Estonia has seven golf courses, but one 20-year-old amateur in the open field

Portrush, Northern Ireland – no one could call Estonia ideal for golfers.

The Baltic nation of 1.3 million people has only seven courses and as many as 3,500 registered golfers. Because of his climate, the golf season can last barely five months.

Getting above these obstacles is Richard Teder.

That this thin amateur, 20-year-old amateur with multi, spectacles and self-timed English from the open air, because it is the first Estonian who ever competed at the main golf championships is one of the most important stories this week in the Royal Poro.

And he experiences the grip to me wherever he turns.

“I’m just in the club house and things, seeing Brooks Koeka and all that big, big names,” says Teder. “It’s so cool.”

The impossible way of Teder to the open championship began at the age of 6 when his aunt won a tennis tournament, making a bit of a random prize: 10 golf passes.

No one in the trend family was in golf so young Richard, who just got into the sport at the time, was invited together.

Golf soon crossed football as his chosen search and his mother decided to cross everything in Richard, taking him to Spain for the months of long-lasting parts during the winter after he turned 12.

“For us in Estonia, the golf season begins in May,” he explained on the back of the ninth green during the circle in Portroški. “Obviously there are some people who just play golf after snow disappeared. But I’m not me.”

It takes more than a clean talent for the tread to bring it to the open championship.

It took her resilience, during August with 36 hole in the west of Lancashire after he made a double God in the last hole to fall into the reset of sudden death with four men.

In the third drill hole, The teder banged for an eagle of 50 meters Provide a place in Portrush. He squeezed his face with his hands and soon worn horizontally on his shoulders of his jubilant tub.

“It is the largest tournament in the world – there is nothing bigger than this – so that it is absolutely crazy,” Teder said, who lives in the capital Estonia, Tallinn. “All who play a golf return home knows what I did and I am very proud.”

Estonia, which neighbors Russia and regain independence in 1991. years after almost 50 years of Soviet rule, has several famous sports stars.

Erki Nool won a Decathlon gold medal at the 2000 Olympics. In Sydney. Anett Kontaveit got on no. 2 in the world in the world in a woman’s tennis before he was forced to retire in 2023. Years. Ragnar Klan, a football player, was in English Gigantic Liverpool from 2016-18.

Indeed, the first on the Eurovision Song Competition is coming in 2001. year, the most attractive victory in the country could be.

It is now a third turn for an officio stage and is a big moment for Estonia.

“He was the first one who ever played in Major, so it is hard to compare with anything else,” said Christmas Raudar, Secretary General of the Estonian Golf Association.

“I think there are a lot of people who are interested in sports, but they are not interested in golf before the news will catch up and may try to watch.”

If you catch the coverage of the teder, see its drive. He says he “hit him far”, bragging him with a worship of up to 300 meters (328 m) – the distance that would put him there with the longest on the PGA tour.

Otherwise it will only have the time of your young life.

“I don’t really look at golf, I’ve never been on a golf tournament. It’s so pretty cool to be here,” the tiger said.

“It really doesn’t really feel real. But I know I belong here.”