Chris Wood
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784 appearances
7 recordings
4 series
first heard Sep 2017
last heard 8 Sep
Chris Wood’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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From the moment I can remember my wife dropping me to the airport and you're riddled with it because you know you're going to the event.
You know what, like you say, you know what's coming.
And that brings fear into it as well, fear and anxiety.
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
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