Gonzalo Fernández Castaño put his game face on and is ready to play seven consecutive weeks of golf, granted he makes it to the US Open in the preliminary round that he’ll participate in on June 8th (he’ll play three tournaments for sure before the second ‘major’ of the year, and another three afterward). This intense stretch will begin tomorrow, Thursday, at TPC Four Seasons Resort (Irving, Texas), where one of the classics of the PGA tour will kick off, the AT&T Byron Nelson.
The objective couldn’t be clearer: to give his precarious situation the push it needs in the FedEx rankings, where he currently stands at 186º with 77 points. The Madrid native has been mentally preparing for the challenge, evidently worried, yet without having lost a single second in despair.
He’s not daunted by the fact that he has to play so many weeks in a row either. It’s nothing new for him. In fact, it would be difficult to repeat what he did in 2014 again. Exactly 12 months ago, May 29th 2014, he began a very long consecutive stretch, having played in thirteen tournaments in just fourteen weeks, from the previously mentioned date until September 1st, nine of them in a row.
Fernández Castaño will go out to play in the first round of the Byron Nelson at 8:40 in the morning together with Australian golfer Marc Leishman and American golfer Hudson Swafford (3:40 pm, Spanish Peninsular time).
