Lucas Bjerregaard hits a shot on Friday on the seventh gap on the Belfry.
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Query one was a layup.
“Seven birdies and an eagle immediately. What goes by your thoughts when it’s going so nicely?”
“Yeah, I used to be within the zone and issues simply got here a bit bit simpler immediately,” Lucas Bjerregaard mentioned, “and yeah, hoping for extra days like that.”
Query two then dug a bit deeper.
Bjerregaard was speaking in what’s been dubbed the Inexperienced Room, a platform concocted by the DP World Tour, and its format’s unfussy: only a computerized-sounding questioner and a yellow chair on which to chill out and reply. Different execs have jumped in. Friday, after the British Masters’ second spherical, Bjerregaard made for a logical selection.
He’d simply shot a scorching six-under 66 on the Belfry, and he was 4 again of the lead coming into the weekend. But it surely’s been some time for the reason that 33-year-old Dane’s been in such a spot. In 2017, he received the Portugal Masters. A yr later, he received the Alfred Dunhill Hyperlinks Championship. In 2019 and 2020, he hopped throughout the pond for PGA Tour occasions. However golf is fickle. This yr, Bjerregaard’s been taking part in occasions on the Problem Tour, the circuit just under the DP World Tour.
And the Inexperienced Room’s voice was interested by all of it.
What adopted was uncooked honesty. Under is the interview. Under that’s the backwards and forwards, with the questions written in italics, and a few further ideas.
“You’ve been on the Problem Tour this yr, however have performed so nicely these previous two weeks. How do you clarify that?”
“I don’t know, I believe it’s been coming a bit bit,” Bjerregaard mentioned. “I had three prime 10s on the Problem Tour earlier than final week, so recreation’s clearly been trending a bit. Earlier than that, there wasn’t a lot pointing within the path of any good outcome. I believe I used to be possibly on the verge of giving up the sport a bit bit, and I believe that’s helped me to only go on the market and play a bit extra carefree and never fear an excessive amount of about it.”
He’s proper concerning the prime 10s — beginning final month on the Black Desert NI Open, Bjerregaard’s tied for seventh, eighth, eighth once more and second. However that had adopted a 2023 marketing campaign the place he had only one prime 25. And 2022 and 2021 seasons the place he had three.
“When you don’t thoughts, may you inform us about the previous few years? When it’s not going nicely, what’s that like?”
“I’m unsure what the reason being,” Bjerregaard mentioned. “I believe it’s a little bit of a snowball impact with many issues. I believe my method hasn’t been ok, and my confidence certain as something hasn’t been wherever close to the place it was again in my prime. It’s been robust, little question. I felt very alone. I felt very a lot in search of solutions and never discovering something and it felt the extra I attempted, the much less success I had. Begin of the yr, I harm my again vacuuming at residence and I had two, two and a half months the place I couldn’t play, and it was a fairly darkish time the place I thought of possibly doing one thing else than taking part in golf, so once more, possibly I needed to get there earlier than I may begin taking part in higher once more.”
“You mentioned you nearly give up the sport. What gave you the motivation to maintain going?”
“In all probability my spouse and youngsters,” Bjerregaard mentioned. “A lot of the issues I do is for them. They’ve supported me, and I believe it could be mistaken to surrender. My spouse has stood behind me by all of this, and it’s been robust as a household to undergo it, however she believes in me and I’ve acquired a very good group of individuals at residence believing in me and serving to me out as a lot as they will, and I believe I owe it to provide it my all.”
Bjerregaard’s spouse is Henriette; his kids are Josephine and Noah.
“Thanks for being so open and trustworthy. It’s nice to see you taking part in nicely. Good luck, Lucas.”
“Thanks.”
