David Puig, 23, took a considerable leap last year. It was his second professional season and although in the LIV it cost him, especially in the statistics of Green in regulation, his actions outside the circuit in which he defends the colors of the Fireballs was highly helpful. He played all the greats except the masters, although not at the desired level, and between October 2023 and February 2024 he won two international series of Asian Tour, in addition to losing in a tiebreaker in Macao.
This was translated into the second place to enter the Paris Olympic Games and in an escalation in the world ranking, which has already placed him in 77 -less than two years was 1,000 -which leaves him with foot And a half in the PGA Championship, the great that shows the most condescension with the new circuit as it shows that it has invited Sergio García, and to which the first 100 of the World classification.
“The last two tournaments that I have played, both in Ras al Khaimah and in Bahrein I am happy for the results. I have been very close to that first victory in the DP World Tour,” says the Garriga, which is still excited about Minimum possibility that he could play the Augusta Masters in April. “Technically it could still be within reach, although I think I will only play one more tournament than they score for the world ranking that will be Macao, of Asian Tour. I hope that with a victory I would use me to enter the top 50 and If not, I hope to do well here and get the attention of Augusta’s. “
Puig, Jon Rahm’s discreet neighbor in Arizona, with whom he sometimes trains as if he were an older brother now attends the arrival of Luis Masaveu, 21, which takes away the condition of Benjamin. Age affinity surely attracts complicity. “At the moment he has not asked me a lot. He is a superlisto kid, he knows very well what he does, very hardwork good”.
The new experience of playing at night -“I had not done it in my life” -, it is also a challenge for the ‘Fireball’. “It is different. The perception of how you see life, judging certain con To face it. “