Ahead of Andy Murray's final ever tennis appearance ahead of the upcoming Olympic Games, one golf legend offered a fascinating anecdote about the Dunblane native
Golf legend Paul Lawrie has offered a fascinating insight into Andy Murray 's competitive edge ahead of the tennis legend's retirement at the Olympics.
His competitive edge and unyielding determination are key tenets of what has made him such an enduring figure over the course of his career. Just ask Lawrie. The Ryder Cup hero played alongside Murray at the 2022 Battle of the Brits tennis tournament. While the competition was more of a bit of fun rather than a Grand Slam, Murray still took it seriously, as the former Open winner later attested.
"It was funny and I am not going to swear, but the first game I did with him on his own I was just sitting on the bit and it was the first few games and he was playing against somebody and he came back. I am sitting there as a golfer saying do I speak to him or do I not. Do I say something? He is quite a motivated kind of guy and I am not like that. I am not a ra-ra type of boy, I am not a fist pumper.
"And I thoroughly enjoyed it. He had the full team up. He had physios, dieticians. Five or six people with him. A full 40 minutes warm up. No other player did that. They were all sitting around having a coffee. He is in there giving it laldy for something that doesn’t really matter."
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