The Japanese Hideki Matsuyama, champion of the Augusta Masters in 2021, made an impeccable start to the Olympic golf tournament and carded a brilliant 63 strokes – 8 birdies and 10 pars – to position himself as the first leader.
Xander Schauffele, the recent winner of the British Open and arguably the fittest golfer of the moment, finished second in the standings, two strokes behind from the Japanese event.
A good start despite everything
David Puig flirted with Head but it ended badly
With regard to the Spanish participation in Le Golf National, always in danger, Jon Rahm managed to survive an irregular day and not lose sight of the head of the tournament scoring 67 strokes, four more than Matsuyama, and finishing sixth.
Rahm sniffs gold
El Leon de Barrica began his fight for gold by making an approach for eagle on the third hole, but then he made bogeys on the 7th and 8th holes, In the second round, he exposed the Thunder Box once again with a birdie on the 12th hole and another spectacular eagle on 13 and 14. But a double bogey on 16, after sending the ball into the initial water, put him somewhat away from the lead.
For his part, David Puig had a bad finish, making three bogeys in the last six holes, spoiling somewhat what looked like a good day, but he is in the fight with his -2.
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