Both golfers saw action this Friday, giving disparate performances. While the Talagan man got off to a great start on a new LIV date, the Pirque native fell over 60 spots after round two of the ZOZO Championship.
Different day for the two best golfers in the history of the country. As Joaquín Niemann began his tour of Saudi Arabia on a new LIV Golf date, Mito Pereira had a day to forget in the second round of the ZOZO Championship by nailing a +7 daily card. Luckily for Pirque, the event taking place in Japan has no court.
For Niemann, on the other hand, the feelings are more than positive. After a stage without great performances in Bangkok, the Chilean was again the protagonist at LIV, now in Jeddah. After the first day of the event, he moved into position T16 with a two under par card and a single top ten shot.
The top, however, is still a long way off for the National Olympian, as Brooks Koepka shot eight under par, taking a big advantage over his pursuers. Niemann for his part had five birdies, a bogey and a double bogey. The latter in the first hole of the course.
In this way, the Chilean will have two days to close the gap and fully engage in the fight for the date of the LIV which takes place in Saudi Arabia. After crossing the Middle East, he will only have one date on the calendar, which will take place in Miami.
The myth is collapsing in Japan
For Mito Pereira, the second round of the ZOZO championship will be marked as those days when nothing is going right. The Chilean arrived three under par this Friday and tomorrow he will return to the field with a cumulative +4. Figures that made him fall by more than 60 positions in the general classification.
And it is that since he started on the 10th hole, everything has gone wrong. Bogeys on 10 and 15, then two consecutive double bogeys. A section of nine flags for oblivion, where all aspirations to fight for high positions have collapsed.
The worst thing is that in the other half of the course, things haven’t changed at all either. He added penalties on one and four, only managing to camouflage the picture a bit with a birdie at flag six. In this way, the native of Pirque drops 62 positions and remains at the back of the pack in a tournament which has the particularity of not having a cut for the weekend.
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