Luna Sobron Galmes couldn’t have dreamed that a tie for 28th could be so eventful. One day after the 27-year-old Spaniard watched her push cart roll into a water hazard at the Epson Tour season-opener, she aced a par 4 at the Florida’s Natural Charity Classic.
Sobron Galmes didn’t see her ball roll into the cup on the par-4 fifth at the Country Club of Winter Haven. But she heard the cheering after her beautifully struck 3-wood found the bottom of the cup from 247 yards out.
“It’s impossible to make it from that distance,” said Sobron Galmes, “it’s crazy.”
The early ace, her second in competition, propelled Sobron Galmes to a final-round 71. She finished 2 over for the tournament, 11 back of winner Kum-Kang Park. Sobron Galmes tied for eighth last month at the Magical Kenya Ladies Open on the Ladies European Tour.
Sandwiched in between Sobron Galmes’ two 71s was a soggy second-round 76. On the par-4 eighth hole Saturday, Sobron Galmes parked her push cart in front of the green while she finished up her par. While she stood at the back of the green, a gust of wind pushed her trolley into the nearby water. Sobron Galmes played the two back-to-back par 5s that followed in four over.
“What do you do after playing the worst day in your life in a golf course all wet because your trolley and clubs (fell) into the lake,” Sobron Galmes wrote on Instagram, “and after your ball hits a tree and doesn’t come down? Two birdies for making the cut. Never surrender!!!”
Little did she know that it would only get more interesting from there.