Former world snooker champion ‘addicted’ to new sport thanks to advice from Chelsea legend John Terry

NEIL ROBERTSON is swapping his cue for a putter – acknowledgment to tips from John Terry.

Australia’s satellite snooker champion has discovered a newfound emotion for golf during a twelvemonth successful which his fortunes person dipped connected the baize.

Robbo, 42, dropped retired of the world’s apical 16 and failed to suffice for this year’s World Championship successful Sheffield for the archetypal clip successful 20 years.

The Chelsea instrumentality is bully pals with legendary Blues skipper Terry, 43, and has been getting proposal connected his caller pastime.

Robertson said: “I spell to the snooker nine and practise. Then I spell to the range and deed immoderate balls oregon get immoderate lessons.

“I was talking to John Terry astir it and helium ever felt it was a large happening to bash to guarantee you don’t instrumentality your enactment home.

“He was saying, conscionable enactment your AirPods successful and practise putting for fractional an hour.

“It’s a nice mode to chill retired and upwind down from the stresses of the crippled earlier you spell home.

“My lad Alexander has shown a immense involvement successful it arsenic well, truthful I’ve got him a acceptable of clubs and we play together. We’re learning the crippled together. It’s truly exciting.”

Robertson faces Matthew Stevens connected Thursday evening successful the last circular of qualifying for the UK Championship, an lawsuit helium won successful December 2020 erstwhile it was held down closed doors owed to Covid.

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The gully for the past 32 - which involves each the seeds - takes spot astatine 4pm and should Robbo qualify, helium could look idiosyncratic similar Ronnie O'Sullivan, Judd Trump oregon satellite No1 Kyren Wilson.

Away from the baize, helium wants to transcript snooker pro Shaun Murphy who made a tenable modulation to the fairways.

Murphy, who claims helium deed a hole-in-one, had a spell astatine qualifying for The Open Championship successful 2019 but fell rather a agelong mode short.

Robertson, the 2010 Crucible King, said: “I haven’t been capable to play 18 holes yet and enactment successful an existent handicap.

“What I bash a batch of the clip is spell to the range, enactment connected each things of my game.

“But I’m taking it truly seriously. My manager and I are structuring things truthful that it isn’t going to beryllium a hindrance oregon impact my snooker.

“I deliberation I’ll get down to azygous figures successful perfectly nary time. I wouldn’t beryllium a cardinal miles disconnected it presently present really.

“I person conscionable taken to it. We bash video investigation and my manager says: ‘When radical spot you play, they volition not judge you person lone conscionable started playing.’

“All sports that I play I instrumentality to them precise quickly. Natural hand-eye coordination I suppose.

“I’m addicted to each the YouTube play shows. Previously, unless Phil Mickelson oregon Tiger Woods were successful contention for a Major, I wouldn’t power play connected the TV.

“Now if it’s on, I’ll beryllium watching each the Majors. I person friends who would ever plug themselves successful from the Thursday to the Sunday.

“I’d think, ‘Oh god, however tin you bash that?’ Well, I tin spot wherefore now.

“I person wholly ditched the video games for golf. Surprisingly my woman Mille has fixed it the go-ahead. She’s successful afloat enactment of my play addiction.”