In Bermuda, another good performance by Francesco Molinari. After the second round of the Butterfield Championship, a PGA Tour tournament, the Turin native climbed from 15th to 6th position with a score of 134 (68 66, -8). At half-time, the Italian is four shots behind the American Justin Lower, alone in the lead with 130 (65 65, -12) ahead of his compatriots Robby Shelton and Ryan Moore, both 2nd with 132 (-10). In a leaderboard all stars and stripes, with Sam Ryder and Kevin Kisner in 4th place with 133 (-9), the Piedmontese smiles.
Bermuda, results
Chicco Molinari with a round of 66 (-5) made six birdies, with one bogey, recovering nine positions. The event, now in its sixth year, has a prize pool of $6,900,000 (1,242,000 is the first coin). For many players in the field, this is a crucial competition to try to confirm their “card” to play on the top American men’s circuit also in 2025. At the end of The RSM Classic (November 21-24 in St. Simons Island, Georgia), in fact, the best 125 of the FedEx Cup will secure a full one, while those up to 150th position will conquer one with fewer chances of playing.
Bermuda (English: Bermuda, /bəˈmjuːdə/2 and Islands of Bermuda3) is an archipelago of North America, an associate member of the Caribbean Community and a British Overseas Territory. It is located in the Atlantic Ocean, off the east coast of the United States. Its inhabitants are called Bermudians. The economy of the archipelago is largely based on finance because of its status as a tax haven.
The Bermuda archipelago is named after the Spanish navigator Juan de Bermúdez who discovered it in 1515. England established (unofficially and by accident) the permanent colony in 1609 by the Virginia Company of London (or “Virginia Company”), following a shipwreck, and founded the first capital, St. George’s, in 1612, when Bermuda officially became an English colony (first named “Virginiala”, but immediately renamed “Somers Isles”) of England, administered by royal charter by the London Company of Virginia, which formed a “sub-company”, the “Company of London for the Plantation of the Somers Isles” (or Somers Isles Company) which took over the administration from 1615. The first slaves (a Native American and an African, or of African descent) were brought in 1616, but the system of Indentured servitude that existed until 1684 meant that slavery was not as common as in other colonies. Bermuda sided with the Crown during the English Civil War and became the first English colony to recognize Charles II as king, forcing its independent parliamentarians into exile, although it eventually recognized Parliament’s authority to rule without a king. In 1684, the English government revoked the Somers Isles Company’s royal charter and resumed direct administration of the colony. The archipelago became British in 1707 with the creation of Great Britain (the unification of England and Scotland).