The Canarian, just two shots from the leader, could win the most important tournament on the European Tour and get the PGA Tour card and qualify for the British Open
Rafa Cabrera Bello (-5) is facing an opportunity that would turn his season and his position in world golf completely upside down. The canary will come out in the last game, just two shots off the leader of the Genesis Scottish Open, being played at the Renaissance Golf Club in North Berwick, Scotland. We are not talking about another tournament. The event leading up to The Open Championship is one of the biggest ever held in the history of the DP World Tour calendar and the first tournament co-sanctioned by both the aforementioned European Tour and the PGA Tour. That means that the Spanish victory would include the jackpot: get back the PGA Tour card until 2024, In addition to entering the Open Championship through the front door. This last objective is in his hands, since the tournament grants three exemptions for the first three players in the ‘top ten’ who are not classified for the last major of the season.
The leader of the tournament is the North American Xander Schauffele (-7), the Olympic champion, is probably the fittest man in golf right now; He comes from winning his last two tournaments: the PGA Tour Travelers Championship and the prestigious JP McManus Proam, held this week.
For its part, the Canarian player started the final stretch of the Renaissance Golf Club in a spectacular way: an eagle and three consecutive birdies, in a magical sequence from the 10th to the 13th hole. There he accumulated a partial of five under par, which catapulted his return. Rafa, who already knows what it means to succeed in this tournament in 2017, will leave at 4:40 p.m. in Spain, with the opportunity to regain the place in world golf that he lost just with the arrival of the pandemic .
Things were much worse for John Rahm, who fell to 53rd place in the tournament after a bad round of 74 holes. The number 3 in the world has not just exhibited that consistency this season, one of his hallmarks since his professional beginnings.
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