In a scenario of great memories for Spanish golf, the Hong Kong Golf Club, where Miguel Ángel Jiménez won four times and José María Olazábal and José Manuel Lara also did, Luis Masaveu appeared in the world society with a great return on the first day of the city that adhered to China in 1997. With 65 blows, five under par, he stayed two blows to the inspired Paul Casey 63.
The Benjamin of the Fireballs, 22, on a day of covered sky, moisture of 81 percent although they announce Sun for the remaining two days, played with the fluidity of any day in the moral in La Moraleja, his club in Madrid. Surely from the Tee, where the ball breaks, gave a good game concert to signing its best professional return. It was the Spanish golfer of the day for the two Eagles who took the tour, a milestone in a difficult field, that forces the strategy to think.
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His performance was as outstanding as Sergio García’s. In 40 days he will be in Augusta playing his great number 100 and the signs that he broadcasts this season have dusted the magic of his sticks and the Green. He started in the star match with Jon Rahm and Joaco Niemann. And he did well. With two Birdies in the first three holes. But then he suffered during a long section – two Bogeys – until in Hole 10 he hooked again.
He played the second nine holes with a fabulous determination., He packed five more Birdies and planted in the same 65 that Masaveu, Chie Po Leeh, Martin Kaymer, Sebastián Muñoz and Peter Uihlein. If the Fireballs do not lead the team classification – they are a blow to the crushers and the torque – it was because Abraham Ancer, which is usually a solid value, did not fall off the torque (71). David Puig, as always, knew how to do (68) J, although there were too many errors on his card: three bogeys, all in pairs 3.
Rahm, meanwhile, had to embocae a four -meter -down putt to endure under the scoreboard. He had started brilliant, with a chip from outside in hole 1 for Birdie, but the advantage was lost immediately and from there his game did not reach the brilliance that he usually distills.