Ignacio Elvira (-18) secured his second DP World Tour victory by winning the Soudal Open in Belgium, a tournament in which he displayed exceptional form from the first round. On Sunday, a score of even par was enough to avoid a playoff against Frenchman Romain Langasque, Dane Niklas Norgaard, and Belgian Thomas Pieters, all of whom finished at -17.
The Cantabrian faced the final day with a juicy four-stroke lead over a quartet that also included Englishmen Ross Fisher and Joe Dean, and although he has not seen the birdie as much as in the previous rounds, he has managed to get into few problems to play with an increasingly reduced lead.
On the 18th, Ignacio Elvira sank a fine par—a wonderful, very long putt that hung in the air—and completed his second title after the Cazoo Open in Wales (2017). These victories add to his four others on the Challenge Tour between 2013 and 2015.
In the first two days, the eldest of the Elvira brothers had signed two rounds of 64 strokes, which were followed by a 67 in the third, a result marred almost only by a bogey on the 18th.
To this excellent news - the second Spanish victory in the DP World Tour in 2024 after the one achieved by Adrián Otaegui in the Volvo China Open - we must add the seventh place of Sebastián García with -15.
Good week for Joel Moscatel and Luna Sobrón
Another Spaniard with a chance of winning a medal this weekend was Joel Moscatel, who went into the final round of the Danish Golf Challenge five strokes behind Norway's Andreas Halvorsen (-18). The Catalan, winner of the Challenge de España a few weeks ago, dropped to tenth place with -12, a good result, as was Borja Virto's -11.
Meanwhile, Luna Sobrón (par) finished tenth in the Jabra Ladies Open, part of the Ladies European Tour, with a good 68 to finish, while Jorge Campillo (+5) missed the cut in the Charles Schwab Challenge.
WEEK OF MAY 20-26, 2024
DP World Tour
Soudal Open (May 23-26)
Rinkven International GC (Antwerp, Belgium)
Ladies European Tour
Jabra Ladies Open (May 23-25)
Evian Resort Golf Club (France)
PGA Tour
Charles Schwab Challenge (May 23-26)
Colonial Country Club (Fort Worth, TX, USA)
Challenge Tour
Danish Golf Challenge (May 23-26)
Odense Eventyr Golf (Odense, Denmark)
Champions Tour
KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship (May 23-26)
Harbor Shores Resort (Benton Harbor, MI, USA)
Alps Tour
Lacanau Alps Open (May 23-25)
UGolf Lacanau (Nouvelle Aquitaine, France)
