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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Alasdair Hooper

Golfer Matt Williams' mental health battle as he fought to help family during lockdown

The otherworldly experience of a lockdown affected each and everyone of us but for golfer Matt Williams it had a particularly damaging impact.

As the country responded to the sweeping Covid pandemic, the British PGA golfer was having to face up to some hard questions. He had a young child, a partner who had just come off maternity pay and - crucially - he had just quit his job to concentrate on playing full-time.

What came next was a deep and personal struggle with his mental health. There was depression and anxiety - all wrapped around the ongoing questions going on inside his head. How would he, and his family, get by when the globe was wrapped up in a crisis like no other?

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