After 36 holes, 14 birdies and no errors, Nacho Elvira rules the Soudal Open, the Belgian tournament held in the Antwerp forestin the Rinkven International that the Jewish community promoted in the early 80s. His second card of 64 strokes distanced him by one stroke from the Englishman, former Ryder Cup player, Ross Fisher.
Elvira, 37 years old, applied herself on the even holes in the second round of the flamenco course to get four birdies after having started the day on hole 10. Three more consecutive hits, between 3 and 5, allowed him to close Friday, like the previous day, with another card of 64 hits.
“It was very similar to yesterday. I hit very consistently and was very accurate with my putt,” Elvira confessed. “I’m very organized. Thank God the wind isn’t blowing much, it’s just raining, but it’s not very fun to play in the rain. Now it seems like it’s getting closer and I’m happy to be done,” he told the media. of the DP World Tour.
Other Spaniards who shone on this wet day were Sebastián García, who with 64 hits is six behind the Cantabrian and Adrián Otaegui, the golfer who tries to unseat David Puig from the Olympic Games, in a close fight with Jorge Campillo. The recent winner of the Volvo China Open only has two more chances in the European Open and the Scandinavian Open, having not qualified for the US Open, the tournament that closes the scoring period for Paris 2024.
