Fernandez-Castano makes it two wins for Spain
BY Bruce Young | European PGA Tour | 2005 KLM Open | Wrap | 13 Jun 2005
Sergio Garcia provided a great moment for Spanish golf this morning when he won the Booz Allen Classic at the Congressional Country Club but just a few hours earlier another young Spaniard, Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano, was winning for the first time in his professional career at the KLM Open in the Netherlands.
The 24-year-old, who has been a professional for just nine months, gained his European Tour card last November via Tour School and in twelve events to date in his rookie season he had made just the five cuts although one had been when 6th in Italy. Clearly he is a player of promise but to win in your first season highlights something even more impressive.
Interestingly he is only ten months younger than Garcia but he is clearly a lot less experienced than his fellow countryman. Fernandez-Castano had made a good start to the event and was in joint second at the start of play today. A bogey at the first was hardly a good omen for the day but what followed certainly was. At the par four third he holed a seven iron and by the turn he had opened up a three shot lead.
There was hardly a challenge from back in the field although an eagle at the 12th gave Emerson a faint hope. Emerson would finish second with Paul Broadhurst continuing his recent resurgence to finish third.
Peter Senior, in his best European Tour finish for nearly five years, was 7th, Marcus Fraser 25th, Peter Fowler 47th, Adam Groom 55th, Brad Kennedy 65th and Wade Ormsby 75th.
The European Tour is in France next week for the Aa St Omer Open.
