Ex-Spurs star Gareth Bale partners with Rory McIlroy and Stuart Broad in ultimate golf contest
Former Tottenham Hotspur winger Gareth Bale will play alongside Rory McIlory at the BMW PGA Championship Pro-Am on Wednesday at Wentworth.
The ex-Wales international, who has played golf alongside his football career, plays off scratch and will make up part of McIlroy's group as the worlds of sport and showbiz collide.
Former England international cricketer, Stuart Broad, who plays off 6.4, will also join Bale and McIlroy on the course along with another player who is to be confirmed. The group will tee off on the first hole in the morning session at 8:00am.
McIlroy is ranked third in the world according to the latest Official World Golf rankings - behind American's Scottie Scheffler and Xander Schauffelle - and is among the favourites to win the BMW PGA Championship which gets underway the following day.
The Pro-Am acts as the curtain-raiser for the Championship, with Tommy Fleetwood also in action at Wentworth. There's a whole host of big names taking part in the competition, including Andy Murray, Tom Holland, Ben Stokes, Troy Deeney, Dan Walker, Tony Bellew and Michael McIntyre.
Bale has spoken at length about how golf helped with the pressure of playing football which didn't necessarily go down well with Real Madrid supporters, despite winning four Champions League titles with Los Blancos.
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"It [love of golf] actually started quite late for me to be honest," Bale told Sky Sports earlier this year.. "We were at Tottenham at the time, and there was quite a few of the boys playing golf. It's kind of a tradition in British football, a lot of the boys play.
"They invited me one day, I got a set of clubs and kind of just got addicted from there on in. We had a group of seven or eight of us that used to go out every couple of weeks, whenever we had time, and yeah I got addicted straight away.
"I had the big banana slice like you do at the start, and I've been working on it ever since to be honest. Obviously golf is one of the most frustrating sports mentally, but for me, because there's so much pressure in football and people are constantly on top of you, there's scrutiny and media and stuff...
"I always used it as: You have four and a half hours, whether you're with friends or on your own, just to get away from life and all the pressures of football and just have this battle with the golf course and golf ball.
"It was that sort of freedom that I guess really kept me mentally sane during my career, and it helped me a lot to overcome those pressures. I used golf as a tool to help my career to be honest.