[SPORT] Sergio fails the cut in the Byron Nelson after starting on Friday in T7 and leaves the Navy without full

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A weak round from Castellón prevents him from accompanying Rafa (T22) and Jon (T40) in a championship that Sam Burns leads with solvency
Sergio García Country Club. Photo OpenGolf.es
The one from Borriol says goodbye to the tournament at the first change after a fateful Friday. Photo: OpenGolf.es

We will continue on the PGA Tour without being able to count on a full Navy this season. And that the first round of Byron Nelson left us with many possibilities after seeing the exhibitions achieved by both Rafa Cabrera Bello (71 strokes, -9) and Sergio García (75 strokes, -4) who, together with the result presented in the first 18 holes by Jon Rahm (69 strokes, -7), encouraged us to see a beautiful fight of the three to integrate into the high zone of the event. However, the 75 signed by the Borriol athlete a few hours ago ruined this opportunity and leaves us with the Gran Canaria and the Biscayan as the only Spaniards in the field.

And it is that from the beginning Sergio's round showed clear signs of exhaustion. He started with the bogey of the 4 after missing a putt of just two meters and, although he corrected immediately with a birdie in the 5, two errors at the end of his first nine flags put a shocking +2 on Friday that put him out of the virtual cut. . A situation that, far from being solved, was maintained over time with the two successes and the two errors in the first five flags of the restart. What's more, a new bogey in another par 3 like the one on 17 left everything seen for sentence with a -4 overall.

A scoreboard with which Jon Rahm started the day, and which he was able to improve to still give himself a chance to attack the top ten places this weekend. And it is that the León de Barrika began its round like a rocket, getting four hits and a single error during the first part of its route and confirming the numbers only a few minutes later after solving the two bogeys of 1 and 4 with the hits in 7 and 9. Thus, Jon is in the Top 40, just two hits from the numbers presented by a Rafa who has not been able to continue his great first day on the grass at TPC Craig Ranch.

The islander won the game to the country, yes, but he had to work beautifully. And it is that, after his error of 4, he had to become strong to take advantage of his encounter with the pairs 5 and achieve birdies in the 5, 9 and 12. At that time he was with negative double digits, just one impact from the Top 10, but a final error in 16 delayed him to the Top 22 and is far from a podium led by an iron fist Sam Burns (62 strokes, -17), who ten birdies without errors allow him to lead by two impacts to Swede Alex Noren (64 strokes, -15).