Gareth Bale: “A lot of people have problems with me playing golf"

An unbylined Reuters story quotes Real Madrid star Garreth Bale revealing to Erik Anders Lang just how much his passion for golf has been an issue for his career.

“A lot of people have problems with me playing golf,” Bale told U.S golf podcast The Eric Anders Lang Show.

“I don’t know what their reason is because I’ve spoken to doctors and everybody’s fine with it. The media has this perception that it’s not good for me, you should be resting, it can cause you injuries.

“(U.S. basketball player) Steph Curry plays maybe on the morning of a game. If I play two days before a game, it’s like ‘what’s he doing?’”

Here is the Apple podcast link to Lang’s discussion with Bale, where he talks about life on Real Madrid, how golf is his escape and how he replicated three famous par-3’s in his Wales backyard (it’s rather impressive!). Or the YouTube version: