There are many words to describe this week’s Argentina Open on the Korn Ferry Tour, but pro Martin Trainer chose just three. And those three seem to suffice. Trainer’s words: “Muggy and buggy.” Emphasis on the last one, for now.
The fifth event of the 2024 KFT season takes us more than 4,000 miles south of Jupiter, Fla., down to Buenos Aires, where summer is in full force. Hence, the mugginess. Temperatures in the 80s with high humidity are one thing. Constant storms are a separate, important development.
According to various local reports, specialists believe recent heavy rainfall has led to a proliferation of Aedes Albifasciatus, also known as “flood mosquitoes,” which reproduce in areas where floods have left behind puddles of water. Hence, the bugginess. It’s been so bad this month that multiple reports have quoted Maria Victoria Micieli, a director of the Center for Parasitological Studies, as calling it a “plague mosquito.”
