The Copperhead course, at the Innisbrook, Tampa, Florida, is behaving as expected this week. It's a tough course, narrow, very strategic, where placing the ball well and having patience is a basic, necessary not to lose control of the disloyal greens. Gonzalo Fernández Castaño fought a merciless battle on Thursday and Friday, continually on the brink of the cut, birdie up, bogey down. In the end, it wasn't meant to be and he missed the cut for the weekend.
Gonzalo turned in a card for 73 shots after the second action-packed round. He made six bogeys and four birdies. He wasn't bad off the tee, having caught eight fairways, but he had more of a hard time with the shots to the greens, having caught nine. Copperhead demands its golfers to be at their best level of play and to have the confidence not to fall victim to its vicious web, and Fernández Castaño is precisely on his to way to reaching this state of mind.
Next week, the American tour will stop at Bay Hill, an ideal place for Gonzalo's game to fall into place once again. He had his best performance ever there on the PGA Tour, ending up in third place in 2013 and going up against Tiger Woods in last round of the tournament.
