Andy Murray is well and truly embracing his new title of golfer.

The three-time Grand Slam champion officially retired from professional tennis last month. He quickly changed his X (formerly known as Twitter) bio to say: “I now play golf.”

And he will now be putting himself to the test in a Pro-Am tournament later this month.

Ahead of his final tournament earlier this summer, Murray declared that he wanted to become a scratch golfer in retirement. And he is sticking to his word.

The former world No. 1 has been on the golf course several times since he said farewell in the men’s doubles event at the Olympics. He played a round with his doubles partner Dan Evans before revealing that he had his first golf lesson earlier this week.

And Murray has now taken it up a notch, entering the BMW PGA Championship. Organisers announced the news on Friday, tweeting: “3x Grand Slam winner, Sir @andy_murray , will be swapping his racket for clubs, as he tees it up in the #BMWPGA Pro-Am”.

It comes weeks after he hung up his racket at the Paris 2024 Games. Murray and Evans reached the quarter-final, going out to America’s Taylor Fritz and Tommy Paul and narrowly missing out on the chance to fight for a medal.

Gareth Bale and Stuart Broad are among the other sportspeople to sign up for the Pro-Am. And Murray isn’t the only tennis player who has tried his hand at amateur golf.

Last year, Novak Djokovic entered the All-Star Celebrity match at the Ryder Cup. Weeks after winning a record 24th Grand Slam title at the US Open, he was part of Colin Montgomerie’s winning team at the Marco Simone Golf & Country Club course. “I was very nervous but I did pretty well in the end,” the Serb said at the time.