Former Ryder Cup star retires from golf for heartbreaking reason

The final lower Victor Dubuisson made on the DP World Tour wasn’t way back. It was in August, on the Czech Masters.

Dubuisson’s rounds of 70-68-75-77 had been ok for 69th place and a €3,700 payday. The match was one in every of eight Dubuisson performed on this yr. He WDed from his two most up-to-date tournaments, the Irish Open and the BMW PGA Championship, after posting opening-round 77s.

That’s why seeing Dubuisson’s title being on the checklist of gamers within the LIV Golf Promotions area wasn’t that shocking. He performed in 2023 with no full exemption, and though he’s had various shiny spots in recent times, the 33-year-old Frenchman’s current kind appeared far-removed from the sport that gained him two DP World Tour titles on the Turkish Open in 2013 and 2015, and made him a Ryder Cup star in 2014 at Gleneagles in Scotland, the place he went 2-0-1.

But earlier than teeing off in his try to qualify for LIV’s 2024 season of play, Dubuisson pivoted in stunning trend. He didn’t simply withdraw from the match, he introduced his intention to retire from skilled golf.

According to French newspaper L’Equipe, Dubuisson cited his lonely life-style as his major motivator for leaving the tour grind behind.

“The solitude had become extremely heavy,” he informed L’Equipe. “I began from nothing, so I’m extraordinarily glad with what I’ve finished. I see myself as a bit child with my little bag and my Decathlon golf equipment.

“I wasn’t at all predestined to have this career,” he continued. “A lot of people will say that I could have done more and that I could have been world No. 1. But my strength is being satisfied with what I had. I’m happy with that. I don’t live in regret to dwell on all the time.”

Dubuisson says he hopes his future will embrace extra significant interplay.

“I spent 15 years alone on the Tour, curled up on myself,” he informed L’Equipe. “I missed contact with people. So it’s just simple human relationships around golf that I want to have.”

Dubuisson will shut his professional golf profession with two wins, 35 high 10s, and a complete of 10 million Euro in winnings on the DP World Tour.

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