The Congaree Golf Club in Ridgeland, South Carolina, is hosting from this Thursday the CJ Cupa tournament played for three years in South Korea, as part of the Asian tour of PGA Toursand since 2020, due to Covid-19, he moved to the US, where he reached Las Vegas and now the East Coast.
An event of the highest interest both for its large prize pool, 10.5 million dollars, and for the level of players, with 21 of the 30 best players in the world ranked, including number 1, scottie schefflerhis main rival in the fight for this throne, Rory McIlroy and Jon Rahm.
The Basque will once again fight for victory and in addition to world number 1 and defending champion McIlroy will have rivals of the stature of Justin Thomas or Jordan Spieth.
“I’ve been working on some things and obviously they’ve been successful so hopefully I can keep it up this week. The Congaree greens are in incredible shape, so we’re going to have to hit a lot of putts,” said the Basque, who kicked off the 2022-2023 PGA Tour season this week.
Going for an unusual record
On the other hand, remember that this week the european tour stop at the Balearic Islands, specifically at Son Muntanerheadquarters of Majorca is open. This is the fifth round of DP World 2022 on Spanish soil. And the last four tournaments on the circuit have had a Spanish winner.
Pablo Larrazabal he won at the end of April in the Handa Championship in Infinitum (Tarragona); the following week was adri arnaus who won the Catalunya Championship at the PGA in Caldes de Malavella (Girona); two weeks ago came the victory of Jon Rahm at the Spanish Open at Madrid Country Club; and the last is the exhibition (the 200th victory of a Spaniard since the establishment of the European Tour in 1972) of Adrian Otaegui at the Estrella Damm Andalucía Masters in Valderrama (Cádiz).
This week there could be a fifth consecutive victory for Spanish golf at home, something that has never happened before.
In 1992, the Spaniards chained four consecutive victories in several tournaments in Spain: Txema Olazabal he won the Open de Tenerife and immediately afterwards the Open Mediterrania in Valencia; later it is Seve Ballesteros who won the Balearic Open in Santa Ponça and finally Pepin Rivero claimed victory in the Open Catalonia at Golf d’Aro, in Platja d’Aro (Girona). The successful streak was broken the same year, when Englishman Andrew Sherbone won the Spanish Open at RACE in Madrid.
Both tournaments can be followed live on Movistar Golf from this Thursday.
Source: La Verdad
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