Rocco Repetto (-6) is fully in the fight for victory at the Challenge de Cádiz. The golfer from Málaga has delivered a second card of 72 strokes this afternoon at the Iberostar Real Novo de Sancti Petri and has placed himself in third position, just four strokes behind the leader Quim Vidal (-10). It is his 22nd round this year if we count the Alps Tour and the HotelPlanner and only on four occasions did he play over par.
There is no better indication of how well a golfer’s game is calibrated. When it takes a lot of effort to go over the course par. Today he had a trial by fire. After nine holes, he was three over par for the day. The day was getting complicated, and his mind was wandering. It’s not that the cut was in danger, but the lead was getting very far away.
It was right then that one of those brutal surges from Repetto emerged. Those moments when he starts playing under par as if there were no tomorrow. If he has shown anything in this first year as a professional, it’s that he doesn’t get dizzy when he starts making birdies; on the contrary, he enjoys it and keeps going forward. There is his round of 62 strokes last week in the Alps or the 64 with which he opened his season in Egypt. He is a man of great rounds.
Between the 10th and the 12th, he signed a partial of four under par, chaining a birdie, an eagle, and a birdie. Plis, plas. That’s how you turn around a bad day. That’s Rocco Repetto’s golf. In fact, he also has his B-side. Sometimes he struggles to get out of bad dynamics, although that was not the case today. Of his four rounds over par this year, three have been over 76 strokes.
Be that as it may, this 22-year-old from Málaga is in the second tournament of his career on the HotelPlanner Tour. In the first one, two weeks ago in Fontanals, he did not make the cut, but he delivered two cards of 70 and 70 strokes, and now he is already in the battle before the weekend. He has won in the PGA of Spain, he has won in the Alps, and the next ground to conquer is the HotelPlanner Tour. Certainly, he is a player without any complexes.
