Hugo Santos leads Quinta do Peru PGA Open, the first tournement of the series PGA Portugal Tour 2013 that the professional portuguese golf association is organising until tomorrow at Quinta do Peru & Country Club in Azeitão.
The professional national champion (aged 32), finished the first round with 69 stokes, 3 under the par, having an advantage of 2 over António Rosado (2009 national champion) and 3 over Tomas Silva, ex amateur national champion, and Marcus Lester, EuroPro Tour player.
«It was a good round, the result was positive and I played well specially given the wind» said Hugo Santos, who was second place last year, behind Gonçalo Pinto, national absolute bichampion (amateur), who will struggle tomorrow to keep the title once he’s 12th place (tied) with 77 (+5).
The oldest of the Santos brothers finished the first 9 holes with a Par, with two birdies (holes 5 and 7) and a couple bogeys (6 and 8), and finished the back nine with 3 under the par, thanks to an eagle on hole 12 (Par-4), followed by a birdie on hole 13, with a bogey on hole 17.
Hugo Santos Tee Times Golf Order of Merit for the past 2 years, also won the Iberian swing of Jamega Pro Golf Tour last week.
Quinta do Peru PGA Open has 30 people enrolled and prizes of 5 000euros. Tomorrow they will play the second and last round, with the first group to begin at 08:00 and the last at 09:31.
The first round of Hugo Santos was really great! That was a good game for him..
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