Guerrier (62), first leader with Jon Rahm (70) further back at the Andalusia Masters

The French Julien Guerrierwith ten goals under par, is the leader after the first day of the Estrella Damm Andalucía Masters golf tournament, which will take place from this Thursday to Sunday in Royal Sotogrande Golf Clubin the municipal area of San Roque (Cádiz).

Guerrier scored 62 strokes on the opening day of a tournament that reached its tenth edition, the second in a row at the new venue after the first round at Real Club Valderrama, now the Spanish headquarters of LIV Golf.

The British was behind the Frenchman, just one blow away Daniel Brown (-9) and two of the best classified Spanish, Extremaduran Jorge Campillothird with eight strokes under par in the field and a 64 total.

Guerrier made ten birdies on a very sensible course, with more than half of the holes lost. In the first eleven, he made nine with one impact less than the marked pair, most of the 4 hits, but even some of them set the 5 he played in the highly applauded quartet.

“I felt playing the PlayStation in the first nine holes, it was very pleasant, very good, but I tried to stay focused in the 18 holes because we know that in this wind anything can happen. When you play like that and everything is fine for you, you accept everything, it feels good,” explained Guerrier.

Campillo, for his part, did not make any bogeys nor did he make any eagles, but he did make eight birdies to end the day in third and, unlike Guerrier, he backed up his power with his putts on the second half of the course. with seven of his ‘birdies’ in ten holes, from seven to seventeen.

In the star figure of the tournament, the Basque Jon Rahmhe choked on the first day in Sotogrande, finishing with a score of two under par and a long distance from the first places (70).

By the 4th hole, Rahm had already suffered two bogeys, which he resolved two holes later with two birdies, but he had already put himself on the 6th hole, par for the field, thus wasting the third part of the field to get to par , as it started, and its subsequent reaction was not to tie itself in the top positions.

The second day of this tournament belonging to the ‘DP World Tour’ circuit is scheduled for Friday and, after that, the cutoff will be made to face the last two days.

Classification

1st day

ESTRELLA DAMM
ANDALUCÍA MASTERS (par 72)
62 Julien Guerrier (France)
63 Daniel Brown (England)
64 Jorge Campillo (SPAIN)
65 Johannes Veerman (United States)
…
68 Eugenio Chacarra (SPAIN/12th)
69 Alejandro Del Rey (SPAIN/24th)
David Puig (SPAIN)
70 Jon Rahm (SPAIN/39th)
Angel Hidalgo (SPAIN)
Nacho Elvira (SPAIN)
Manuel Elvira (SPAIN)
Sebastian Garcia (SPAIN)
Alfredo García-Heredia (SPAIN)
71 Adri Arnaus (SPAIN/61st)
72 Adrián Otaegui (SPAIN/71st)
Santi Tarrío (SPAIN)
73 Pablo Larrazábal (SPAIN/91st)
Ivan Cantero (SPAIN)