WOOD OPENS UP ON HIS PERSONAL STRUGGLES – Golf News

A 3rd DP World Tour title within the 2016 BMW PGA Championship secured Wooden’s place on Europe’s Ryder Cup workforce and he gained one level from two matches at Hazeltine, dropping his singles to Dustin Johnson on the 18th.

The 36-year-old from Bristol has suffered from accidents and a lack of kind in recent times and performed simply two Problem Tour occasions in 2023 earlier than taking a full yr out.

STRUGGLING FOR A FEW YEARS

“I used to be recognized with continual nervousness and burnout,” the world #1,535 mentioned forward of contesting back-to-back occasions in Thailand, a part of the Asian Tour’s Worldwide Collection.

“I’ve been by way of a extremely garbage time over the previous few years the place my golf has actually impacted me mentally.

“I’ve really been like that since 2019 however it took possibly 4 years earlier than I did something about it. It took actually bottoming out to cease. I took a complete yr off and this yr has been about attempting to get a card in my hand once more.

“It’s nonetheless very, very laborious, however I’m nonetheless doing it as a result of I wish to and since I really feel like I’ve bought a lot extra to supply. I do know the standard of pictures I’ve bought and I can hit, in order that’s why I’m nonetheless in it.

“Ten years in the past, in case you had mentioned to me you can be on this place mentally, I used to be so unaware of what these phrases meant, and it takes going by way of one thing like this, or somebody very near you going by way of it, earlier than you possibly can admire what these struggles are literally like.

“It’s laborious as a result of I nonetheless imagine I’ve even bought a Ryder Cup in me, I really imagine that, and I wouldn’t nonetheless be placing myself in positions the place I really feel anxious and uncovered until I felt prefer it’s going to be price it.”