Caste comes to the greyhound. No doubt. Son of the ‘golden girl’ of field hockey in Barcelona 92 Sonia Barrio, and the Olympic swimmer in Seoul, Barcelona and Atlanta Jose Luis Ballester Rubert, Josele Ballester (Castellón, 2004)as his countryman did Sergio García in 1996, will play in the British Open thanks to her winning the Amateur European Championship in Estonian. This past weekend, the brilliant amateur golfer from arizona state He won gold with the Spanish team at the European Team Championship in Belgium.
“This is a dream come true, being here with all the players you admire since I was little makes me really want to start tomorrow”, was the first reflection of this new pearl of Spanish golf, when the figure of his compatriot appeared in his day Sergio García, European champion in 1995 and British debutant in 1996 at Royal Lytham.
“I have talked to him, in fact he has a message for me and told me to try to enjoy as much as possible although it is complicated because there are many things around you that you are not used to living as a beginner. , not easy. And he also told me that The fact that he plays well is not indicative of a positive week. A lot of good things can be achieved by not playing well. Therefore, what I prefer is to enjoy and learn” , added Josele.
He assumes that he does not have even a remote level to compete with all these people and therefore he needs to finish the two long years he has left at Arizona State first and then comes the leap to the professional. “No, not at all. In college I still have a lot to improve on. Rahm was there to help but Arizona State has a lot of Spanish tradition because we like it and because the golf program they have is the best in the country. From that’s where a lot of players come out,” he said.
He described the experience of Monday’s training with Rahm as “very cool”, “he is very close whenever he can, he approaches the university and knowing that I am a beginner he tries to calm me down a bit. In ten”.
The other Spaniards on the starting line this Thursday are Pablo Larrazábal, Adrián Otaegui and Alejandro Cañizares. The son of the great ‘Cañi’ continues with cervical problems, after gaining exemption in Australia at the end of 2022, and has not competed since March. His caddy is RCG El Prat professional Eduardo de la Riva Bonny, who still has the best result by a Spanish rookie at the Open, at Muirfield 2013 (15th). Cañizares is playing in his fourth British, with 27th tied at Saint Andrews 2020 for the best final. Otaegui played his sixth major and was the only British player not to make the cut.
Source: La Verdad
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