• Open de España.Bale does not miss the first day

From the first hour the traffic jam towards Carretera de Castilla denoted that it was not an ordinary Thursday. The summer of San Miguel had wanted to stretch in Madrid to warm the atmosphere of the Rahm, García, Cabrera-Bello even more ... and so up to 33 national names that were parading one by one by the three of exit of the hole 1 to 10 Madrid Club de Campo.

Once the first obstacle to reach and park was overcome, the appearance of hole 10 was more of a pilgrimage than a golf tournament. An image of Sunday a Thursday at 9:30 in the morning. Golf is more alive than ever . Maximum expectation was concentrated around the first stellar game; Jon Rahm, Rafa Cabrera-Bello and Adri Arnaus. And they did not disappoint; especially the Catalan Arnaus, who played his first official lap in competition in the jewel designed by Javier Arana and finished with a solid -6.

"Very happy with the first nine holes, the second round has not been as smooth , however I have said I can keep myself." The sequence of 29 strokes for his first 9 holes playing next to Rahm generated almost an event runrun. However, the second 9 (first of the Country Club) were complicated with a lap of +1 until ending in the 9th hole with a birdie putt that Arnaus himself celebrated as if it were Sunday and served to lift the trophy.

With 65 strokes, Arnaus is the best Spanish occupying the second place two strokes of the leader, Kristian Johannessen . The young Danish signed a 63-stroke card with which he tied the record of the Country Club placing his name next to the legendary Seve Ballesteros and the Argentine Eduardo Romero. Rahm concluded with -5, Barrika again showed that the game is left over and without starring his best golf climbed to third place tied among others with Rafa Cabrera-Bello.

Already in the afternoon it was Sergio García's turn, the field had been significantly complicated with respect to tomorrow's turn, harder and irregular greens and Sergio who signed a -2: "I hope things go better tomorrow and the greens are more settled to be able to subtract the leader of the tournament and improve positions in the classification, "he commented before attending the hundreds of fans who followed him, including a very special one, the Real Madrid footballer Gareth Bale, who accompanied him during his return and he had no qualms about attending to all the fans who asked him for selfies and autographs.

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