The DP World Tour’s flagship event, the BMW PGA Championship, features many of the world’s best players, including all 12 of the European Ryder Cup team.
Before the main action gets underway, though, the tournament’s Celebrity Pro-Am takes place, with familiar faces from the worlds of sport and entertainment in the field.
Here are some of the biggest names taking part in this year’s event.
Gareth Bale
Gareth Bale has played in several tournaments since retiring from soccer
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The former Real Madrid soccer star is a huge golf fan and even has replicas of his favourite three holes in his back garden in Wales. It’s hardly surprising, then, that since retiring from soccer at the start of the year, he’s been devoting plenty of his spare time to golf.
That included an appearance in the pro-am before January’s Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines, where he teed it up alongside Jon Rahm, who said Bale “has no business being that good golf.” The following month, Bale played in the Pebble Beach Pro-Am, while he is also in the field for the Ryder Cup Celebrity All-Star Match later in the month.
Tom Holland
Tom Holland is a keen golfer away from his career as an actor
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Spider-Man star Holland is a Hollywood A-lister, but away from acting he is a keen golfer. In 2021, the Englishman told The Hollywood Reporter what the game meant to him. He said: “Playing golf is what I do. I’m addicted to golf, and had I not been addicted to golf, I would have had a very different career. It’s a nice way to disconnect from what’s going on around you.”
Holland will be joined in the Celebrity Pro-Am by his twin siblings Sam, a budding chef, and fellow actor Harry.
Kathryn Newton
Kathryn Newton is an ambassador for The R&A
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The Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania star is an accomplished golfer who was part of a Notre Dame High School team that won three championships before she made a name for herself on the big screen.
Like Bale, she is also appearing in the Ryder Cup Celebrity All-Star Match, but before that she takes on the West Course at Wentworth. She is also an official ambassador of The…
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