The Apulian starts well, it is a blow from the leader Bradbury: “I have grown a lot compared to last year”
Francesco Laporta should be an example for everyone, mentioned in motivational and cars growing courses. It is not an innate talent, he never had the easy way, he started from afar and built his entire career with work and sacrifice. After the first day of the Open of Italy that began yesterday at the Argentario is in second position (65 shots, -5), for him a Bogey and six birdies of which two in the last three holes, the 16th and 18th. Just that he smiles happy: “It was important to take a little advantage, because more winds are expected and the conditions could be more difficult. I am a different player than last year, I worked on the short game especially in the latter game. weeks.
Golden Ball
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Today Francesco will be rewarded with the Ball of Golden, the recognition that the Italian Association of Golfist Journalists assigns every year to those who have particularly distinguished themselves. Yesterday, perhaps also because it comes from Puglia and is used to playing San Domenico at certain temperatures, he was one of the few to play with long trousers. Once the Bermuda were rigorously prohibited on the race days, then the organizers of the European Tour began to make exceptions, now the permission to wear them is automatically granted when the temperature rises beyond thirty degrees. And yesterday at the Argentario there was probably not even needed to do who knows what measurements. The canic, however, brought well to ours because in addition to Laporta there is much other blue in the upper part of the leaderbord of the 82nd edition of our Open. In front of everyone is the Englishman Dan Bradbury (64, -6) who at the end of the tour confessed to having only two wishes: “Being a couple of hours in the air conditioning and then finding a place to eat a good pizza”. In second position he contains the Norwegian Halvorsen (65, -5), but then here is Dodo Molinari and Andrea Pavan. The Turin area after the wrist operation is playing at a level that surprises him too, he did not expect to return so competitive in such a short time, while the Roman who lives in Texas is back from a US Open who left some wounds, the fault of a score too high to be true (+19 in two turns). Yesterday at the Argentario he found his game.
Scalise and old pit
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Excellent day also by Lorenzo Scalise and Jacopo Vecchi Fossa, who are just a shot back (68, -2) in Molinari and Pavana. The boy from Reggio Emilia is confident of being able to repeat the good proof of the first day, above all because he thinks he has understood the secret of the Argentario path: “The field is not at all obvious. It is delicate and must be interpreted in every blow”. In fact, on the same tee shot, in some hole, there are players who use the drive, others the woods, still others the irons. Each makes its choice, none is the right one regardless. And it is the charm of this field. Old pit explains: “Here the strategy wins. It is not bad at all. I am happy with the performance. I started with a little tension, normal in an open in Italy. Then I took a good pace until the end. Being the leader of the Alps Tour I am certainly more peaceful than in the past”.
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