![]() “So that freshened me up a little and I’m sure there are a few guys in the same boat.” “I can only speak from my own experience, but last year I felt like I was really wasting time and didn’t have a means or a purpose each day, so I had to go and find 15-20 hours of work to use my mind, but also just to have a purpose and get up and do something. “Bar a few tournaments, it’s been going on for 18 months, and as hard as this is to say, some guys probably do lose a bit of interest and look for things to fill in time and also keep earning money to pay their bills. ![]() ![]() “Some might even have chosen not to put the work in or felt like putting the work in because there was so much unknown. “I think there are a lot of unknowns for almost all the players – confidence and trust in how they’re playing and probably even in execution given they’ve been in isolation or lockdown,” McCardle said. The South Australian, who also suffered a nasty hand injury this year, said having “no purpose” during the pandemic almost forced him in a different direction. RIGHT: After playing much of the year in Europe, 2021 Golf Challenge NSW Open winner Bryden Macpherson is in the field at the Murray Open. One extremely talented player who, for various reasons, was forced to rethink his golf in the past 18 months is Max McCardle. So while the lure of direct entry to the Golf Challenge NSW Open is on the line in this first of six regional qualifiers, there’s seemingly so much more at stake as Australia’s emerging – and some veteran – pros try to urgently assess their very futures in the sport. The course is in spectacular condition, drawing high praise from a genuinely talented field, many of whom have travelled way off their normal paths to play a first tournament in months. Extraordinary stories abound and, to borrow from Tom Hanks’ famous movie character, the outcome will be “like a box of chocolates” because surely nobody can predict what we’re going to see at Murray Downs. ![]()
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