the guipuzcoan Adrian Otaegui He is a true golfer and he showed it this Thursday at Day one of the British Open at Royal Liverpool. He shot 67 shots, four under par, and stand on provisional top 5 just one shot behind the co-leaders, rookie Christo Lamprecht, Englishman Tommy Fleetwood and Argentinean Emiliano Grillo. We can say the Basque did it Jon Rahm -they are friends and Jon coached him when he won the British Boys- and showing a good repertoire of shots, especially on the second nine holes, he delivered a great result that will surely boost his morale and confidence after a bitter experience at LIV Golf, a circuit where he played and was sanctioned in February with a fine and four weeks without competing on the European Tour.
“It was a round where I didn’t have many problems, only on hole 1 where the ball stayed on a bad ‘lie’ and I lost a shot, but from there it was very good, I took a lot of fairways . , many greens, and in the second round I made some long putts and the truth is that the -4 in the second nine holes left a good taste in my mouth”, said Adrián for the first time in the mixed zone .
The neat athlete – “I played as I planned to play” -, methodical, not too talkative in the past, the winner of four European Tour tournaments, the last of them in 2022 after an exhibition in Valderrama, does not want see beyond the second day this Friday, and of course not make the Ryder team. At 30 years old and in his second British, he could not determine if this was his best result in a ‘major’, although he said that “by the result, I think. , concentrated, putting the ball in fairway , on the green. That would be the summary of the round”, added San Sebastian, Real’s follower.
“I played as I wanted in the second nine holes, without getting into trouble”, to immediately talk about the four weeks in which he could not compete, in which he played a tournament on the national circuit, and returned two and a half weeks ago. in Denmark, also playing the Scottish Open. “For me the most important thing is not to lose the rhythm and in a month you lose the feeling and it costs more to come back, but playing in Meaztegi is very good for me, the best training is the competition. I am happy with what I have, now eat some pasta, rest, go to the gym and think about coming back tomorrow”.
Finally, he said he looked at the marker a few times but without any anxiety, “I’m just thinking about doing a good lap, doing better or worse doesn’t change anything in my head.”
Source: La Verdad
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