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Many skilled footballers present a flare for golf once they grasp up their boots, but Milan legend Andriy Shevchenko has taken his passion for the fairways a step additional by participating in an expert event.
Despite playing off a retired-bank-supervisor handicap of two, the 2004 Ballon d’Or winner entered the Kharkov Superior Cup, a second-tier Challenge Tour tournament in his native Ukraine.
Unfortunately, after the primary day of play on Thursday, left-handed Sheva didn’t set the golfing world alight, capturing 12-over eighty four, bogeying eight holes of the front nine:
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Shevchenko is undoubtedly used to shooting 12 over form his days at Stamford Bridge (Boom!) nevertheless it appears most unlikely he’ll make Friday’s cut. In accordance with Spanish newspaper AS, his lengthy-term goal is to play golf at the Olympics.
While the 36-year-old shouldn’t hold his breath for Rio 2016, he’ll receive a quantum of solace from the fact that he was definitely not the worst golfer of the Ukrainian tournament. That dubious honour went to went to Poland’s Pawel Japol, who managed to shoot 37 over:
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Presumably, he was utilizing his golf equipment upside down on the thirteenth hole.
Anyway, we should always get again to writing about soccer now…
Andriy Shevchenko’s professional golf career didn’t start too well
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