Sand see it coming. They joked about it to take iron out of the matter. Winther is coming (It was the easy joke of the week). And I ended up arriving. The Danish golfer imposed his law on the Mallorca Open after leading the first day with a brilliant card of 62 (-8) and repeating the result on Saturday to puncture the ball on the tee of Sunday 1 with two maneuvering strokes. He was not going to lose it and his start with 9 pairs in a row made it clear. If someone wanted to win the tournament, they would have to steal his wallet with birdies.
But the holes passed and no overwhelming round among the Spaniards stood out on the scoreboard that allowed to dream of the machado. Jorge Campillo started something stopped (+1 in the first round) and although Pep Angls I tried with a double birdie on holes 5 and 6, a bogey at 9 cooled the atmosphere. Something favorable for a dans, no doubt.
The flying goal of the day, with -6, was for a Laurie Canter who left his options for victory on Saturday and had to settle for climbing a dozen places to fifth place. In fact, the one who most disturbed the rent of two dans was another Nordic. Sebastian Soderberg He tied for the lead after the seventh hole, but two bogeys at 13 and 15 made him return to the second place that I ended up sharing with Campillo and Angls with a cumulative -14 hits.
The ‘boss’ Winther did not open the door and his only mistake came on 18, on his last putt … when he already knew he was going to miss it after Campillo’s ball missed the hole on his birdie attempt to -15. At 17, Angls also unknowingly blew a birdie putt that would have served to force a tiebreaker. The centimeters snatched from the Navy what would have been the third victory of theor in the European Circuit after those of Nacho Elvira (Cazoo Open) and Rafa Cabrera Bello (Open of Spain). Well … and Rahm’s US Open must be told too!
The fight to keep the security card in Portugal
One step behind ended Sebas Garca, in a tied fifth place that leaves him on the doorstep of securing your full gaming rights for the next season. His round of 68 strokes (-2) on Sunday, the fourth under par in the tournament, takes him up eleven places in the Race to Dubai to the ‘bubble’ position. The position 121 could be worth, but there are still two tournaments left and I will have to continue fighting the card in two weeks in Portugal (giving up on debuting on the PGA Tour in the Mayakoba tournament for which he had won a place in a previous one played a month ago).
The one who will also have to continue fighting his future in the final two dates of the season is a lvaro Quirs that he played much better than his card shows (+3 a day). The putts did not want to enter and two specific errors took him out of the Top 10 in which he had been all week. But the man from Cádiz, in addition to being a seven-time champion on the European Tour, is a whole worker from day to day and each week buries another ghost on its way out of a slump in results that has already lasted two years. It has been four cuts in four consecutive weeks and after a break pelear in Portugal and the Emirates to continue in the elite of European golf.
.
