The fourth and last round of Olympic golf at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics ended on the evening of this Friday, August 6, at the Kasumigaseki Country Club.
Colombian golfer María José Uribe reached the final phase of the Japanese Olympiad with a conglomerate of 220 strokes under par and par difference of +7, positioned in box 52 of the general ranking, in which she stayed for more than four hours in the heat of Tokyo, a city that registered temperatures of up to 28ºC.
On the fourth day of the competition, and in order to speed up its development, the tournament organization decided to launch several competitors simultaneously: some from hole 1 and others from hole 10 onwards, including in this group ‘Mariajo’, who had his first impact at 5:59 pm (Colombian time) together with the Puerto Rican María Torres and the Hong Kong woman Tiffany Chan, in group 16 of 20, to complete the total of 60 competitors seeking the Olympic medal. The Colombian wore a purple bib.
Already on her fourth day, the Santander golfer began registering a double birdie on holes 14 and 15, while on the 16th she scored a bogey.
Although it is difficult to reach the top in the top 5 and fight for a medal alongside Nelly Korda, Mone Inami, Aditi Ashok, Lydia Ko and Emily Kristine Pedersen, the Colombian managed to set one of her best records so far in the competition olympic.
When ‘Mariajo’ returned to the start of the Kasumigaseki Country Club Course to play his remaining nine holes, his records showed that he remained under par, except for holes 4 and 5, where he holed the ball in a bogey and had a birdie, respectively. In round 4 he had 70 strokes to par and a pair difference of (-1), exactly the same as in his round 3.
The general classification of women’s Olympic golf in Tokyo 2020 ended with the santandereana occupying position 52 of the ladder. The athlete finished the general with a score of 290 strokes and a torque difference of (+6).
Uribe’s balance in his career during the Olympics
The girl from Girona, trained at UCLA in the United States, plans to retire professionally after the Paris 2024 Olympic event. An injury took her out of competition and when she was getting ready to return, the coronavirus pandemic arrived. She also became a mother by giving birth to her son, Lucca, on January 3 of this year.
In dialogue with the newspaper El Tiempo, Uribe was emphatic that she wants to fight for something great and is not yet in her plans to retire at a professional level from this sport, with which in 2011 she won the title of the HSBC Brazil Cup, setting a record 66 strokes under par and torque difference of (–6):
2021 is not going to be my last year. I am going to compete in Tokyo and the rest of the year I am going to focus on my son. Already in 2022 I will start a full time campaign to go to Paris 2024. I have been in the LPGA for 12 years, I do not want to end with a season of only two pandemic tournaments: I want to end on the front door
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