Sprechen deutsch, english spoken, se habla espaol… i se xerra mallorqu. The island of Mallorca is multilingual thanks to European tourism, with Germans and British at the headand on its golf courses multiple languages coexist with the same normality as they do in the classification of the Mallorca Golf Open in the absence of the decisive day on Sunday.
In a spectacular ‘moving day’, full of birdies and eagles (up to 13 were counted in 5 different holes), the average result of the 74 players who had made the cut was -2.62 strokes. An authentic barbarity at a collective level… from which the Spanish did not come out very well. only Rafa Cabrera Bello (-4) y Alfredo Garcia-Heredia (-3) played better than average, but the rest did not take the opportunity to ‘attack’.
Only 8 golfers were defeated in his particular battle against the course (par 71) of Son Muntaner, that this Saturday was more friendly than in the two previous days due to the total absence of the wind. the english Richard Mansell took advantage of the unbeatable conditions to sign a new field record with 61 strokes (-10) and ten birdies without failure slipping into the ‘Top 5’ and climbing up to 31 positions in the classification.
Yannik Paul vs. Ryan Fox, the big favorite
The one who also took advantage of the day of the movement was the German Yannik Paul with a card 62 impacts (-9) sprinkled with three eagles and error free. The display of the game and his luck (everything must be said) put him colder tied with the New Zealanders Ryan Foxnumber 25 in the world, third in the Race to Dubai and great favorite of the tournament before starting.
Fox bogeyed his first hole on Thursday and hasn’t bogeyed since.. He is proving to be the most solid player on the field, with three brilliant cards of 68, 64 and 65 for a cumulative total of -16, and with a victory in Mallorca this Sunday he will stalk Rory McIlroy at the top of a DP World Tour Order of Merit ranking that the Northern Irishman thought he had almost in his pocket with 1,000 point difference over Matt Fitzpatrick (which will be less than 600 on Fox).
Other prominent names this Saturday were Marcus Armitage, Renato Paratore y Connor Syme (all with -8), as Nicolai von Dellingshausen y Nicolai Hojgaard (with -7). Their outstanding rounds put them all in a Top 10 of the tightest and most internationalwith three Englishmen, three Germans and two Norwegians, among other nationalities, barely separated by 5 strokes.
Caizares brakes and a card in danger for Sebas García
Alexander Cizareswho came out in the penultimate game of the day, did not get to catch the ‘scorer’ dynamic and put together four scattered birdies with three bogeys to return for the second consecutive day an insufficient card of 70 hits (-1), after his great -6 on the first day for an accumulated eight under par that makes him drop to 23rd place.
“Today’s taste is bittersweettomorrow I have to do a good lap and release the pressure; I have a lot of noise in my head but I also know that my life is privileged And if I have to go to school [de clasificacin] to keep the card go without problem as I have done three of the last six years”, he commented in statements to the web portal Ten-Golf.
Further down the table are two Spaniards in the middle of a fight to get the complete rights of the game for the next season. The first 117 players in the Race to Dubai secure the prized card and, as of today, both sebas garcawho started the tournament in 115th place and has fallen to 118th, as Alfredo Garcia-Heredia (it has gone from 119 to 121) they would leave Mallorca with pending homework for the next week in the Portuguese Open (last scoring tournament for both).
A good Sunday will give them a boost in the points ranking and it would also help them that direct rivals such as the aforementioned Paratore and Von Dellingshausen, as well as Jazz Janewattananond y Darius Van Riel which ended today with eagle, did not have their best party ending in Son Muntaner. Every hit counts!
