The last opportunity to repeat the Olympic experience of Jorge Campillo, which involves reaching tenth place At least in the Volvo Scandinavian, a mixed tournament of the LET and the DP World Tour, it had a happy start for the golfer from Cáceres. The 68 shots he shot, five shots behind the leader, the Swede Sebastian Soderberg, momentarily placed him in that place, on a Thursday in which Rafa Cabrera Bello, who is beginning to get into tune by repeating brilliant laps one after another, also placed himself in the same position.
Campillo, five birdies and one bogey, was the only one of those trying to unseat David Puig from the old European Tour which raised an opposition from the beginning. Nacho Elvira and Adrián Otaegui, both with 73, fell to 84th position and will have to fight to make the cut. The tournament, the only one that unites men and women – starting from the red tee – in the same classification, had as the most outstanding golfer the also Swedish Linn Grant, fifth with 67, like the Irish Laura Walsh.
Puig, for his part, plays this week in Houston, where LIV Golf has stopped since Friday. The one from La Garriga He will still have a chance at the US Open if Campillo passes him. Also, although more complicated, since he must be among the first two in the big one that closes the Olympic classification, his teammate in the Fireballs Eugenio López Chacarra will have it. Jon Rahm, for his part, is trying to achieve the first victory of the season at the Golf Club of Houston.
