Jon Rahm, without margin for error in Sotogrande

After the intense rain of the last few days and with the arrival of the first rays of sun, the birdies They came out like mushrooms at the Real Club de Golf de Sotogrande. Jon Rahm,However, he was not up to the task of collecting a good handful. Only five, accompanied by three bogeys. Too little background, especially next to the American’s 63 hits Scott Brown or the 62 of French Julien Guerrier. Without forgetting the spectacular round of 64 of Jorge Campillo which makes him the best Spaniard in the tournament. “When I was hitting balls before going out I saw Brown’s -9 with the wind and I thought that he was nine shots behind the leader and that he still had to suffer to make par,” the Spaniard joked after his sensational card.

Campillo is in his ninth consecutive week competing, a golf marathon of 33 tournaments this year 2024 on both sides of the Atlantic. The Extremaduran was one of those DP World Tour players who benefited in 2023 from the agreement with the PGA Tour that granted places to the 10 best of the European season to access the American Circuit. And Campillo even left the PGA Tour at the beginning of the year to try his American dream. It showed solidity, but it did not complete the experience. With the arrival of summer and the important tournaments in Europe, he had to remove the leaves. Europe or the United States? The earth pulled more.

Right now Campillo defends his position among the 60 best in Europe. To qualify for the last two playoffsneeds to secure its place in the year’s tournaments. The regular circuit concludes this week and next in Korea, to make way for the two playoffs finals, where Campillo hopes to be. The best Spaniard of the tournament claimed eight birdies without error, to place third, two strokes behind Guerrier and one behind Brown.

“In the end I was able to fix it”

Eugenio López Chacarrawith -4, was the second best Spanish. And that Madrid native wanders with his head down this week in Sotogrande, after the public announcement of Sergio Garcia. The Fireballs captain has confirmed that he does not have him in his team for the next LIV season. So now he is looking for a new destination and if things go wrong, he could cling to the resource of having to spend a year on the Asian Circuit. Alexander of the King o David Puig They are the next Spaniards on the board after finishing Thursday with -3.

Rahm’s 70 shots leave him in the top 40, eight shots off the lead. The Spaniard has not said his last word, but he has practically used up his entire margin for error and it is time to maintain the sensations of his final round. “I fought the round and in the end I was able to fix it. Happy to have finished well and to fight and to play the 9th hole so well, which gives me confidence for tomorrow,” explained the double winner of major.

The stratospheric 62 strokes of the leader Guerrier would have been a new record for the Real Club de Golf de Sotogrande, which will ultimately not be counted, since the organization has allowed the players to clean and place the ball due to the amount of water accumulated.