In the middle of the desert, on pleasant night even when they finished playing, that the thermometer pointed 18 degrees while click He assaulted the first day of the first course tournament.
It was a rare sensation to play under the more than 1,000 lights that illuminate the 18 holes of the Riyahd Golf Club, on the outskirts of the Saudi capital. Also in the routine in the morning. The players spent it between the gym and the room, as if they were touched on the afternoon shift of other circuits. The bad thing is that they were both, have eaten and still missing four hours to start the game. Luis Masaveu (22 years old), he no longer knew what to do and went to throw balls at that time. Everyone killed as he could. The premiere was not bad to Benjamin of the Fireballs: 72, the pair.
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A shot, without sunlight, the golfers released the adrenaline and hit the first blows. The Rahm, Hatton, Surrat and McKibbin mixture is an explosive quartet. Two contrasted and two emerging stars. They are the best league team long. It was a symphony of coral golf and took seven blows to the latter. An exhibition only distracted by the Polish Adrian Meronk, the golfer who seems to try to direct the movement of the ball with the tongue, leader with 62 blows, after 10 birdies. He beat Sebastián Muñoz for two and three to Lee Westwood, the veteran English (52 years), who like the Backstreet Boys, Friday’s musical closure, is back.
The legionaries moved in block, like a command. First McKibbin, the last to reach LIV, who put it from the outside with a chip in Eagle 3. Subsequent the Norwegian boy with a 65 that made him third. Then Hatton (66), to which the putt deprived him of a scandalous card. Then Caleb Surrat charged (66), an interesting golfer and who has grown a barbarity. Finally, Jon.
Barrika had a hard time getting dark. The first Green passed from just 70 meters and even committed a bogey in 7, a torque 3. But it was singing, completed six birdies, and ended 67, after playing luck 18 (Par 4) in which He tried to get a blow to Green, the ball went very to the right, but bounced in the stands and fell into the sand. He saved the pair.
Sergio García, from more to less, signed 68 blows one more than David Puig (67), this one on a Thursday without failures. The Barcelona is still in a state of grace and played a fissure golf.