sporting love for the former World No.1.

The two-time Olympic gold medalist has no intention of stopping physical activity and to the contrary as he has signalled his intention to take up golf after hanging up his racquet.

After receiving his first lesson this month, he shared clips of himself playing. Albeit he asked for any tips that can be given and in a Sky Sports feature, he said it is very much the opposite to tennis in many ways.

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“In a match we play 100, 150 points, and they all matter,” he said.

"You can sort of compound your errors. In golf, when I started playing…… it’s so easy hitting the rough and then I’m thinking right, par four, I need to try and make it to the green and just end up duffing it like 20 yards in front of me.

“And in tennis you can’t afford to do that either. You can’t afford to let your mistakes bleed into like three, four, five points in a row. I hope that’s something I’m doing ok on he golf course just because of my experience of tennis - trying not to let the mistakes get to me too much. But I am enjoying it.”

But while he is now retired, he has stated similar to before in that he is loving life off court and has now desire to return.

“So far it’s been a lot of this, a lot of golf,” he said, when asked how retirement was treating him. “And then just looking after the kids and being at home. We do so much travelling as tennis players, I’ve been loving being at home and not having any real responsibilities, and spending time with the kids.”

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