When Jon Rahm's victory in the Race to Dubai still rages, Pablo Larrazábal has managed to prevail in the first valid tournament for the 2020 season played in South Africa. The fifth victory of the Spaniard in the European Circuit has undoubtedly been the most epic and dramatic.

Larrazábal arrived with three strokes of advantage in the absence of the last 18 holes giving an authentic golf exhibition throughout the previous three rounds. However, it dawned with blisters and excruciating pain in his feet, especially in the right. "I woke up this morning and thought I could not play, I could not walk, nor go to the putting green ... " commented the Spanish visibly excited at the end of the tournament.

Perhaps the worst moment came in the 9th hole , when the pain even caused him to have to take off his shoes. Pablo signed some devastating 41 strokes and was relegated to two of the head of the tournament. "I thought that if Tiger had won a US Open with a broken leg, I could still do it here too . Besides, playing the worst golf of my career was only two strokes." Larrazabal chained four birdies in the last 9 holes, especially the three finals in holes 15, 16 and 18, with which he achieved the final triumph and leadership in the Race To Dubai 2020.

In the last hole, par 5, Pablo needed a birdie , his third blow left the ball even a meter from the hole and rage exploded in the Spanish player hitting his chest. "It has been a very hard years and I want to thank everyone who has supported me ." The last victory of Pablo in the European Circuit was in Germany in 2015, with this triumph in the bowels of the Kruger part in South Africa , Larrázabal breaks that drought of more than four years and climbs to the first position of the regularity race of the Circuit European.

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