Sand bromea in Germany with that Mallorca is almost like one more province of the Central European country. A kind of Mediterranean ‘land’, to which thousands flock on their summer vacations or as golden retirement destination.
Yannik Paulof course, you should start looking for a house to move to the island that has given him his two greatest successes as a golfer to date: last November he achieved the DP World Tour card, remaining second in the Challenge Tour Grand Finalplayed at the T-Golf Club in Calvi, and this Sunday he has debuted his record among the elite of European golf with a victory on the Son Muntaner routein Palma.
At 28 years old, Yannik’s debut in the first division of the European Tour has been brilliant. He already was before this victory, thanks to a second place in the Soudal Open in Belgium and four other ‘Top 10’, in an extremely strong season for a rookie with only three missed cuts out of 24 tournaments (one of them being the US Open, its debut in a major).
This victory guarantees his playing rights for the next two seasons, in addition to catapulting him from 43rd place in the Race to Dubai to the ‘Top 20’ of the Order of Merit. With that high he ensures his presence in the final tournament of the season, the DP World Tour Championshipto which only the fifty best golfers of the year have access, and presents himself as a great player to follow closely… not to be confused with his twin brother Jeremy Paulwhich plays in the Korn Ferry (second division of the PGA Tour).
Golf roller coaster in Son Muntaner
Paul came out colder to the tee of the first hole with a cumulative result of 16 under par… and ended up winning with a total of -15! In a maddening day for the players, due to gusty wind and difficult flag positions to plan the organization of the tournament after the saturday birdies and eagles festivala card of 72 hits (+1) was enough for the German to win.
After the 11th hole, he commanded the classification by two strokesbut the English comeback Marcus Armitage, together with two of his mistakes on 14 and 15, turned the situation around. The German punctured the ball on the 16th tee with two hits from his head, and yet his immaculate final par-par-birdie they gave him a bizarre victory over the sinking of his rival (+4 in those three final holes).
your countryman by Nicolai Von Dellingshouse and the English veteran Paul Waring They waited at the clubhouse, crossing their fingers that their accumulated results of -14 would be worth them to play a possible three, four or five cushion playoff. But Yannik denied them all hope by sinking a ten-foot final putt from the collar of the green to close out the win and raise your arms to the sunny sky of Palma de Mallorca.
Sebas García leads the ‘makeup’ of the Spanish
This Mallorca Open 2022 has not been a propitious tournament for Spanish golfers as it was last year’s edition with three representatives of the ‘Armada’ among the top five. Jorge Campillo y Pep English tied for second place, while sebas garca It was fifth… leaving homework to do to keep the card as it has also happened this year.
The man from Madrid arrived at Son Muntaner in 115th place in the Race to Dubai and a ‘Top 30’ (approximately) would have saved him a lot of calculations ahead of the Portuguese Open next week, the last scoring event on the calendar. The good results of some direct rivals they make him fall to position 117, just the one that marks the cut between retaining or losing full game rights for next season.
They are round of 68 strokes (-3) this Sunday gives him some air, but he will still have to row and pass the cut (and something else) in the neighboring country. The Galician also said goodbye with three under par Santi Tarro and the Andalusian lvaro Quirswho with an accumulated score of -7 (and four rounds under par) finished as the most outstanding Spaniard in thirtieth position.
The worst unemployed of this windy Sunday in Palma was Alfredo Garcia-Heredia (+5) , who missed out on scoring valuable points in the Race to Dubai in his fight to keep the card. Right now he is 123rd in the annual ranking and will have to achieve an outstanding result in Portugal (close to the ‘Top 10’) to achieve their goal.
If you don’t get it, you’ll have to find your ‘partial letter’ for 2023 in the playoffs of the ‘sorting school’ next November, to which they have already been definitively relegated Alexander Cizares y Pep Angls.
