A week or two back, we told you how former English Premier League superstar Gareth Bale – Wales talisman and certified golf sicko – had been expressly banned from playing golf while representing the Welsh national team at the World cup in Qatar.
“There’s no golf. We’re out there to do a job,” said manager Rob Page. “We won’t have enough time. Every four days there is a game. It’s relentless.”
That was the end of Bale’s winter golf sabbatical … or so we thought.
According to the Daily Express, Bale has found a loophole, installing a golf simulator at the team hotel so he and the boys can still get a couple hacks in without needing to commit to a full afternoon round. Genius. Pure diabolical genius.
“We’ve just been in the swimming pool, playing table tennis, pool and golf,” Cardiff striker Mark Harris told the Express.
“Team spirit is great anyway but games like that help you. Gareth’s very good at the golf. I think most of us have had a swing and we had a go after training as we had some spare time.”
Hopefully the simulator downtime will help Bale’s Wales stay loose as they try to qualify for the knockout round in their first World Cup appearance since 1958. As the old saying going, all work and no play makes Jack Gareth a dull boy.
