During the day on Thursday, the Chilean hit a four under par and climbed into the top positions of the tournament being played in Nevada. Tomorrow he will go to the top.
Virtually restless, Mito Pereira kicked off his second season on the PGA Tour. The Chilean returned to the courts after playing in the Presidents Cup at the end of September and added his first accounting round for the 22/23 season. It was at the Shriners Children’s Open in Las Vegas and he closed the day with a four under par card.
Balance sheet reached after a day on Thursday when he started with the American Ryan Armor and the Englishman Matt Wallace. The trio played the first hole at 10:51 a.m. and for the Chilean, the changes didn’t come until well before the round.
And it is that in the first seven flags it has only managed to be matched with the requirement of the TPC Summerlin, a course of 7255 meters and which is played with a Par 71. But on the eighth hole the first applause came. The Pirque native took advantage of a par three to hit a superb tee shot that left him nearly four yards from the flag. From the “fringe” (the area next to the green), he landed a superb shot that scored his first birdie of the day .
A momentum that has been maintained despite the passage from the fourth shortest hole of the course to the second longest. In the par five of the nine flag, he hit a tee shot from 304 yards which, accompanied by an approach that left him 17 yards from the green, allowed him to score a course that ended in a another birdie.
But the applause wouldn’t stop there, as in the 10th he would be discounting again to fully enter the pinnacle of the event taking place in Nevada. It was undoubtedly the best section of the set for the Chilean, who then only managed to birdie again on a flagstick. It was in the 12, where he got a -4 which puts him among the best of the day.
After that, a long stretch where he was only equal to the pack and couldn’t make more snaps, despite his chances on the green. In any case, a more than positive result for the Chilean, who This Friday, he will start in 13th position for the third event which takes place in this new season.
Tomorrow, on the other hand, he will return to the field around four o’clock in the afternoon, in what will be one of the last groups of the day. The cup is almost a fact, tomorrow he will go with the aim of fighting for the lead. The one currently owned by North American Tom Hoge who signed an eight under par card on Thursday.
Other tournament big names will also be competing in the second round. It is Max Homa (-4), Rickie Fowler (-1), Emiliano Grillo (-1) and Sungjae Jim (-1) . Everyone is fighting for a cumulative prize pool of eight million dollars.
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