The second round of the XXXV South American Pre Junior Golf Championship was closed with very good news, since Paraguay continues to lead in men’s teams and individual.
In teams, Paraguay continues at the top of the contest by adding the cards of Franco Fernández and Ezequiel Cabrera who are with 302 hits, +10.
In women’s teams, Peru continues to lead with Camila Zignago and Ariana Urrea with a total of 301 shots, +25 and Paraguay is eighth with Sol Mendoza and Victoria Livieres with 346, +54.
In individual, the strong wind that crossed from south to north on the 10th hole, from where the men left, in the lower part of the Paraguayan Yacht and Golf Club on the banks of the Paraguay River, complicated the competition leader, Paraguayan Ezequiel, from the start. Cabrera.
Cabrera had a bad start with boguey on holes 10 and 11, triple boguey on 14, recovering with birdie on 15 and 17 to close the first 9 holes with 40 hits, +4.
Already at the beginning of the final 9 holes, he achieved a new birdie at 1, followed by boguey at 2 and 3, but the expected recovery did not come to close the day with 81, +8, which added to what was done at the beginning which was 69, -4 to total in the 2 laps 150 +4 to maintain the first place in individual.
For his part, the defending champion of the title, also Paraguayan Franco Fernández, made the big jump from fourth place on the opening day to second after Thursday’s round.
Franco also suffered from the rigors of the strong wind and suffered a double boguey at the 10th hole and immediately reached his first birdie at the 11th; he boguey again at 12, but had a fairly regular performance to close out a great day with 75, +2 for a total of 152 +6 over par with Wednesday’s 77.
In his turn, Alejandro Echagüe, who had finished in 13th place at the start of the tournament with 80, 7 up this Thursday closed with 81, 8 more to add 161, 15 over par and make the jump to seventh place.
In women’s singles, the best Paraguayan player this time was Sol Mendoza with a total of 173, +27 to rank 13th, and Renata Abad and Victoria Livieres share 21st place, totaling 177, +33. The Peruvian Camila Zignaigo leads with 158, +12.
