Australian golfing great Greg Norman says he wouldn't wish COVID-19 on anybody, after twice being admitted to hospital over the Christmas period.
The 65-year-old is now on the road to recovery, having spent Christmas Day in a Florida hospital after testing positive to the virus.
He's now quarantining at home, having been discharged.
"Right now, I feel pretty fatigued," Norman told NBC.
"This is a once-in-a-hundred-year pandemic, we're all learning on the fly and just trying to understand it."
Norman's son, Greg Jnr, and his wife Michelle, also tested positive, and it was then that Norman began to develop his own symptoms.
"I couldn't move, there was just severe tightness and aches and pains," he said.
"There was a time just before Christmas Eve, I went to walk my dog and I couldn't even open the door handle with my hands, my hands hurt that much."
The two-time British Open champion said he was most surprised by "how it just totally hit me from the top of my head all the way down."
Norman said any suggestion that only the elderly or frail were vulnerable to the virus is rubbish.
"That is total BS, because I'm a very fit guy," he said.
"I wouldn't wish this on anybody. Any of the symptoms that I've had, not the combination, just any one of the symptoms I've had, I wouldn't want to wish them on anyone."
Norman and his son played in the PGA Tour's PNC Challenge before Christmas, the same tournament that saw Tiger Woods play alongside his son Charlie.
In an Instagram post from hospital two days ago, Norman urged people to be extra vigalent.
"Please take this very very serious(ly)," he wrote.
"If you get it, the variations and intensity of symptoms varies from person to person.
"I am fit and strong and have a high tolerance for pain but this virus kicked the crap out of me like nothing I have ever experienced before.
"Muscle and joint pain on another level. Headaches that feel like a chisel going through your head scrapping little bits off each time, fever, muscles that just did not want to work like yesterday walking my dog Apollo my quads and hip flexors just did not want to work due to fatigue," he detailed.
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