Chris Wood

And the problem with that is when you're also struggling technically and

it's almost impossible to change your movement because anxiety overrides it all.

It won't allow you to move in a way that, um, I suppose better for you really, because it takes charge and, um,

you end up hitting shots that really probably aren't so much to do with the technical element.

It's the anxiety that's causing it.

And I, yeah, I was like you, I mean, three years after I won the PGA at Wentworth, I didn't have a driver in the bag in 2019.

And for me, that's quite scary, really, because three years previously, I'd won the event.

Three years later, I've not even got a driver in the back.

And as you know, not having a driver around Wentworth, you're giving up a lot, aren't you?

So, yeah, so...

really, I suppose I didn't really understand what it was I was feeling until 2021 or two, when I spoke to our big friendly giant of a doctor, Tim Swan.

And, um,

One of the big things I found helpful was, um,

through those years, trauma is a big word and everyone has their own version of it.

But the trauma I suffered was on a golf course.

And one of the things I tried to do was remove any more trauma because I'd been through enough.

And that might have been being on a golf course at an event and

I could have felt like this is too much and having the bollocks basically to walk off and say, no more trauma.

And I text another player who's been very good, who's had a good career around that time and said he had a difficult period in his career.

And I asked him, did he ever think of stepping away and taking a break?