Change at the top. Local player Isidro Benítez leads the standings for stage 9 of the IV Copa Prissa Professional Golf Tour presented by Maestro Dobel Tequila, which takes place at Club Campestre de Puebla, a par 72 course of 7,225 yards.
With a second round of 66 hits, for a total of 132, 12 under par, Benítez displaced Jorge Villar, also from Puebla, from the lead, who is in second position with an accumulated 136 hits, eight under field par.
“I feel very good, the truth is that I played very solidly, I rolled the ball impressively, I think I made a lot of putts, I am very happy, I am leading by four, it is an advantage that means something but we should not trust ourselves and we have to stay focused and enjoy the tournament”, said Isidro Benítez.
The member of the PGA Tour Latin America and champion of the Professional Golf Tour in the Campestre de Puebla in the 2019-20 season, had the courage to rescue some holes that were of the utmost importance for the closing of his tour.
“Today I had to be very patient, I hit a couple of bad shots that could have cost me, however, the putt was what definitely saved me, I shot it very well and thanks to that I had the opportunity to shoot six fewer”, added the 23-year-old lefty.
In the third place of the fair that distributes a purse of one million 300 thousand pesos and that is part of the DevSeries of the PGA Tour Latin America, the defending champion of the Prissa Cup, the Guatemalan José Toledo, was placed with a score of 137 hits, seven under par .
The champion of the Phoenix Open of the PGA Tour of the 2013-14 campaign, the American Kevin Stadler, shares the tenth position with 143 strokes, one less, while the Mexican legend Esteban Toledo, Carolina Rotzinger from Puebla and the representative of the Mexican Federation of Golf Juan Manuel Martínez, did not make the cut.
ProAm
The winning team of the ProAm of stage 9 of the Professional Golf Tour was led by the professional Pablo Rincón Gallardo and the amateurs Juan Aliseda, José Enrique Millet, Diego and Rodrigo Aliseda.
The second position went to the amateurs Juan Carlos Abraham, Carlos Couttolenc and Diego Abraham as well as the professional Emilio López. Finally, third place went to the team of the professional Gonzalo Rubio and the amateurs Daniel Salmorán, José Antonio Rosas and Daniel Salmorán Pacheco.
MGC
