First time back after four months without touching a club following a knee replacement.

Started off with some chipping and was definitely rusty with the odd good chip interspersed with some thins and fat ones. It really didn’t help that I was sharing the chipping green with Kris Kim and his ex-pro mother watching on.

Then to the range for some short irons - Kris was already there. I think it took about eight wedges to final get one off the deck! I did eventually start to hit some proper golf shots so there is hope.

I now need to see how the knee reacts overnight- hopefully will be fine.

Has anyone else come back from a total knee replacement as I’d be very interested in how long it took to get back to playing 18 and how your game was affected.

Ps the photo is the range - before I used it!