The one who was number seven in the ATP ranking accepted the invitation of a sponsor and made his debut on the most important circuit in the world. In the first trick, he signed his card with an accumulated ten over par.
This year’s 3M Open has a special name in its ranks. This is Mardy Fish, former number seven in the ATP rankings and finalist of four Masters 1000, who after seven years of retirement from the professional tennis circuit, was playing his first official PGA tournament. He accepted a sponsor’s invitation and made his debut on the most important golf circuit in the world, sign a +10 card on the first turn.
In doing so, Fish became the first professional athlete from another discipline to make his PGA debut. since former Dallas Cowboys player Tony Romo entered the Fortinent Championship in 2019 . To date, the former NFL player has played in four tournaments on the North American circuit, but has never been able to qualify.
The participation of Nicolás Massú’s rival in the Athens 2004 final is mainly due to the fact that he has been competing in amateur competitions for several years. In these competitions he obtained excellent results among which winning the 2022 ClubCorp Classic and Diamond Resorts Tournament of Champions three times . These performances motivated a sponsor of the 3M Open to give him a special invitation to participate in the event. Some time ago, Jack Nicklaus praised the former tennis player: “He’s the best non-professional golfer I’ve ever seen play. “said the caption.
Of course, the first round didn’t end well for the current USA Davis Cup captain. He completed all 18 holes at TPC Twin Cities in Blaine, Minnesota with a total of ten over par, suffering from eight bogeys and one double bogey at a time when he could never overcome the demands of the field.
All in a tournament where he rubbed shoulders with PGA weight figures like Sungjae Im (-6), Rickie Fowler (-1), Hideki Matsuyama (+6) and Latinos Emiliano Grillo and Camilo Villegas.
In this way, Fish will come out on Friday very complicated in the table (currently he is last in the tournament) and with practically no chance of being able to extend his participation into the weekend. A start that disappoints him for no reason, since he would never have thought of playing a PGA event. Everything that has lived in its country of origin is learned.
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