‘What am I going to do, go and get an office job?’ Meet Richard Bland

In 2018, at 45 and soon to be 46, he had lost his European Tour playing privileges, only to become the oldest player to graduate from the lower-level Challenge Tour and grind his way back.

So it was just, right, OK, I’ve always been someone that can get my head down and work hard, and I always knew I had the game to compete on the European Tour at the highest level.

But I just think every kind of sportsman, sportswoman, they have that never-die or that never-quit attitude, no matter whether it’s golf or it’s tennis or it’s boxing, whatever it is.

He’d win tournament 478, the Betfred British Masters, becoming the oldest first-time winner on the European Tour.

I think they might think something different if they did play it for a living, but yeah, I’ve always been — thought of it as I’m very fortunate that I can travel the world and play some of the best courses in the world and some of the biggest tournaments in the world.

Hopefully if I can keep playing the way I’m playing, maybe next year I might be able to experience it, or the year after that would be unbelievable.

“You know, in the qualifyings that we have in Europe, I think I’ve lost in a playoff four times for this, for a U.S.

Bland, after his victory at the British Masters, was escorted to a video booth, where his family was on the other side of the camera to congratulate him.

During the first round of the Open, Bland wore a white hat adorned with a bird logo in black.

“This is just my golf club back home, the Wisley,” he said.

“Yeah, well, we’re in a sport where you’re going to miss some cuts, so yeah, I try not to take the Twitter sort of too seriously,” Bland said.

“I’ve always been a firm believer of the way I want to swing a golf club, you get the coach that kind of teaches that.

As I said after my win to Sky, if I had another 20 years of a career, he would be my coach for 20 years.

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