We can vouch for the fact that it’s true: Alejandro Cañizares (-4) handed in his beautiful scorecard of 68 strokes on this first day of the Cádiz Challenge and he really didn’t know how many he had made. He knew above all two things: that he had putted like the very angels and that, thanks largely to that, he had finished under par…
It’s a story repeated a thousand times, but that doesn’t make it any less interesting. Intriguing. A high-level golf player who has been having a hard time lately, after also suffering a bothersome neck injury that almost had him stopped for six months last year; a player who, to top it all off, the day before the tournament starts, can’t find a single halfway good feeling in the Pro-Am and is almost still looking for that something that can help him turn his game around…
A high-level golf player who, in short, goes out to compete today and says to himself: “come on, stop with the stories, stop putting pressure on yourself, play golf, you can’t have forgotten, go ahead…”. This has been the case with Cañi, who today has left the Iberostar Real Golf Novo Sancti Petri worn out, but with a smile from ear to ear. His reflection, minutes after signing the scorecard (SEE VIDEO), is priceless. His 68 strokes allow him to occupy the fifth position, four strokes behind the leader James Nicholas (-8).
By the way: long before Scottie Scheffler started working with Phil Kenyon, Cañi had already put himself in the hands of the putt guru. That’s why, even though the English teacher has a long queue at his door and can’t attend to everyone, he always finds time to lend a hand to one of the old guard, one of his first clients. “If there’s one thing I’ve done well during my career, I think, it’s putting. But not in recent times. So this week I asked Phil for help at the last minute and it’s clear that we’ve found something”, the Spanish player concluded. And tomorrow, what else can be done, start again, without taking anything for granted or lost.
