Adrián Otaegui has achieved a spectacular victory in the Volvo China Open, with a final round to remember, with seven faultless birdies, which catapulted him to the top of the leaderboard.
Adrián Otaegui thus becomes the first Spanish golfer to add this year 2024 a victory in the DP World Tour, professional circuit where the Basque player already accumulates five titles that began in the Saltire Energy Paul Lawrie Match Play 2017 and continued in the Belgian Knockout 2028, the Scottish Championship 2020 and the Estrella Damm Andalucía Masters 2022.
A professional since 2012, the Basque player soon found himself at the top of the rankings in a tournament affected by a heavy storm that hit the Hidden Grace GC course in the small town of Shenzsehn.
The competition was reduced to 54 holes, the last 18 played in two tee-offs and in groups of three to speed up a tournament where Adrián Otaegui has shone, despite the difficulties, with his own light.
The Basque golfer shot 67 and 66 in the first two rounds, two brilliant results supported by a solid game that generated a torrent of birdies, to the point that a bogey on the 18th hole of the second round is the only mistake of an immaculate performance.
However, the best was yet to come, an exceptional last round where the birdies were making their way into the card in spurts, four in the first round (holes 2, 4, 8 and 9) and three more in the second (holes 13, 16 and 17), seven in total that turned the classification in his favor despite the strong competition from his main rivals.
Among them, special mention should be made of the Swedish Sebastian Soderberg, who at times shared the lead with the Spanish golfer. The excitement reached its highest levels on the Nordic player’s last hole, with Adrián Otaegui impatiently waiting in the clubhouse for the outcome of Soderberg’s round.
The pressure, immense, seriously affected the Swedish golfer, who got into trouble on a final hole where he made a double bogey that put Adrián Otaegui’s new DP World Tour triumph on a platter.
Of the rest of the Spanish representatives in this Volvo China Open, the most outstanding have been Santiago Tarrío and Iván Cantero, placed 27th and 24th.
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