Gonzalo Fernández-Castaño is back in action this week in the Web.com Tour Final Series. It's the Nationwide Children's Hospital Championship, tournament held on the Scarlet Course at Ohio State University Golf Club, the ultimate test designed by the legendary Alister Mackenzie and renovated ten years ago by Jack Nicklaus.
Gonzalo will go into the tournament with the satisfaction and peace of mind of having already completed his mission. The first major goal of the season accomplished. With his sixteenth place in the DAP Championship and ninth in the Albertsons Boise Open, the Madrid native has secured the PGA Tour card for next year. Now, he's in eighth place in the top 25 of the Final Series. However, there's no time to sit back and relax after having reached the main goal, he's got to keep fighting to finish as high up in the rankings as possible.
Fernández-Castaño will attempt to be the Number 1 of the Final Series, a privileged position that would open doors one by one to all of the tournaments in the PGA Tour for next season. Otherwise, according to his final place in the rankings, he'll have to wait to find out which tournaments he will have access to, as well as having to depend on the re-rankings.
It's a familiar scene for Gonzalo this week. He already played there last year (it’s the only course of the Final Series that is the same as last year) and he likes it alot. There aren’t as many birdies. It’s a very demanding test, because that’s how Nicklaus intended it to be with the idea that the young golfers from Ohio State could prepare themselves in the best way possible for their initiation into the world of professional golf.
Gonzalo will play in the first round today starting at 6:41 pm, Spanish time, with American golfer Zach Sucher and Canadian golfer Mackenzie Hughes.
