Second day, second 18 holes, second card 70 strokes, two low torque to total. To that repetitive cadence that leads to the high part of the classification has been embraced with force Beatriz Recari to reaffirm, next to Carlota Ciganda, like the most successful Spanish in the Estrella Damm Mediterranean Ladies Open that is celebrated in the Club of Golf Terramar.
"I keep going step by step, without believing it, without expectations because I haven't played for three months and that's a long time, but the strategy is going well, I'm not pressuring myself and the results are coming out. What's going to happen tomorrow? Well, I don't even think about it," said Beatriz Recari with an undisguised smile after getting her second 70 to settle in fifth place, four strokes away from the German Laura Fuenfstueck, a young golfer of 24 years with only one year of professional experience looking for a glory that, to maintain their performance, six under par, could find in Sitges.
In a curious repetition of what happened 24 hours before, Beatriz Recari turned her return into an authentic merry-go-round, a accumulation of sensations that, without this Zen mentality, could have caused havoc to the most painted. On the contrary, far from being discouraged, Beatriz Recari overcame a beginning with dramatic tints, four bogeys in the first eight holes barely compensated by a shy birdie.
The difficulties immediately moved the classification, with the Navarrese slipping without apparent brake more and more to the middle of the board just before facing his second lap, where the failures were non-existent and the successes, three, allowed him to recover the lost ground. "It is true that the key in the next two days is going to be in the last holes, although here, each one, has an enormous difficulty, with a rough style US Womens Open, "said Beatriz Recari while reviewing the list of results.
The German Laura Fuenfstueck has settled there, in the highest part, with an orphan curriculum of professional titles, but for the time being she is the only one who seems to have caught the trick to the convoluted problems she poses to all of Terramar's journey. Three under par in the first day and another three in the second, with four birdies and a bogey, makes it the goal to follow.
In addition to the interesting Spanish proposals, in the late afternoon, the brilliant Carlota Ciganda, who significantly improved her performance compared to the first day. The number 12 of the World Ranking held his particular fight with the vibrant course of Terramar, especially in the first three holes, where two bogeys caused general nervousness before redoing with courage in the rest of a lap plagued with successes.
Five birdies, with a particularly passionate one on the last hole, full of meaning, motivated by its indomitable winning character, allow Carlota Ciganda to aspire to a title that still has multiple candidacies. "I had a doubtful beginning, but from there I played much better than yesterday, with five birdies without failure that give me confidence for what's coming," summarized the Navarre with the satisfaction of having achieved a result that places it squarely in the select group of favorites.
The same also belongs to the Navarre Maria Hernandez, who adopted a dynamic identical to that of his partner Recari, duplication of results, in his case 71 that seat him in the fifteenth place.
As if this were not enough, the mimetism was such that Maria Hernandez, like Beatriz Recari, suffered so beautifully in her first holes to overcome bravura in the last, a mixture of suffering and relief that finally generated the desired result, well positioned to reach higher heights in the two remaining rounds of competition, where the spectacle and uncertainty are assured values.
Six Spaniards surpass the cut
It has been established, at the end of the second day, the mandatory cut that have surpassed 62 players, giving access to dispute the last two rounds of competition. Apart from the aforementioned Navarrese players Beatriz Recari, Carlota Ciganda and María Hernández, three other Spanish players have fulfilled their first objective before embarking on achieving the best possible classification from now on. In it they are the Balearic Luna Sobrón, the Galician amateur Marta García Llorca and the vallisoletana Carmen Alonso, who surpassed the barrier of the 5 on pair in which the cut was established.