Gonzalo Fernández Castaño (+1) shot a 72 n the second round of the Qatar Masters, fighting to the very last hole to make the cut, but he fell just short of the goal in the end. The Spanish golfer went to tee off on the 9th hole, par 5, last one of the round (he started on the 10th), one birdie away from making the cut and playing over the weekend. However, his fate was sealed with a bogey.
Up until then, the golfer from Madrid had worked hard and patiently to make up for lost ground, a bit inconsistent off the tee, but quite solid on the second shots, his greatest strength this week, without a doubt (27/36 regulation greens, 75 percent), on occasion from very complicated positions. And the truth is that not making the cut came down to the details. For example, he wasn’t especially accurate on the greens, having let a good handful of opportunities for birdie slip out from under his fingertips.
The Spanish golfer will now go into his third consecutive week of competition in the Kenya Open, held next week at the Karen Country Club in Nairobi.
