Good premiere for Fernández-Castaño in England

The Madrilenian signed -3 in the first round. He was 20th, four strokes behind the Englishman Richard Bland, leader with -7. Campillo, who was in the Games, -1.

The Englishman Richard Bland became the first leader on Thursday at the end of the first day of the Cazoo Classic (England), belonging to the European Tour, after delivering a card with 65 strokes (-7). Bland, 48, winner of a European Tour championship, had an excellent performance on the first day, with a total of seven birdies.

In second place and a stroke from the lead, England's Jordan Smith and Dale Whitnell are tied along with Americans Sean Crocker and Sihwan Kim. The best Spaniard was Gonzalo Fernández Castaño, who presented a card with 69 strokes (-3) and was four strokes behind Bland. The Madrid golfer got six birdies, on the other hand, he committed three bogeys in the second part of the course: on holes 11, 16 and 18.

The rest of Spaniards who also completed the 18 holes were Jorge Campillo (-1), who recently participated in the Tokyo Games, Álvaro Quirós and Sebastián García Rodríguez (Par), Emilio Cuartero, Carlos Pigem and Pep Andamientos (+1), and Alejandro Cañizares (+2) .

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