in the tourism sector working for sotc travel and formerly air india told toimultiple asian tour winner shiv kapur who shifted to dubai last year has been stranded in dehradun with his wife maya and threeyearold daughter veda since march 9 due to the coronavirus outbreak kapur insisted that these are challenging times for professionals as for them contesting for prize money is the only way to earn a livingapart from grocery and pharmacy stores nobody is making a living right now most businesses are encouraging people to work from home but sport is such that you cannot work from home its great to say stay home stay safe but we need to get back to work almost 90 per cent golfers in the world are waiting for things to open in order to hit the fairways its very difficult to sit at home for six months to a year as a pro golfer and be able to pay bills tuition fees of kids rentals mortgages and loans etc for them playing is the only way to support their families in fact sports is more in an urgent situation to get back to normal kapur told toieuropean tour regular gaganjeet bhullar went a step further saying it will be more difficult for the newly turned professionals to sustain in these torrid timespeople like me or say jyoti randhawa jeev milkha singh sir have made enough money to feed themselves and their family for the rest of their lives but imagine someone who has just turned pro or 23 years into the game for him it is really difficult as his core earning skill is just golf also think of the caddies in smaller clubs or towns without any clublevel tournament happening what are they going to do though big clubs like delhi golf club dlf golf country club jaypee greens etc are doing their bit not every club is financially supporting them the situation is getting scary each day californiabased bhullar told toi from kapurthalahonorary treasurer and founding member of the gia brandon desouza feels golf has the ability to recover from the situation faster than any other sport owing to the open space on which it is playedthings are getting bad each day but it is not just due to corona the automobile sector has been facing a slump since the last two years most sponsors felt they were not getting proper return on investment roi so they tied their purse strings yeah corona has definitely made life hell for the entire golf fraternity people used to take the teaching route to sustain themselves if they couldnt make money professionally but that too is out of bounds now individuals took up corporate jobs via vocational training but offices are closed and many companies have decided to make salary cuts still i am optimistic that once the lockdown ends golf will be the fastest sport to recover its the only sport where social distancing is easy to practice conducting