Mito Pereira ratifies his good moment and finishes in the top 20 of the CJ Cup

Mito Pereira once again performed well in a PGA Tour tournament. This time it was at the CJ Cup in South Carolina where the Chilean golfer had a flawless day to finish in the top 20 and ratify its great growth in recent seasons. After having done very good previous rounds, he finished his participation in the extension 18, with a total of 276 hits (-8), nine more hits than two-time champion Rory McIlroy.

The start of the round was calm for the pupil of Eduardo Miquel. It wasn’t until the fifth hole that there was excitement, and a good one, since with just two impacts thanks to a remarkable tee shot, he got the first bird. From there until flag 11, all was calm and he only knew pairs with the pitch.

On the 12th hole, Mito once again knocked the shots off the course thanks to a very good second shot, which allowed him to stay very close to the green. There, he had no problem with that. putt keep climbing the board and get excited about something else. However, in the 17th he had a small stumble, since that was where he conceded the only bogey of the day, after getting complicated in the final part and having finished this flag in five times.

Anyway, Mito managed to get out of this bad moment on the last hole, where he knocked from afar to say goodbye with a new birds which left him with a streak of 69 shots (-2), even score of saturday which allowed him to finish in the top 20 and made him one of the good figures of these first three tournaments of the 2022-23 PGA Tour season.

Gustavo Silva was the great figure of the Patagonia Classic which took place in Frutillar this weekend and is part of the six-date qualifying circuit for the Astara Chile Classic. The national golfer won with a comfortable advantage after finishing with 205 strokes (-11), far exceeding Felipe Aguilar (-3) and Agustín Errázuriz (-2).

Silva dominated all three days and had records of -5 and -6 on the first two days which gave him a big advantage heading into Sunday’s final day, when he kept par to win comfortably.

In this way, the winner of the first date remained at the top of the ranking, which will issue two quotas to those who add up the best results in six tournaments. Apart from the Patagonia Classic, the qualifying events These will be the Prince of Wales Country Club Open, Los Leones Open, Santo Domingo Rocks Open, Granadilla Open and La Serena Golf Open.