This Friday, at Wentworth West Coursean ‘inland’ course close to Windsor and Heathrow airport, and throughout its history has seen some success by Spanish golfers, which started badly for Jon Rahmit ended well for the Basque, world No. 3, in BMW PGA Championshipthe fetish tournament of the European Tour and where the Basque finished 2nd twice: 2019 and 2022.
Bad started the round for Barrika, with a double bogey-6 on hole 1 after a miserable second shot into the fairway bunker (the ball got stuck on the slope), and a bogey on hole 3 (with a +2 total on that day. is clearly outside the cut).
But far from falling (it does not affect the existence of exciting for 15 days Ryder Cup in Rome) Rahm turned the tables by signing a great eagle-3 on the only par 5 of the first 9 holes of this amazing English course. Ball on the exit fairway and a big 7 iron on the green, about 4 meters from the hole, to put the ball in the pot.
The next four holes were all pars and on 9 came the first birdie after a long putt that left him with a big smile, the same he offered on hole 6 after saving an incredible par 4 by holding the chip from the thick collar of the green. That was probably the turning point of the return.
Two more birdies on holes 11 and 12 (another par 5) put him comfortably in the red. On the 14th, par 3, great shot to just a meter from the flag and another birdie in the bag. On the 17th, after a very, very long start, he added some suspense to the fifth birdie on the card as he had to chip and putt from five feet for ‘4’.
His fighting spirit and not giving up his arms (he didn’t show his ‘A’ game at all, really) rewarded him with a sixth birdie on the 18th and perfected one of the par 5s (he shot that one big eagle putt. lapped the edge) for a card of 67 strokes and a 138 (-6) total, just three behind the clubhouse leaders: the surprising Japanese Kawamura (63), the Polish Meronk (68) and the Belgian Detry (68).
Great reaction from Jon, how important this result is for the man from Bilbao, a huge morale booster after the FedEx Cup disappointment and that said, he made +3 in 3 holes and -8 in the next 15.
Campillo and Larrazábal were included
Of the Ryder men who played the morning shift this Friday, apart from Rahm’s 67, Nicolai Hojgaard did too 67 hits, Tyrrell Hatton, 69, Matthew Fitzpatrick, 72, Justin Rose, 71 and Robert MacIntyre, 69.
To end the good performance of the Spaniard on this second day, a fighter Pablo Larrazabal He carded a 71 stroke (five birdies and four bogeys) for 138who is tied with Rahm at -6, while the best classified after the first 36 holes is the Extremaduran Jorge Campillo (70 and 137, -7). Jorge is about to get a hole in one on the 14th, with a BMW as a prize. Rafael Cabrera He did not want to be less and scored 67 added 139 (-5).
Source: La Verdad
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