The Navarrese player completed a great first day in Villa Padierna with a round of 67 shots (-6), only surpassed by the English Cara Gainer (-7).
Azahara Muñoz and Nuria Iturrioz do not lose sight of the top of the table (-4)
The Andalucía Costa del Sol Open in Spain has started as expectedwith the Spanish Armada spurred by the fact of playing in Spain and forgetting that the season has been very long.
From the Spanish group Carlota Ciganda has especially stood out, who has shown once again that she is not bluffing when she says that she loves playing for her country and that this fact motivates him especially. And the best proof of this is the return with which the Navarrese golfer has dispatched the course of Alferini Golf, in Villa Padierna.
Carlota began the tour with five pairs in a rowas if he were analyzing his rival, until on the 6th hole he signed his first birdie, which was followed by another on the 8th hole. However, in the second round he undid all the way he had walked by delivering a double bogey on the hole 10.
authentic cyclone
that result, far from discouraging her, it unleashed a veritable cyclone that began on the 13th hole and did not end until the 18th holewith a fantastic sequence of six birdies that resulted in a total of 67 shots (-6), a card that could only be surpassed by the English Cara Gainer, the first leader of the tournament.
The two Swedish candidates for the ‘Race to Costa del Sol’ Maja Stark and Linn Grant, in the first round
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“I think this is a field that requires a lot of patience. The important thing is to keep calm and I am very happy with how happy I have fought and fought in difficult moments & rdquor ;, summed up Carlota Ciganda.
The fans who gathered at Villa Padierna were also able to enjoy the game of the Swedish Linn Grant and Maja Stark, who shared a match with Carlota Ciganda and are immersed in their particular duel for winning the ‘Race to Costa del Sol’. At the moment, the former gets a slight advantage by signing 68 strokes (-5), one less than her compatriot.
Azahara Muñoz and Nuria Iturrioz do not lose combat
Before Carlota Ciganda closed her great match, Nuria Iturrioz and Azahara Muñoz showed their candidacy for the title with rounds of 69 strokes (-4).
In the case of the Spaniard, she was not discouraged by a double bogey on hole 15 that she defined as “a silly mistake& rdquor; and that she amended in the best possible way, with six birdies, for a round in which “everything has happened to me but in which I have also had a bit of luck, so she can be happy. I’ve made quite a few putts and I feel good.”
As to The malagueña, one of the local stars, was very regular, with only one bogey and a good streak with four birdies on five holes (15, 15, 16 and 17), in addition to the one achieved on hole 4.
A result that did not surprise him because “I have been training quite well. I didn’t really know how I was going to feel but once I started playing, the adrenaline helps a lot. I felt very good on the field and I hit the ball very well, so she couldn’t be happier.”
self-assured amateur
After the three best Spaniards of the day, Three other golfers appear at the top of the classification who do not cease to amaze wherever they goboth for his game and for his amateur status.
Cayetana Fernández and Carla Tejedo finished with identical rounds of 70 shots (-3) Paula Martín is only one hit away, in what is expected to be a beautiful fight for the first edition of the Celia Barquín Cup, the prize created to remember the ill-fated golfer and which will reward the best amateur player of this Andalucía Costa Sol Open of Spain.