AFP / Ezra Shaw
Gareth Bale’s love for golf has been well-documented, and the previous Real Madrid and Wales ahead has swapped the pitch for the inexperienced after turning into a playable character within the PGA Tour 2K23 online game.
Bale, 34, made his PGA Tour debut on the Pebble Beach Pro-Am in February after calling time on his glittering soccer profession in the beginning of the 12 months. He additionally teed off alongside Rory McIlroy at this week’s BMW PGA Championship Celebrity Pro-Am.
His ardour for the game typically led to criticism whereas he was in Madrid, particularly in 2019 after he celebrated with a Welsh flag which learn: “Wales. Golf. Madrid. In that order.”
The former Wales captain, who was featured on the quilt of Electronic Arts’ FIFA 14 online game alongside Lionel Messi, has now been added to PGA Tour 2K23, which features a course custom-designed by him.
“I’m Gareth Bale. I’m here getting scanned in PGA Tour 2K23,” he mentioned in a video shared on social media.
Bale performed for Southampton and Tottenham Hotspur earlier than becoming a member of Real in 2013 for a then-world file deal value 100 million euros (AED 392.03 million), the place he received 5 Champions League titles, amongst a number of different main honours.
He led Wales to the Euro 2016 semi-finals and their first World Cup since 1958 finally 12 months’s event in Qatar. Bale’s tally of 111 caps and 41 worldwide objectives are each information for the Wales males’s workforce.
