Barely nine months have passed since
Collin Morikawa
took a walk on the cliffs of San Francisco on the most humiliating weekend in
majors
history
. During the last PGA Championship, the American massacred Harding Park with laps of 65 and 64 strokes, an unusual event in the outcome of a tournament of this category.
Jim Richerson
, the PGA president whose pulse hadn't shaken to change the tournament venue because it was to be played on a
Donald Trump
field
, breathed a sigh of relief as Morikawa lifted the Wanamaker trophy.
2020 was already history and the protagonism, if the pandemic allowed it, would be the mythical scene of 2021, Kiawah Island, one of the beasts of the
portfolio
of designer
Pete Dye
, who, spurred by the cold Atlantic wind, already cries out for revenge. Richerson waits impatiently, as the players plead for mercy as they suffer in the early rounds of practice. The show starts from Thursday with only two Spaniards in contention;
Jon Rahm
and
Sergio García
, the lowest number in a major since the 2015 US Open.
"For our sanity, I hope we do not play all week from the
back
tees
," Rahm commented after his first contact with the field.
In total 7,876 yards or what is the same, just over 7,200 meters, the longest track in the history of the greats.
"From the 14th to the 18th hole, the shortest club that I hit the
green
was a 5 iron ... and I do not consider myself, precisely, a short puncher," warns the Barrika player, who will be out on Thursday with
Patrick Reed
and
Tommy Fleetwood
at 7:25 p.m. in mainland Spain.
"Long and difficult holes"
For his part, García arrives ready to get rid of his bad streak in
majors,
where he has not made the cut since The Open 2019. "In this field it will depend a lot on how they put it. Playing it these days from behind and with the wind that he is doing It is a very tough course, with long and difficult holes, and
complicated
greens
, "he said, with the extra motivation of someone who wants a place in the Ryder Cup team.
García will face the first two days to Kiawah Island with the world number one,
Dustin Johnson
, and
Shane Lowry
, current champion of the Open Championship, will be in one of the last matches on Thursday, from 20:09 in Spain.
The field, located in South Carolina, wrote an unforgettable story during the 1991 Ryder Cup, which the United States would win with several controversies and clashes between members of the two teams.
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