FANS are sure they know what’s next for golf-loving Gareth Bale after he announced he has retired from football.
Bale took to socila media today to reveal he has hung up his boots.
The five-time Champions League winner is a long-time fan of golf, and fans have all been making the same joke.
One wrote: “Odds on Gareth bale winning a LIV golf tournament in the next five years?”
A second commented: “Waiting for LIV Golf to pay some crazy money to Gareth Bale to play a few rounds of golf.”
A third said: “I give it six weeks before Gareth Bale’s announced to be playing in that dodgy Saudi golf league.”
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A fourth added: “Fair play to Gareth Bale he had a very good career now time for him to play a lot more golf.”
A fifth joked: “Gareth Bale will probably win a professional golf tournament before Tottenham Hotspur win a trophy.”
The Welshman is a massive golf fan, having a mini course built in his back garden featuring iconic holes from the world’s greatest courses.
And former Madrid team-mate Thibaut Courtois ven coined him “The Golfer”.
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Bale also built an indoor golf course in Cardiff. It is called Par 59 and has three nine-hole courses, a bar and a restaurant.
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The 33-year-old even opened a second venue in Bristol at the end of last year.
He has also been backed by Betfair to turn his attention to turning professional in the sport, with odds set at 5/2.
Bale had also given his thumbs-up to the ‘Wales, Golf, Madrid’ song that was invented by fans.
The song was a dig at Bale’s critics in Spain, who claim the forward is more interested in Wales and pacing the fairways than playing for the La Liga giants.
After Wales qualified for the 2020 Euros, the Wales team also brought out a flag which paid tribute to the song.
It had often been claimed that during the end of his time at Real Madrid that when he was not playing football he was instead at the gold course.
He did defend himself by saying that was not the case.
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Bale said: “I’ve been available for quite a lot of the games in Spain. Sometimes you just don’t get picked so people assume that you’re injured.
“There is a perception I play a lot of golf which I don’t, or people think I’m injured a lot when I’m actually not.”
Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
