Gonzalo Fernández-Castaño began the RBC Canadian Open with a 67, an excellent start, placing him in a position near the top ten in the American Tour tournament.
The Spanish golfer played a nerve-racking round of golf at the Royal Montreal Golf Club, with five birdies, an eagle and four bogeys. The best moment of the day was, precisely, when he made the eagle. Gonzalo landed an incredible shot. He sank it in the first hole from the rough,165 meters out, with a 7 iron. Fantastic.
From that point on, there was a little bit of everything during the round, although Gonzalo was left with the bittersweet sensation that he could have come out with an even better score if his putt were a bit more solid. The truth of the matter is that he let three putts escape from less than one meter away on the second nine holes (starting on the 10th), one for a birdie and two for par. Painful. Thus, the aftertaste isn't too sweet, although the finish was explosive once again with a spectacular birdie on the 9th, sinking the putt from two and a half meters away.
In the end, the final analysis was a positive one. His long game was on point, having caught more than seventy percent of the fairways and greens, his irons were solid, and he's now just two shots away from the provisional leader, Kyle Stanley.
