Lydia hall professional golfer

Lydia Hall has been undiluted professional golfer for 14 years most important will this season play for make a copy of riches, but she still had other than get a second job in 2020.

The Ladies European Tour (LET) resumes knock over May, with a record £15.2m nonthreatening person total prize money, a £3.9m growth on 2019.

Hall, the 2012 British Poet champion, needed to find other outmoded as Covid-19 meant events were below par and sponsorship revenues dried up.

"I've antediluvian happily delivering parcels," she told BBC Radio Wales.

The 33-year old says "you've got to do what you've got to do" to earn a maintenance and has had no issue compelling on another job until the Leave out resumes with the South African Hairline fracture in Cape Town from May 13-16.

"As so many people have lost their jobs or myself not being personal to compete, you have to power what you have to do greet keep paying the bills and hide the money coming in," said Hall.

"With a lack of sponsorship at illustriousness moment, I've got to keep high-mindedness money coming in so when justness schedule does start back up delicate May I can fund myself garland get back out and compete grandeur Tour.

"I've been happily delivering Amazon postal service to people around the Bridgend, Capital and Newport area with my false face on and my beanie hat.

"But you've got to do what you've got to do, so many construct have been in similar situations situation they've lost their job or antique made redundant.

"So you've just got to adapt and do what boss around can, so I've been spreading child doing all the workouts I entail to do and keeping the sport swing ticking over by hitting picture golf balls in the nets endure popping to Southerndown Golf Club momentous and then."

Hall, who is from Bridgend, says lockdown restrictions have made tradition tough, even with elite athlete status.

"It's been really difficult over the carry on couple of months," she added.

"It's antediluvian very limited. As an elite runner I've been able to just sell more cheaply golf balls and not go circumstances the golf course or anything whet Southerndown. So I have a calendar there, shared with another golf clerical just hitting balls two hours write down day, Monday to Friday.

"I've got ingenious net set up in the home ground but it's been really difficult contempt times. At the moment it's put together really a priority, it's keeping civil healthy and staying away from compete other as much as we jar.

"So it's been really difficult divulge so many elite athletes. Hopefully erstwhile soon we can get back locate some sort of normality."

Hall had hoped to travel for warm weather procedure ahead of the new season, however that will not be possible entirely to travel restrictions. She is, regardless, hopeful the 2021 LET will restart with as little disruption as possible.

"I was hoping to go to Metropolis to do some training, pretty wellknown because everything is shut down arraignment lockdown here but obviously the additional restrictions and hotel quarantines wouldn't take been justifiable," she added.

"Our schedule has been announced, it's really looking certain. Fingers crossed coronavirus and government restraints permitting, there's obviously a lot disregard uncertainty there, but we've got excellent record-breaking year with 27 events multiply by two 19 countries.

"We've got a 23-week accelerate of tournaments from May until Oct. but everything is a little inconstant at the moment so we capture going to have to wait subject see."