Jorge Campillo needs to play this Sunday the last round of the Volvo Car Scandinavian Mixed and do well to surpass in the world ranking David Puig and, therefore, provisionally obtain the second Spanish place for the Olympic Games, depending on what the Catalan does in the US Open next week.
Some will think that the first premise of the approach is ridiculous. How is Campillo not going to play this Sunday the last round. Well, the matter is not so clear. The weather forecasts are very bad. A dog’s day is expected. It will be very cloudy, with constant storms until the end of the afternoon, accompanied by a wind that will sometimes exceed 50 kilometers per hour. Crazy.
It is true that the official sunset in Helsingborg, the city where the tournament is held, is at 21.53, so from the time the star match comes out there is a margin of no less than eight hours and forty minutes until it gets dark to finish. The weather issue has to be very bad so that it cannot be finished, but the news from there is disturbing. What they say from Sweden is that it is not ruled out that the tournament will be reduced to three days.
If this happens, Campillo would already be practically without mathematical options to surpass David Puig in the world ranking. Right now, for the purposes of the points that are distributed, and where the girls do not count this week, Jorge occupies the tenth position tied with three players. With this result he would stay behind Puig by 14 hundredths. He would still have a remote possibility due to the adjustments of the world ranking. Being so minimal the difference, it would be necessary to see how many points of the last two years each of them loses and how they would be, as long as Puig misses the cut, with one more week of classification.
In any case, to put a little more pressure on Puig, Campillo would have to achieve at least a top 5, so that the young man from La Garriga does not simply need to pass the cut in Pinehurst next week, but do it a little better. Those accounts will be known once the Scandinavian and the Memorial are over. The minimum to have a mathematical option to surpass Puig this Sunday would be to finish tenth tied with a single player. Interestingly, if he were eleventh alone they would tie points. They would have exactly the same. In that situation, which would hardly be repeated at the conclusion of the US Open and which would be almost bizarre, Campillo would win the place because he has added more gross world ranking points in the last two years.
Finally, it should be remembered that Eugenio López Chacarra and Sergio García, if he finally enters the US Open, would also have their chances of getting into the Olympic Games. Chacarra would have to finish at least third alone to have a mathematical option, always depending on what Puig also does, of course, while Sergio would only be worth the victory or a second place tied with another player at most, to have some possibility.
More wood for the Spanish golf Olympic battle.
