Glen Muirhead relishing Perth Masters return as top class curling field descends on Dewars Centre

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Perthshire Olympian Glen Muirhead is relishing his return to the curling tour environment this week.Muirhead, originally from Blair Atholl and now of Crieff, has entered a team for the prestigious Mercure Perth Masters and will be joined by brother Thomas, Scott Andrews and Callum Kinnear at the familiar setting of Dewars Centre.The 33-year-old, who played in the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, gets his tournament underway on Wednesday evening.Some of the world’s best will be in the Fair City and Muirhead - a sheep farmer - realises playing in the Masters is a different kettle of fish compared to the Perth Super League, but is looking forward to getting back out there.“Without a doubt it is a free hit,” he said. “We have been away from competitive curling for three seasons now.“There are no expectations whatsoever.“I’m not oblivious to the fact that you have to be training regularly to keep yourself at the top.“With us not training and keeping ourselves in top tune, we’re just having a punt.

We just want to get in amongst it.“Hopefully we will win a few but we won’t be putting ourselves under any pressure.“If we can qualify then we would be delighted.”He added: “Since we couldn’t continue when it was full-time or nothing, we then fell into the Covid year.“The Masters didn’t run the last couple of years and this is the first one back to normality.“There is a decent field of teams and we just thought ‘why not?’“We have only really been playing Perth Super League and some club stuff.

You miss the competitive stuff.”Muirhead has played in the Perth Masters many times before and is delighted that a full line-up of men’s and ladies’ teams from Scotland, Europe and beyond will be hitting the local ice.“International