Gonzalo Fernández Castaño will participate in the Barracuda Championship at the Montreux Golf and Country Club (Reno, Nevada), second category tournament of the PGA Tour due to the fact that it coincides with the World Golf Championship, but which could be of the utmost importance for the Spanish golfer in his fight to maintain the rights to play in the PGA Tour. And let’s not kid ourselves: no tournament in the American tour is truly second category when taking the quality and caliber of the golfers into consideration.
It's not the usual week because the tournament will be held according to modified Stableford regulations and the objective is to accumulate the most points under the following criteria: a birdie is two points; an eagle, five; albatross, eight. On the other hand, a bogey takes one point off and a double bogey or worse, three. Pars do not add, nor take away points.
Last year's winner, Geoff Ogilvy, finished with a total of 49 points, tournament record for this format. And the champions from previous years finished with 44 in 2013 (Woodland) and 43 in 2012 (Henry), due to which the reasonable goal in order to end up at the top on Sunday should be somewhere around the 40-point bracket.
Gonzalo will go out to play this Thursday starting at 12:33 pm (9:33 pm Spanish Peninsular time) together with Kyle Reifers and Alex Prugh.
