Bale rubs shoulders with PGA professionals

The first contact of Gareth Bale with the PGA Tour it happened this thursday Pebble Beach Pro-Am partnered with American Joseph Bramlett. The duo closed the day in the top fifteen with a card of -7, five shots behind the leaders, the American Will Gordon and the businessman Thomas Dundon.

From the very beginning, the former player of real Madrid He showed his ability in this sport.

A bad start to one ended with the ball in the bunker but never mind He knows how to save the shot so it ends up in par on the field.

On the second hole he made a bad ‘approach’ to the green where he had to ‘drop’ the ball and hit from the uneven asphalt road with the flag.

He delicately managed to put it on the green very close to the hole saving a shot that could have ruined his card very quickly. The video of this action quickly went viral on social media.

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His run was remarkable and helped the pair finish the day at -7; in some holes bramlett He made a bogey and the Welshman came to the rescue to score his ball as the best score.

Although during his career as a footballer his passion for golf was known (especially on the famous flag with the motto “Wales, golf and Madrid, in that order”), it is evident that never mind it’s far from professional.

But play the tournament Pro Am The most prestigious and important club in the world, and to do so by competing and playing each other, says a lot about its good level and potential.

Both argue their day in the Spyglass Hillone of the three fields that make up Pebble Beach and all participants must play.

For this reason, the cutoff in this tournament will be held on Saturday and not on Friday, as is traditional in the PGA.

On behalf of the organization of this tournament to be held at California It is clear that the three courses are specifically prepared so that they present similar conditions, thus avoiding that there may be advantages in playing one course or another on a particular day.

Within Spyglass Hill also played Paul Gasolaccompanied by an American professional Mark Hubbard.

The pair opened their tour with a tee time immediately after never mind

The Spanish basketball legend, a great fan of golf since he retired from the courts, completed a beautiful card and showed interesting details. He served his partner’s balance on holes one, three and 18, where he closed with a bogey.

hubbard he is almost out of options in the professional classification with more than par.

But in the Pro-Am, thanks for the good day of oil, they closed at -5 in the tournament’s Top 50.

Among the other celebrities who took part in the contest was the quarterback Aaron Rodgers, that he took the opportunity to deny his arrival to the San Francisco 49ers and that with the Canadian Ben Silverman He closed the first day with the third best score, two shots behind the leaders.

The competition format in this tournament is four-ball. That is, each player plays his ball and the best result of each pair is recorded. As can be seen, the professionals registered the most scores among all the couples.

They also compete simultaneously for the official tournament of PGA, all the strokes they make in 18 holes are counted on their individual card.

At the close of the first day, the American Hank Lebioda He occupies the first position after the tour by 63 shots, eight under the field he played, the Monterey Peninsula.

His countrymen follow him Kurt Kitayama and Chad Ramey apart from english Harry Hall, they are all seven under par for the field to one behind the leader.

Seven of the first eleven classified in general fought on their first day in the field Monterey Peninsula, which seems to favor the other two.