His face changed and he smiled, greeting the public and celebrating it as it deserves. Not every day one closes his participation in a Grand Slam like that. Adri Arnaus said goodbye to the 150th edition of the British Open signing an eagle-2 on the 18th hole after hole a putt of about 15 meters.
“What a final, it was the only thing because what a day…” , he commented in a low tone from Moià after signing his card and greeting his friend Pau Gasol.
Adri Arnaus, statements
Arnaus did not improve positions in the classification but ended with this stroke of genius to deliver a card to par (72) and 289 (+1) in total in what was his second British.
The Catalan highlighted this final as the “best moment of the week. It’s something you think of as a child, doing something special on this last hole and we’ve enjoyed it. The day hasn’t been brilliant, it hasn’t been the great lap I wanted but there it is.
Putting a fifteen-meter putt has had a prize”, affirmed Adri positively in the mixed zone. The professional who lives halfway between Dubai and Girona, and who will now enjoy a break of several weeks -among other things to prepare for the ‘Fans de Adri Arnaus’ tournament at the Moià golf club- “to recharge his batteries”, acknowledged who leaves the Open “with a backpack full of learning”
Adri has drawn positive conclusions from the Open. “You have to polish several things to be higher in this type of tournament. My feeling is that my game is made for courses that are so prepared and in extreme conditions, with some implausible flags.
With wind it would be playing spicy and it is a style of golf different,” he added. Arnaus always escapes to these fields in Scotland to train them “because they are not in the Spanish DNA” Today he flies to Catalonia.
“Now I need to rest and I will be back at the end of August for the European Masters at Crans, the PGA at Wentworth and the tournaments in Spain,” he concluded. At the point, however, he looks to get into the top 50 of the world ranking at the end of the year to guarantee himself an invitation to the 2023 Augusta Masters.
