The American Carson Young continues to lead this Friday the Puerto Rico Open 2023 golf tournament with fourteen under par (-14), a sum of the nine under par (-9) of the first round on Thursday and the five under par (-5 ) obtained today at the Grand Reserve Golf Club in Río Grande.
Carson Young, results
He is followed by Paul Haley with ten under par (-10) who are in second position after rising five positions thanks to the fact that his round this Friday was six under par (-6). For his part, Puerto Rican Rafael Campos has an overall score of four under par (-4) and will be the only Puerto Rican present in the final two rounds.
The Puerto Rico Open, a tournament of the Puerto Rico Golf Association (PRGA) TOUR and part of the FedEx Cup, is one of the largest sporting events on the island and has the participation of 120 players from the PGA circuit.
This year, he has a purse of $3.8 million and 300 FedEx Cup points, with the first prize being $684,000. Puerto Rican authorities estimate that the tournament will have an economic impact of 10 million dollars on the Caribbean island.
Puerto Rico is an unincorporated territory of the United States of America, located in the northeastern Caribbean Sea between the Dominican Republic and the Virgin Islands. Following a popular referendum (defined as “non-binding”) in 2012, with 61.15% of favorable preferences, the local inhabitants chose to become a federal state of the United States: following this result (subsequently confirmed from a further electoral consultation held in 2017) an official request for the initiation of the legislative process was thus filed with the United States Congress which could transform the island into a State of the Union by 2025, to date not still approved.
Puerto Rico is an archipelago, consisting of the major island of the same name (the smallest of the Greater Antilles) and other smaller islands, including Mona, Vieques and Culebra. The capital is San Juan, which at the 2000 census had almost 848,000 inhabitants and reached 2,000,000 considering the metropolitan area.
Since the seventies the economy has experienced a strong increase, above all thanks to industry and tourism, being a very popular destination in the Caribbean, so much so that it deserves the nickname of Isla del Encanto (Enchanted Island).
