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Murray will be taking part in the £5m tournament
Sue Barker returned to Wimbledon in 2024 to interview Andy Murray as he played there for the last time(Image: Getty)
Tennis star Andy Murray will make a sporting return next month when he competes in a prestigious golf tournament.
Murray announced on Tuesday he will be playing at The Alfred Dunhill Links Championship amongst a star-studded field that includes the likes of Tommy Fleetwood, Brooks Koepka, Robert MacIntyre, Tyrrell Hatton, Matt Fitzpatrick and Bubba Watson.
The DP World Tour pro-am event is one of the most popular at St Andrews, with some of golf’s biggest names joined by A-list stars.
Murray has taken up the sport seriously since retiring from tennis last year and is believed to have got his handicap down to just one.
He said: “I’m really looking forward to this.
“It’s very special to be able to play in a full blown professional event, and for a Scot like me to be able to do it in Scotland at such a unique location makes it even more exceptional.
“In many ways the Old Course at St Andrews is very like Centre Court at Wimbledon. They both have the same historic feel and atmosphere that just doesn’t exist in many sporting venues around the world.
“It will be a pleasure to be able to savour that.”
Andy Murray has been honing his golf game since tennis retirement(Image: Getty Images)
The event is the same one in which Gareth Bale has competed over the past two years, with the Welshman yet to be confirmed for this year. His handicap is even better than Murray’s – believed to be at 0.1.
There is a prize pot of $5million across the weekend, with two separate competitions – an individual tournament for the pros and the Team Championship, in which the professionals are paired with talented and big name amateur golfers.
It will be held on October 2 to October 5.
The former British number one walked away from the game last summer having cemented his status as one of the greatest players of his generation, winning 46 titles, including two Wimbledons and one US Open, as well as three Olympic medals. However, he certainly hasn’t started taking it easy in retirement, having got stuck in to several exciting new ventures and made some big announcements since ending his playing career.
Those new ventures have included teaming up with long-time rival Novak Djokovic to work as the Serbian star’s coach for the Australian Open, with that move taking the tennis world by surprise last year. However, while they reached the semi-finals Down Under together, their shock partnership came to an end after just six months.
In May, it was confirmed that the 38-year-old had taken on a new job as a venture capitalist and become an associate partner at Redrice Ventures in London, who he previously worked alongside as part of a co-investment in sports wear company Castore in 2018.
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