Álvaro Veiga has won the first day of the Madrid Professional Championship by Grupo San Pablo, which started at the La Dehesa Golf Club, located in the Madrid town of Villanueva de la Cañada, with an impressive result of 62 strokes (-10).
The Galician player, affiliated with the Royal Golf Federation of Madrid, started the day with a bogey on hole 1, a par 4 of 414 meters with a dogleg to the right and considered the most difficult hole on the course.
But far from being affected by that initial mistake on a day that was expected to be hot but windless, he began to rack up birdie after birdie – including an eagle on the par 5 16th hole – and closed the total that puts him at the top of the leaderboard.
Carlos del Moral follows with a score of 65 (-7). The Valencian golfer made no mistakes and his seven birdies have put him three strokes behind the leader.
Juan Salama and Jacobo Pastor, both from Madrid, also remain at the top of the leaderboard with scores of 66 strokes (-6), and up to 25 players managed to hand in their cards with numbers in the red.
Tomorrow the second of the three days that make up the championship will be played and will establish the cut-off of the competition, set at the best 40 players plus ties.
The Madrid Professional Championship by Grupo San Pablo of the Royal Madrid Golf Federation is integrated into the TUMI Spain Golf Tour of the PGAe, the oldest professional sports association in our country.
SOURCE: Tournament Organization
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