A tale of two golfers
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“No golfer is dying or coughing out their lungs down at the fairways or on the rough, just maybe disappointed that they can’t watch that little white ball go into the hole,” Thompson said.
He seems to have a different take on the Covid-19 pandemic.
“This is a pandemic of fear; it’s something that started outside our borders, and I laud the Government for taking the responsible actions to ensure that they protect their people — golfers or otherwise.
“The experience that most golfers have gone through is probably a sense of appreciation of how good we have it, and how thankful we are to walk in freedom and not house arrest. “However, while we respect that certain measures had to be taken to ensure that we stay safe, when you put a good healthy golfer on lockdown, that is unfair. “Most of our golfers have had dark days because they make their living playing golf and dark days are for our corporates that cannot put on golf days.
“It was hard for them to put on these golf days before the pandemic, and it will be harder for them to do so afterwards,” Thompson said.
Cairns, however, has a different take on things.
For the 36-year-old, the last couple of months have been mostly about trying to make the best out of a bad situation.
Cairns — who joined the Sunshine Tour in 2007 and has two wins on tour — was not having the best of runs prior to Covid19 and the lockdown afforded him time to reflect and improve.
“I wasn’t playing too great prior to the Covid-19 outbreak as I struggled a bit through the summer stretch of the Sunshine Tour, but I have been putting in a lot of work during the lockdown.
“I have been working on my fitness, doing a lot of running and cardio, stretching and have a hitting net set up at my house that I have been using to work on my swing and flight scope.
“Coming through lockdown, the results are starting to show as I am now starting to play better golf.
“I have been shooting some low scores at Royal Harare, actually made 10 birdies in a round during my last ses
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