Jorge Campillo, the golfer who almost out of obligation entered into the PGATour adventure when at the end of 2023 He won one of the ten tickets that reward good work in the old European Tour, he found meaning in his bravery. He was fourth in the Myrtle Beach Classic, on the shores of the Atlantic, near South Carolina. A final bogey prevented him from achieving second place, where only golfers like Seve, Olaz�bal, Sergio, Rahm – all of them winners – and Miguel �ngel Jim�nez had reached in the PGATour.
Campillo, 37 years old, had no chance of victory, however. Chris Gotterup, a superb 24-year-old puncher, without pedigree, yet to be proven, he dominated before the last day with a four-stroke advantage and, despite starting with two consecutive bogeys, he immediately recovered with a sequence of birdie-eagle-birdie that aborted any dream He ended up winning by six strokes, the largest this season on the circuit, beating Scottie Scheffler in the Byron Nelson.(Results)
But the Spanish’s merit was to hold on. It started with one mistake and ended with another, but in between The rest were happy shots for Jorge, who even missed a couple of putts along the way. Three birdies, one of them, the 12th, with a 15-meter putt, saving two pianos, allowed him to finish with 70 blows, his worst card of the week.
He will not be able to play in this week’s PGA Championship, a prize that only the winner had, but he is approaching the top 100 in the world. and gets into the fight with David Puig and Adrián Otaegui in the Olympic classification with a month and a half left until the Paris list is closed, in addition to beginning to build the option to maintain circuit player status for 2025.
“I don’t think I’ll get into Colonial. This top 10 doesn’t get me there. I thought so. So I have to think. You’re not going to come here just for a week; I don’t know if it will. Yes No, I’ll probably go for the Midwest. That’s what I like anyway, the Midwest, which I studied in Indiana,” he explains.
