Andy Murray wins first trophy in new sport just months after retiring from tennis

Andy Murray has thrown himself into playing play since retiring from nonrecreational tennis successful August - and the 37-year-old has present won his archetypal portion of silverware

Andy Murray has claimed the archetypal portion of silverware since swapping the tennis racquet for play clubs.

Murray has been engaged learning a caller athletics since retiring from tennis aft helium and Dan Evans were beaten successful the men’s doubles astatine the Olympic Games connected August 1. His bio connected Twitter used to simply read : “I play tennis”. Now it reads: “I played tennis. I present play golf.”

The 37-year-old has transferred his competitory quality from the tennis tribunal to the play people and is aiming to get his handicap down to scratch wrong a fewer years. He played alongside chap celebrities successful the Pro-Am lawsuit astatine BMW PGA Championship astatine Wentworth past month, wherever helium impressed chap Scot Bob MacIntyre, and present has a archetypal trophy successful sport.

On Tuesday, helium was astatine Hanbury Manor Golf Club successful Hertfordshire to play successful the inaugural BTJA Mike Dickson Golf Day. The event, tally by the British Tennis Journalists' Association, has been started successful representation of erstwhile Daily Mail writer Mike Dickson, who sadly passed distant successful January aged 59.

The station by the BTJA connected Twitter revealed that Murray had been crowned champion, which is nary astonishment fixed his prowess disconnected the tee already. Murray has a handicap of 7 astatine the moment, but is having regular lessons and MacIntyre thinks he’ll amended rapidly.

“For idiosyncratic that’s not truly played that much, I thought helium was good,” world No.16 MacIntyre said astatine Wentworth past month. “I was precise impressed with his game. He’ll beryllium scratch successful nary time.”

For now, Murray is conscionable enjoying a antithetic challenge. “It’s a antithetic benignant of nerves, due to the fact that you are comfy successful the benignant of tennis environment. I’m not reasoning I’m going to locomotion retired connected the tennis tribunal and hide however to deed the ball,” helium said astatine Wentworth.

“Whereas here, there’s radical lasting 5 metres distant from wherever I’m driving, and I’m like, I’m useless astatine this game. You conscionable privation to effort and support the shot successful play and don’t messiness up excessively much.”

He added: “I’m evidently getting to practise a batch much than the mean person. I evidently played a spot erstwhile I was younger, and if I tin get the close benignant of lessons and practise the close things, past yeah, I’ve got a accidental of doing that.

“The lessons person made a immense difference. That’s been the astir important happening for me. I utilized to spell down to the scope and deed tons of balls, and I could deed a fewer bully ones. But if you person a cardinal flaw successful your plaything oregon what you’re doing, it doesn’t substance however galore balls you deed connected the range. So, getting lessons and practising those things is helping.”