The interesting present of Spanish golf has a future assured in the medium term with the crop of Generation Z players who are appearing. Ángel Ayora, from the public course of La Cañada, in Guadiaro, like Álvaro Quirós, once again certified on Friday that he is one of the top golfers that the national teams have produced in their latest installment.
Ayora, 20 years old, once again found another day inspired by the final of the European Challenge, the second division of the continent, to increase the distance after two days at the Alcanada golf club, in Alcudía, on a Friday moved by the presence of electrical equipment in the Majorcan skies.
The Spaniard shot 65 strokes, without bogeys, and is two ahead of the Norwegian Kristofer Reitan – driven by an eagle from the fairway of the 7th hole – and already five ahead of the Dane Rasmus Neergard-Petersen.
Ayora, on the second dayOctavio Passos
“I played just as well as on Thursday and I hope this streak continues for the weekend,” he told the tournament organization. “I hit it very well and only in the 12th I had a moment of stress, but I got a very good chip. I’m calm, also thinking about the possibility of winning the Challenge, but Neergaard Petersen is a great player and could shoot a round very low on Saturday or Sunday. So let’s see.”
In his first year as a professional, with the card obtained for next season in the DP World Tour, the Cádiz native is consuming learning stages in one gulp. He opened September by winning the Rosa Challenge Tour in Poland and now he has positioned himself well to lift the trophy in Mallorca and lead the final classification of the second category, something that only two Spaniards, Carl Suneson (1999) and Álvaro Velasco (2010), have done. achieved in history. Without being a success that definitively defines the stars, it is an achievement that is filled with big names like Tommy Fleetwood, Thomas Bjorn or Henrik Stenson.
Raised since he was 8 years old in La Cañada, represented by Javier Ballesteros, Seve’s son, he has always been a reference golfer in the lower categories, especially for his hitting. At the age of 10, Benjamin was champion of Spain, the first of a series of successes that has taken him to the springboard where he currently finds himself. With him, Luis Masaveu, Josele Ballester, Joel Moscatel and Jaime Montojo, Spanish golf has found a generation that already deserves to be ranked among the best in history. (Results)
