{"id":20471,"date":"2012-02-10T09:36:32","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T09:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/cabrera-bello-makes-a-big-splash-in-dubai-with-nine-birdies\/"},"modified":"2012-02-10T09:36:32","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T09:36:32","slug":"cabrera-bello-makes-a-big-splash-in-dubai-with-nine-birdies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/cabrera-bello-makes-a-big-splash-in-dubai-with-nine-birdies\/","title":{"rendered":"Cabrera-Bello makes a big splash in Dubai with nine birdies"},"content":{"rendered":"

The surprise has come in the emirate: Rafa Cabrero-Bello has become the leader after the first round at the Dubai Desert Classic after signing an impressive card of 63 strokes (-9). The Canarian finished his day with nine birdies and no bogey, and missed several more birdie chances, which, if he had holed them, would have meant a historic result. The Spaniard led by two strokes ahead of Marcel Siem and Scott Jamison. Cabrera-Bello played by textbook throughout the day and only missed one green, leaving even more birdie options that could have taken his round to a historic result. The Canarian finished his day with nine birdies and no bogey for an immaculate card. <\/p>\n

Alvaro Quiros, one of the favorites to win at the Emirates Golf Club, for his victories in Dubai in February and December last year, finished the first round with -2 thanks to a very good second nine holes in which the Guadiaro recovered from his bad start. Jimenez was tied with the Cadiz-born player by signing a round with four birdies and two bogeys. Of the other Spaniards playing in Dubai, Pablo Larraz\u00e1bal recorded a round of -2, and with -1 closed the day Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Olazabal, Jos\u00e9 Manuel Lara and Alejandro Ca\u00f1izares. <\/p>\n

The duel between the world’s number two, three and four players was the highlight of the tournament. Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy (-6), who made seven birdies in the last ten holes, and Germany’s Martin Kaymer (-6) with an eagle on the 18th, were in the lead, while England’s Lee Westwood totaled -3 in his first round. <\/p>\n

Cabrera-Bello stated that “just a second after making birdie on the 11th, I tried to calculate what I needed to make 59.” “Then I told myself I had to stop thinking about nonsense and not be so ambitious,” he added. “It’s a really good result, but in itself it doesn’t mean anything. You have to keep your feet on the ground and think how many leaders after the first round win a tournament. Not many,” he concluded. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The surprise has come in the emirate: Rafa Cabrero-Bello has become the leader after the first round at the Dubai Desert Classic after signing an impressive card of 63 strokes (-9). The Canarian finished his day with nine birdies and no bogey, and missed several more birdie chances, which, if he had holed them, would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_focus_keyword":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}