Nicolas Colsaerts isn't called 'The Dude' for nothing. This week europeantour.com caught up with one of the coolest guys around to get his take on Mauritius, the summer ahead andthat Twitter video.
Hennie Otto and I are the two touring professionals here at the Four Seasons Golf Club Anahita. We came here in 2010 to play in the first edition of a pro-am event they have here every December and I’ve been coming back every year since. Sometimes in winter I spend two or three weeks here, so I know everyone from the guy who picks up the balls on the range to the guy serving the water and ice creams on the beach at the hotel.
"It’s like a second home."
Nicolas Colsaerts
It’s going to be a busy summer. Starting from the Spanish Open a few weeks ago and then two weeks in China, then it was a week off before four on the trot. Then another streak like that in the summer, so there’s lots to play for. Every season it’s really busy from December to February, then it gets a bit quieter if you’re not in the WGCs, then it gets right back to it from April to November.
I recently found out that I nearly got in trouble for my video on Twitter. It made good TV though, right? There were mixed feelings – those who said ‘awesome’ and a few who said I was irresponsible. I’m 33 and I’ve done a lot of stupid things in my life, so I’m old enough now to look out the window and see what’s out there before I took the shot.
It’s going to be a busy summer. Starting from the Spanish Open a few weeks ago and then two weeks in China, then it was a week off before four on the trot. Then another streak like that in the summer, so there’s lots to play for. Every season it’s really busy from December to February, then it gets a bit quieter if you’re not in the WGCs, then it gets right back to it from April to November.
I recently found out that I nearly got in trouble for my video on Twitter. It made good TV though, right? There were mixed feelings – those who said ‘awesome’ and a few who said I was irresponsible. I’m 33 and I’ve done a lot of stupid things in my life, so I’m old enough now to look out the window and see what’s out there before I took the shot.
Crazy night working on ball flight control with big @Coelsss & @melreidgolf @Ben_Craggs121 pic.twitter.com/mBD2z45SWC
— Kevin Craggs (@kevincraggsgolf) 8 February 2016
Everybody knows that by three or four o’clock in the morning, a lot of stupid ideas come to the surface. Mel Reid’s coach is a guy I met when I was about nine years old back in Belgium – a Scottish guy called Kevin Craggs. We hadn’t really seen each other for 20-odd years, so, as they say, things escalated quickly.
