Will Greenwood: Adam Gee winning European Tour card the beginning of great things – and I was in at the start

Will Greenwood followed the action from Girona as his friend Adam Gee won a European Tour card after just one season on the Challenge Tour. Here he recalls one of his happiest days in sport.

Team Gee. One of my happiest days in sport. Absolutely no doubt about it. We have been part of something special.

We wanted to raise more money, we didn’t, the reasons for that are many. But to you merry few, to you believers, I say thank you for your support, thank you for your belief in a man I know can go on to great things.

I met Adam a long time ago now and have had the pleasure of seeing him battle demons, get up off the canvas, force himself to sell his soul a little for webackyou, but ultimately achieve the dream.

His video we made at The Wisley back in March says it all. When I asked him where do you see yourself in 18 months time, his answer instantaneous. On the tour. He has done it in his first season!!! Stick that in your pipe anyone who questioned our man.

For make no bones about it, he is OUR man. To all those Manchester United supporters out there who joined the dirty reds when they had won titles we say booooooo. We are Manchester City, we always believed, when Adam was in the lower leagues fighting for form, we were there. We always knew our kid could live the dream.

Adam Gee has allowed us to relive our youth, our golfing dreams, vicariously through him. To quote his favourite band:

“Today is gonna be the day, that they’re gonna throw it back to you.

“By now you should’ve somehow realised what you gotta do.

“I don’t believe that anybody, feels the way I do about you now.”

Today was his day, a day that he can draw strength from, look back on, ultimately know that when it comes down to he can deliver on!

I am currently sat on a train from Liverpool to London, a quiet train, people minding their own business, but I want to stand up and shout: “Today, Adam Gee announced himself on the golfing world. Gee Force is coming, be prepared, be ready, his sarcasm, dry wit, occasional grumpiness is about to stand tall on the world stage, and we few, we very few, were there when it all began”