The festival of Pablo Larrazabal in the third round of BMW PGA Championship He started at hole 7. Before, more squeezes than anything else. The beginning was thick. Barred. Bogey on hole 3, birdie to recover on 5 and bogey again on 6 with a trip. The par putt was one meter.
The matter was still gray going black in the beginning of 7. A concatenation of regular shots ends with a practically unplayable approach around the green. You didn’t have to be Sherlock Holmes to deduce that nothing better than a double bogey was going to come from there. That meant going +3 after seven holes. The ‘moving day’ looked ugly.
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However, Holmes did not count on Larrazábal’s hands. The Spanish golfer executed an impeccable, glorious approach and what reeked of double bogey turned into a pair flavored with two ears and tail. It was the turning point. From there, bugles and drums for an imperial march that he completed with 30 strokes in the second nine holes.
It is worth recreation. The sequence begins with a birdie on 10 after hitting a shot from the tee. Less than a meter. In the 11th he again holed a chip from off the green. More handymen. More Pablo. This is followed by two splendid putts of four and five and a half meters on holes 12 and 14 and a ‘key’ bet on 15. Leaving the green, after a good pair, Larrazábal and his caddy, Raúl Quirós, pose one of their usual games. On the table: if he finishes with a two-under-par run in the last three holes, Raúl pays. If he does it with one less or worse, Pablo pays.
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The three-hole mini tournament does not start well for Larrazábal. He misses a five-foot putt for a very frank birdie on the 16th hole. He needs two birdies to finish. On the 17th he signed the first after making a very delicate putt, with a double drop, of a meter and a half, and on the 18th came the apotheosis. He hits a good start and a splendid 4-iron with barely a meter to stay next to the eagle hole. The bunker prevents it. He swallows it. The sacada is a work of art. Made in Larrazábal. More handymen. He shoves it all over the center for eagle and wins the bet by far. Raúl pays happy in life.
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Larrazábal (-8) has signed the best lap of the day at Wentworth (66 strokes) and has placed himself in the top ten of the tournament, six strokes behind the leader Tyrrell Hatton (-14) and five from the second place who share Victor Perez (-11) and Joachim B. Hansen (-11). He equals his best result on this course in 37 laps. The other 66 did so in the last round of 2017. It is also the first time in twelve participations in the BMW PGA Championship that links two laps below 70 strokes. The possibility of victory is on the horizon, although it seems very difficult. A good intermediate goal could be to improve on his highest ever result in this tournament, a seventh place in 2014.
